evo doubles productivity in time for peak season

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Sports gear and apparel retailer doubled productivity by equipping workers with AMRs

evo, with the guidance of Körber, determined that a brownfield deployment would best meet the company’s needs during a time of fast growth. 

“When we know that there isn’t room for physical reconstruction when we have a tight timeline, and we need to get more out the door, there’s absolutely no better option than going with a collaborative, in-aisle robot solution,” said Peter Lagow, Presales Consultant on the Körber team. 

Locus deployed 10 robots initially into the facility. The implementation was led by Körber, completed just 53 days from the signing of the contract and just in time for peak. “There was definitely a lot of work on the Körber side, there was a lot of work on the Locus side, but they made it easy for us so the implementation went really smoothly, and the go-live went really smoothly as well,” said Earle. 

Workers that were picking an average of 35 units per hour (UPH) with manual carts started picking an average of 90 UPH with LocusBots, some workers topping 125 UPH. 

During peak, evo rents 7 additional robots to support higher volumes at the facility and return the robots when demand returns to normal levels. The team found that 5 workers collaborating with AMRs are picking more tasks than 10-15 workers did in the past using manual cart-based picking methods. 

“In the future we hope to find additional uses [for the solution]. We see opportunity in directed putaway as well as transporting goods from one part of the warehouse to another,” said Earle