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ACME
Order Picking solutions suited for the Middle East
A host of issues and developments—globalization, pandemic-related business disruptions, rapidly evolving customer expectations and the quick shift into e-commerce have reinforced the need for SME’s in the region to be more agile, accurate and economic in the way they handle intralogistics and order fulfillments. The immediate need therefore for efficient, automated warehouse and distribution solutions has never been so critical or dire—Editor.
Since the onset of the pandemic, e-commerce sales have skyrocketed and put a substantial pressure on warehouse operators. Inventory requirements as well as lead times have increased, new safety guidelines and a lack of space has severely impacted businesses and have prevented them from satisfying customer needs efficiently.
In order to successfully navigate complex warehouse challenges, ACME understands that the intralogistics infrastructures of businesses need to be flexible, scalable and yet provide quick ROI.
ACME with its partners Kardex Remstar and Optimus Sorters brings a wide range of solutions to the region that addresses these needs.
The solutions provided assist in the following four key areas:
• Partial Automation. • Scalability. • Improved material flow. • Easy adaption to existing warehouse racking infrastructure.
Kardex Remstar Vertical Buffer Module LR35 with ‘Frame Pick’ picking solution
The stand-alone modular Kardex LR35 stores and picks small parts quickly and efficiently and can be easily connected to existing multilevel shelving systems that a customer has already within his facility. ACME’s solution design team can design a flexible solution incorporating the LR35 within existing warehouses without the need for purpose-built warehouses.
Key benefits of Kardex LR 35
• Easy adaption within existing warehouse infrastructure such as multilevel shelving. • Flexible system that can be configured with multiple options and several access openings. • Provides for 99.9% pick accuracy and increased operator performance.
The LR35 in combination with the Frame Pick Solution flawlessly manages a wide range of goods, numerous order lines and fluctuating order demands. The Frame Pick solution substantially reduces labour costs, helps with quick manpower on-boarding with limited training requirements as well as reduces searching and travel time between aisles.
Based on the product types and nature of business, the team at ACME can configure multiple units of LR35 in series, limiting walking distance to within 12 metres.
Kardex Remstar Shuttle XP with flexible picking solutions
The Kardex Shuttle XP stores a wide range of goods allowing access to various weights and sizes while substantially reducing space and manpower requirements.
Key benefits of Kardex Shuttle XP
• 99.9% pick accuracy, 67% manpower reduction, 85% floor space savings. • Ideal for managing wide range of products and can be configured with lower travel speeds for sensitive articles. • Highly expandable and scalable.
Colour picking using Shuttle XP
Colour picking adds coloured lights into the batch picking process allowing multiple operators to pick within one work zone. The Shuttle XP along with colour picking is highly economical and provides an ROI in less than two years.
It also provides for the physical distancing requirements mandated in current times and is ideal for managing fluctuating, unpredictable demands that is common to businesses in the Middle East.
Display LED Picking assistant for the Shuttle XP
The display LED-Navigator for the Shuttle XP works as a picking assistance system that provides event related information to the operator at the exact moment and thereby increasing picking performance and substantially increasing picking accuracy.
Optimus Sortation Solutions
ACME brings Optimus Sorter solutions to the Middle East. The OptiSorter is designed for sorting a large range of different products. The OptiSorter is capable of sorting products such as garments, shoes, accessories, post, multimedia, cartons, jiffy bags and more.
Key benefits of OptiSorter
• Can reach capacities up to 15,000 trays per hour. • ACME can design various layouts such as carousel, vertical, multi-level depending on existing warehouse layout. • The OptiSorter solution can be designed with various accessories such as destination lights and displays, automated scanning as well as manual and automatic in-feed. • Highly modular.
With a large experienced design and implementation team based in Dubai, ACME is able to provide optimized and tailored solutions with a quick turnaround time that are designed with the needs of the Middle East logistics market in mind.
With a large experienced design and implementation team based in Dubai, ACME is able to provide optimized and tailored solutions, with a quick turnaround time, that are designed with the needs of the Middle East logistics market in mind.
ACME Intralog partners with Kardex Remstar Move to ease pressure on regional warehouse operators
As demand from e-commerce sector continues to grow, regional warehouse operators are under substantial pressure due to sudden demand for increased inventory space and lead time.
To help them boost productivity and navigate complex warehouse challenges, ACME has partnered with Kardex Remstar to provide solutions to assist in improving warehouse operations by partial automation using scalable solutions that provide for improved material flow and can be easily adapted to existing warehouse racking infrastructure, a recent press communiqué indicated.
ACME’s solution-design team can design flexible warehousing systems using Kardex’s solutions for storing and retrieving items. This system significantly improves productivity and reduces energy consumption, whether being used to supply a production line with a wide range of products, as buffer storage in the assembly area, or for picking slow-moving parts in the distribution warehouse.
These solutions are perfect for companies in e-commerce, spare parts, pharma distributors, and midsize companies that are looking to consolidate warehouse operations and looking to reduce real estate and manpower costs.
“With our partnership with Kardex, we can provide warehousing solutions that help to increase picking speed and reduce the storage area footprint through multilevel shelving,” commented Navin Narayan, FounderCEO, ACME Intralog.
“These solutions substantially reduce labour costs, helps with quick manpower on-boarding with reduced training requirements and substantially reduces searching and travel time between aisles,” he added.
To meet the increasing demand, UAE-headquartered ACME, which completed 45 years of operations this year, is planning to expand into Saudi Arabia this year. By the end of 2020, ACME also intends to open a sales and services office in Germany to bring them closer to their customers in the EU. n
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