First step toward automation has been taken

Today we launched the first version of our updated packing system.
Immediately, this is also the first of three concrete steps we want to take toward full automation of our fulfillment warehouse by early 2020.
Earlier this year, forecasts for ShopWeDo predicted a doubling in shipments.
Keeping this in mind, we chose to focus and quietly work on a number of innovations within our warehouse this year. The automated packing line was an investment necessary to keep up with our growth.
It allows us to significantly reduce the labor of shipping so that longer and more orders can be picked.
With an increasingly later cut-off, this was very important.
We also continued to modernize at the in-store.
Each item was already weighed and photographed in the past, but now it is also volumetrically scanned with a special machine.
This master data is then carefully tracked per article and used for optimizations in stocking, packaging and shipping. Our flagship product remains our own WMS software but this year it has gotten a lot smarter.
For example, it is now completely location-independent.
This was necessary since we now work from three different warehouses.
We would like to continue this decentralized approach.
This allows us to provide other specialized services in certain warehouses.
Currently we split B2C and B2B customers over two warehouses.
In ODTH First Class Logistics we have found the perfect partner to realize this.
Improved stock management should ensure that the chance of stock discrepancies is reduced a little.
And other ways of stocking will also be possible.
Until now, the storage of goods was mainly focused on boxes in racks and pallet locations, but soon you will also be able to pay for your storage per day per m³.
There will also be a visual update of our online platform in 2019.
A number of processes have been rethought and simplified which will ensure that our online tool will become a lot easier.
Our team has also been expanded.
After hiring an experienced warehouse manager, Joke Feyen (Customer Service) and Veerle Vander Sande have now been added.
The latter is an experienced sales representative coming over from Postnl to work as Sales Manager. Last but not least: We have an app! With our smartphone app, we want to be in your pocket with our on-demand warehousing and fulfillment!
This way you can easily follow how your fulfillment is going with us in real time and in turn we can quickly notify you if something goes wrong or if we need input from you. Download it now in the App store. Curious about our innovations?
Would you like to talk about a possible cooperation? Get in touch we would love to help you further.