Footwear & Apparel
Sizes, colours and collections give a footwear and apparel operation a huge range that turns over fast, with store replenishment and online orders drawing on the same stock. Automation has to keep up with the range as well as the volume.
What Footwear & Apparel operations need from automation
A range that never sits still
Sizes, colours and collections change constantly, and orders arrive small and scattered across the range.
Stores and online from one stock
Store-ready replenishment and e-commerce orders need serving from the same inventory.
Returns back on sale quickly
Returned items have to be back in sellable stock inside the selling window.
Growth in uneven steps
Capacity has to be added season by season without rebuilding the warehouse.
How we approach it
Goods-to-person picking brings every size and colour to one operator, so a fragmented order no longer means walking the range. The software groups and sequences orders, which is what lets store replenishment and online orders run from one inventory without one starving the other.
For a fast-growing range in an existing building we usually start with HaiPick Climb, because it goes in with little floor preparation and grows by adding robots and racking. Denser sites look at HaiPick System 3.
Configurations we would look at first
A first read. The facility assessment decides which one your order profile and building actually suit.
Figures on the cards are Hai Robotics' published specifications.
Other industries
Numbers don't lie.
Your data will prove it.
We model your business case from your own order profile, SKU count and peak volumes, not generic benchmarks. If the numbers stack, we'll show you exactly how.