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Industry Solutions | Enotek Group’s Intelligent Logistics Solution Helps the E-Commerce Retail Industry to Improve the Efficiency of Warehouse Delivery and Realize Operation Automation

Nov 02,2022

Summary

The client of this project is a well-known journal brand in China. It has been established for more than 16 years. It has a broad audience base in the fields of humanities, social sciences and philosophy. In 2020, sales of one of its journals has reached more than one million in two days.

The client of this project is a well-known journal brand in China. It has been established for more than 16 years. It has a broad audience base in the fields of humanities, social sciences and philosophy. In 2020, sales of one of its journals has reached more than one million in two days.

 

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It has always been the dream of the brand founder to have an intelligent logistics warehousing system with high degree of automation and strong integration, which is hard to achieve because of its high cost.

 

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In the early stage of the project, after deeply understanding the actual site and business requirements of clients, Enotek Group creatively brought the design thinking of industrial pull system into the TOB/TOC business of new retail e-commerce, combining the principle of water storage with the design of flow balance, and efficiently implementing intelligent hardware such as annular MINI LOAD, AMR, goods-to-people workstation, light-picking and replenishment of displaced shelves, transportation and sorting system, etc., which achieved the collection, putting, order fulfillment and goods-to-people under wave conditions.

 

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It is worth mentioning that the project has also set up an experiential bulletin board, where readers can see the whole process of the new book delivery through the glass wall at the experience exhibition area.

 

The project's design not only greatly improved the client's order processing capacity, but also won the favor of the judges and experts from the LT China Logistics Technology Award, and won the 10th LT China Logistics Technology Innovation and Application Award.

 

PROJECT DIFFICULTIES

 

1.     There is no precedent in the same industry of automated distribution centers in China.

2.     Book industry is a low profit industry. How to achieve less input and more output is a problem need to be solved.

3.     How can flexible design cover business development in the next few years and adapt to order changes and timeliness.

 

SYSTEM EQUIPMENT

 

Enotek Group provides clients with a full link logistics solution from warehousing, storage and delivery.

 

1.     19 AMR "goods-to-people" sorting systems, with a total of 198 bins and shelves.

2.     360° Miniload temporary storage system with 1 robotic arm, 780 bins storage space in total.

3.     1 set of WMS warehouse management system, 1 set of WCS warehouse control system, 1 set of sorting system, 1 set of online weighing and conveying distribution system.

4.     1,065 pallet storage locations, 155 meters double deck box conveying system, 4 goods to people picking workstations.

 

KEY POINTS

 

1.     Low piece to piece ratio, the combination of fully automatic goods to people picking, conveying sorting, and stray light picking is used underground in the limited field to replace the traditional manual picking and sorting. Improve picking efficiency and timely fulfillment rate of orders to ensure timeliness of delivery.

2.     Accelerate inventory turnover and meet the increasing demand for 2B and 2C orders.

3.     There is a big difference on the daily average data and peak fluctuation data, and the daily SKU changes are basically irregular. How to ensure the demand for order fulfillment is a problem need to be solved.

 

DELIVERY CENTER PROCESS

 

1.     Picking Process

AMR transports the material rack to the picking workstation according to the system picking task, pickers pick up the goods from the material rack and scans the code, the light on the put wall prompts the manual delivery location and quantity, and the AMR returns to the reservoir area after the current material rack picking is completed.

 

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2.     Replenishment Process

When the goods arrive at the warehouse to a certain quantity, the system will pull to replenish the goods. Workers take the full container of goods from the high rack and transport them to the replenishment workstation. The full container of goods will be manually replenished to the material rack and bound to the warehouse location and goods. After the current material rack is replenished, the system will scan the ground barcode and call AMR to transport the material rack back to the warehouse.

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3.     Buffering, packaging and sorting process

If the backlog of the conveyor line is up to the set quantity, the full container will enter the annular Miniload warehouse from the conveyor line for buffering. After the backlog of the conveyor line is reduced, the full container will leave the warehouse from the annular Miniload warehouse to the recheck packing table. After the completion of the packaging review task, the parcels will be sorted by the express company and finally loaded and delivered by the online weighing and conveying sorter.

 

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PROJECT ACHIEVEMENTS

1.     The first book industry intelligent logistics system case in China won the China Logistics Technology Innovation Application Award for its unique design.

 

2.     Greatly improved storage space utilization and delivery efficiency.

 

3.     The scalability of each link is fully reserved in the planning and design. During the peak promotion period, only some equipment needs to be supplemented to expand the overall efficiency.

 

In addition to the intelligent hardware and software equipment, the integrity and framework design capabilities of the intelligent logistics system often directly determine the overall quality of the project and the client experience. As a full link industrial intelligent logistics solution provider, Enotek Group deeply empowers the e-commerce retail industry using pull system. Through in-depth understanding of client needs and actual use scenarios, Enotek has created a reliable, efficient and stable intelligent logistics system.