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Warehouse operators are grappling with increasing complexity, even as the logistics and supply chain industry is under increased pressure to deliver more quickly, noted Dexory. The company today introduced its new DexoryView Optimisation module, which adds functionality to its DexoryView suite.
Dexory said the new module uses the data collected by its autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) plus existing warehouse management system (WMS) input to enhance the flow of goods, staff movement, and space utilization.
“The warehousing industry doesn’t just need more data; it needs smarter and faster ways to act on it,” stated Andrei Danescu, co-founder and CEO of Dexory. “The DexoryView Optimisation module has been designed and developed to allow warehouses to achieve optimal efficiency, move faster and scale smarter, whilst not adding complexity to operations.”
Dexory said it captures real-time insights into warehouse operations with AMRs and artificial intelligence. The Wallingford, U.K.-based company said its systems can provide insights through every stage of the product journey through dispatch, improving business performance.
DexoryView Optimisation applies enhanced visibility
Introduced to the market in 2023, DexoryView combines robotics, digital twins, and AI to understand, analyze, and manage warehouse operations. For businesses in increasingly complex and competitive markets, DexoryView offers them full visibility of their operations, said Dexory.
The company recently announced its DexoryView Integrity module, which provides a real-time state of warehouse operations from daily data captures. The DexoryView Optimisation module can help operators meet increasing demand with precision and speed, it said.
With the DexoryView Integrity and Optimisation modules, businesses can now determine the most congested areas of the warehouse, enhance fulfillment capacity, and improve space utilization, explained Dexory. The modules also ensure continuous throughput for picking and put-away activities and eliminate the need for manual slotting audits, according to the company.
Dexory describes features to drive business value
The DexoryView Optimisation module has been designed to enhance on-time, in-full (OTIF) performance, simplify compliance audits, and mitigate safety risks. Dexory said its close partnerships with customers enabled it to develop a system to help maximize long-term growth and customer loyalty through consistent order accuracy and timely fulfilment.
The company listed five key features designed to solve fundamental warehouse challenges:
- Outbound optimizer: This tool evaluates inventory velocity, ensuring fast-moving items are placed in accessible locations while slower-moving items are strategically positioned. Dexory said this results in reduced retrieval times, enhanced OTIF delivery, and improved operational efficiency.
- Slotting verification: Ensuring compliance with slotting rules and handling requirements, this feature maintains accurate item placement, minimizing risks, simplifying audits, and boosting regulatory compliance.
- Consolidation planner: By identifying opportunities to group compatible items, the consolidation planner reduces wasted space, reduces unproductive travel, and optimizes space utilization while maintaining product integrity. This allows businesses to cut manual stock grouping time by 70%, claimed Dexory.
- Replenishment optimizer: With a visual map of pick and reserve locations, this feature refines replenishment strategies, shortening delays and ensuring stock availability to enhance customer satisfaction. In early trial sites, this has resulted in 20% faster replenishment cycles, the company asserted.
- Congestion analysis: Pinpointing high-traffic zones and bottlenecks, this tool provides actionable recommendations for layout adjustments, reducing delays, improving safety, and ensuring a smoother operational flow.
Optimized warehouses can face challenges head-on
The accelerating pace of supply chains has brought unprecedented hurdles, including rising costs, inventory mismanagement, and operational bottlenecks, noted Dexory. Poorly optimized goods placement and order fulfillment can result in ineffective use of human resources, customer dissatisfaction, and missed opportunities to grow profit margins, it added.
Dexory said one customer was able to uncover $174,000 worth of misplaced goods in just two weeks. With AI-driven data insights and visibility, businesses can regain operational control and remain competitive in an ever changing landscape, it said.
Customers such as Yusen Logistics have been testing the new module and have seen improvements they can make to reduce warehouse congestion and ensure goods are optimally positioned.
“For businesses such as ours, we need to provide up-to-date accuracy of goods to our customers,” said Lukasz Winiecki, inventory manager at Yusen Logistics. “With the optimization features, we are able to gain efficiencies in space utilization. The new features allow us to further improve our performance and remove the need for us to manually look for opportunities to better optimize our warehouse.”
Earlier this month, Dexory said its system successfully completed a pilot program at a GXO Logistics facility in the Netherlands.
The DexoryView Optimisation module is available today, and Dexory is exhibiting at Booth N6022 at ProMat in Chicago this week.