Attabotics today added AI-orchestrated fulfillment to its technology lineup. It said the field-tested software algorithm, called FulfillAI, offers a novel approach to automated fulfillment.
The system is especially geared toward retailers with in-store and wholesale distribution challenges seeking faster fulfillment in combination with increases in capacity.
“Field testing over the past year has yielded a 5.4x increase in picking throughput over manual picking, with an 80% drop in labor dependency and a bump in accuracy to 99.9%,” stated Scott Gravelle, the CEO of Attabotics. “What’s more, Fulfill AI has raised the capacity of our test client’s fulfillment operation such that the company was able to more than double the size of its business without scaling its fulfillment technology in any way.”
FulfillAI designed for faster fulfillment
Typically, automation providers pursue faster fulfillment by raising machine rates. However, systems are often already running at near capacity, leaving little room for improvement. Instead, this puts constraints on the business by maxing out machine capacity. This puts greater strain on associated labor, equipment, and resources.
With FulfillAI, Attabotics said it seeks to change that dynamic by reconfiguring the retail distribution process. Making changes from start to finish allows the Calgary, Alberta-based company to increase efficiency across warehouses.
FulfillAI uses a many-to-many picking process versus the one-to-one picking method used by most automation providers today. Many-to-many picking allows warehouse workers to move beyond picking one SKU for one order at a time. Instead, they can fill multiple lines for multiple orders with multiple units of multiple SKUs in a single machine presentation.
This lowers machine rates and, in doing so, triggers an across-the-board bump in capacity for all associated fulfillment functions. This gives the systems the capacity to take on new growth.
Attabotics added that its technology makes warehouse workers more productive, needs fewer robots to get the same work done, and consumes fewer resources to do the same work as before.
Attabotics says automation benefits smaller operations
The level of processing sophistication that FulfillAI brings to smaller operations is typically reserved for enterprise-level fulfillment systems, said Attabotics. Artificial intelligence democratizes that sophistication for smaller operations at a fraction of the cost of enterprise operations, the company claimed.
For instance, Modern Beauty a leading beauty supply distributor in Canada, selling hair-care products across the country to salons, spas, and barbershops. It currently has 65 store locations and 125 business consultants that serve the beauty industry.
Modern Beauty serves its customers, stores, and distributors through two warehouses — one in
Calgary and one in Mississauga, Ontario.
“We’re definitely more confident in the go-forward strategy of our organization, and we’ve been able to grow with the Attabotics system,” noted Amer Jomaa, CEO of Modern Beauty. “We acquired a few organizations over the last two years and are able to keep up with the demand and the growth while maintaining the exact same staff with twice the volume.”
Attabotics’ fulfillment system includes an automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS), robots that can access bins from all four sides, a built-in sortation system, inventory-replenishment stations, goods-to-person (G2P) stations, put-to-light technology, and fulfillment software.
Attabotics will be showing its technology this week at ProMat 2025 in Booth E10924.