Your warehouse is an important part of your customers’ buying experience.
To provide excellent customer service in a fast-paced industry, it is important to ensure warehouses have the necessary stocks beforehand to get the products to the customer at the right time.
Why is warehousing important?
- It is the central location between storing, receiving, and dispatching goods to the end-user.
- Secured storing of goods and better inventory management
- Reduce shipping costs by delivering goods as a whole rather than one by one.
- Store goods that can go out of season and resell surplus goods when in demand.
- It is like an insurance policy that your goods will be well kept in the condition that it needs to.
The use of Robotics in Warehousing
The first robots introduced to the supply chain were seen in manufacturing. The first robotics patent was filed in 1954 by George Devol which was granted in 1961. The first industrial robot was created by his company, Unimation in 1956. The first introduced robot was only able to move material about dozen feet.
Robotics arms that could be operated using programming were the first use case of robotics in the supply chain.
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