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Autonomous Retail Systems (ARS) – Allowing the possible to do the impossible creates a new reality – expanding sales channels

Today, when many people think of autonomy or automation in retail and logistics, they immediately think of job destruction, robotics, zero service, no people at the checkout, cold and desolation.

Issues like urbanization scare some people. You live in it and yet you can't talk about it. Even if there are opportunities for the better, one longs for the apparent security. Everything should stay as it is right now. Out of insecurity or comfort. What is certain is that nothing is certain. Not even that.

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• Autonomous Retail Systems (ARS)

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What will be crucial for the future will be how we secure the infrastructure of our key industries!

Key industries in Germany today include the automotive industry, construction industry, food, chemical industry, electrical industry, energy production, mechanical engineering and shipyards.

If we want to maintain the standards of our key industries, including human resources, and further expand them for the future, then we actually have to do a lot more. It's not just about us, but also about the environment and nature, for us and our descendants.

On the one hand, the gaps in basic services in rural regions must be closed again, and on the other hand, urbanization also has the highest priority, taking the above-mentioned aspects into account.

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• Digitalization as a driving force and logistics as a key component

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There are around 50,000 general stores, so-called konbinis, in Japan. The most famous are FamilyMart, Laswson, 7-Eleven, New Days and Ministop. The largest of them is 7-Eleven with over 50,000 employees and a turnover of 35 billion euros.

Konbinis vs. food retailers: Konbinis are so-called convenience shops, a form of retail operation and a type of neighborhood store, mini market and general goods store. Also known as a corner shop in Germany and Switzerland. In Austria it is the Greißler and is often also referred to as Greißlerei.

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• Logistics centers – microfulfillment – ​​konbinis – convenience shops – dark stores

Horizontal carousel warehouses ideal for start-ups and small to medium-sized e-commerce companies – Image: Xpert.Digital / SpeedKingz|Shutterstock.com

The horizontal carousel warehouse is a dynamic circulation warehouse. If there is a lack of upward space because the ceiling of the warehouse is very low, but it goes deep into the room on a horizontal level, a horizontal circulation warehouse is the ideal storage solution for automating warehouse logistics.

The switch from mechanical storage systems to automated to fully automated storage solutions is a major challenge of intralogistics 4.0.

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• Automation in horizontal storage for logistics managers and warehouse managers

Smart Logistics – Reach your destination faster with smart logistics – Image: Xpert.Digital & elenabsl|Shutterstock.com

When it comes to maintaining efficient processes in the warehouse during growth phases, e-commerce startups quickly reach their logistical limits. The reasons for this are usually the lack of experience in handling the increased quantities and an internal warehouse management infrastructure that is only inadequately prepared for the growing requirements. This article shows that this does not have to be the case.

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• Smart Logistics: Intelligent logistics solutions for small e-shops & start-ups

Pharmaceutical logistics – special area of ​​logistics and intralogistics – Image: Xpert.Digital / paulista|Shutterstock.com

Not all logistics are the same. This becomes particularly clear when considering the many transport and storage requirements of pharmaceutical products. After all, a temperature-sensitive serum has completely different requirements than, for example, a painkiller. In addition, no other globally operating industry is confronted with such different national requirements for manufacturing and sales as the pharmaceutical industry.

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• Pharmaceutical logistics – A lot of effort for sensitive substances

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Thanks to innovative control software and automated, networked systems, today's digitalized working world offers sufficient potential for constantly optimizing the situation in the warehouse. After all, what use is the best and most modern warehouse if the processes behind it don't work?

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• If SEO is the choice, warehouse optimization is the must
• Warehouse optimization with order picking: 5 steps to more productivity with optimized order picking

Another option for warehouse optimization is to build and expand a buffer warehouse. Buffer warehouses are there to secure supplies when there may be bottlenecks, such as: B. during the corona pandemic.

The advantages of efficient warehouse management, especially in e-commerce, are as follows:

• More productivity in the warehouse leads to better competitiveness
• Lower costs due to reduced personnel requirements, higher utilization of available space and resource-saving operation of the systems
• High customer satisfaction through fast and precise delivery and shipping
• Optimum utilization of space due to highly compressed storage
• Overview & safety thanks to modern software control
• Scalability & flexibility through modularly expandable storage systems

Digital Pioneer Xpert.Digital

Digitalization as the driving force, logistics as the key component. What will be crucial for the future will be how we secure the infrastructure of our key industries!

It started in 1988 with application-oriented knowledge processing, which dealt, among other things, with AI.

Industry development : From testing machines and test systems to logistics/intralogistics and the photovoltaics industry, we developed further.

Digital Pioneer The development extends from the beginnings of search engine optimization (SEO), to the first content management systems (CMS) to social media with projects totaling over 17 million followers see Social Media PDF Library ).

Xpert.Digital is a hub for industry, with a focus on digitalization, mechanical engineering, logistics/intralogistics and photovoltaics. With our 360° business development solution, we support well-known companies from new business to after sales, market intelligence and smarketing are part of our digital tools.

Over the decades we have developed comprehensive know-how in the areas of smart grid/city/factory, photovoltaics and logistics/intralogistics. With the EU's Green Deal , the solar requirement for new buildings and the autonomous power supply ( see CO2 tax ), we can present ourselves to you as a partner and a sustainably grown company that doesn't just jump on this bandwagon because of the latest headlines.

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