E-Grocery

Make e-grocery
profitable

Improve profitability and offer customers better prices by reducing your fulfillment costs

Easily automate order picking, consolidation and dispatch using our AI warehouse robots

Why e-Grocers need automation

Common challenges for e-grocers

Lack of profitability in online sales High picking and last mile costs hurt profitability
Demanding customers Demands for faster delivery, added convenience and more delivery slots during peak hours
Complex supply chain High volumes and multiple picking zones increase operational complexity
Expensive labor Poor availability and high cost of warehouse labor limits growth and profitability
High error rates Picking errors reduce customer satisfaction

How Brightpick helps

Minimizes labor requirements
Cuts fulfillment costs
Eliminates human picking errors
Speeds up order picking
Increases volumes without adding footprint
Increases customer and employee satisfaction
Enables easy scalability and more shifts

79%

of grocers rate “Improve picking efficiency” as their #1 profitability lever

How it works:

Case study

Knuspr buffers and dispatches orders using Brightpick robots

Knuspr is one of Germany’s fastest-growing e-grocers.

The company has large average order sizes consisting of dozens of items per order. Its Munich fulfillment center holds more than 15,000 SKUs and has multiple picking zones to accommodate different types of products.

Knuspr was looking for a flexible robotic solution to automate the post-pick order buffer, consolidation and dispatch process.

With Brightpick, Knuspr was able to:

Dispatch 20% more orders during peak hours
Reduce labor for order consolidation and buffer to zero
Extend warehouse operations to 20 hours per day
Eliminate human errors from the dispatch process

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“ We needed automation to make our operation more efficient, stable and scalable. We selected Brightpick because of the fast design and installation time, stable and high-performing product and robot-as-a-service pricing model. ”

Ales Malucha
Chief Automation Officer at Rohlik Group

Impact

How will Brightpick
make my job easier?

Executive Leadership

Achieve profitability in your e-grocery business by reducing picking and fulfillment costs
Improve customer satisfaction by delivering orders faster and offering more slots during peak hours
Protect brand reputation by eliminating human errors from your operation
Easily scale volumes without heavy upfront investment
Reduce business risk and scale gradually with the market

Director of Operations

Meet and exceed KPIs and reduce performance variability in your operations
Reduce operating costs by optimizing labor spend, increasing productivity, and eliminating human errors
Deploy automation in weeks with minimal risk to your ongoing operations
Strategize, plan, execute with more stability and predictability in your operations

Supply Chain Manager

Smooth out intraday peaks by picking and buffering orders in advance
Get work done faster with fewer human touches, higher accuracy, and increased throughput
Increase capacity without having to grow your workforce
Easily extend your operating hours to ship more orders each day
Improve employee morale by simplifying the workload and upskilling your associates
Improve workplace safety by reducing physical strain and enhancing workplace ergonomics

Continuous Improvement

Quickly deploy automation that can be installed and operational in weeks
Easily integrate the automation with your existing WMS or ERP
Modular, scalable, flexible design enables you to deploy in various-sized warehouses, single or multi-levels, greenfields and brownfields

Ecommerce Manager

Improve customer experience by always delivering your orders accurately and on time
Offer customers more delivery slots during peak hours by increasing capacity

Warehouse Associate

Say goodbye to long walks by letting Brightpick Autopickers pick the items for you
Reduce physical strain with improved workplace ergonomics
Accelerate your career by working directly with innovative technology
Go home on time knowing the work is complete with the help of Brightpick Autopickers

ROI

Fast payback, immediate results

Our customers achieve ROI in as little as 1-2 years. By reducing labor needs to a minimum and eliminating human errors, you can realize large cost savings and boost your margins. Using our robots, you will speed up your fulfillment, improve customer and employee satisfaction, and reduce risk in your operations.

In some cases, Brightpick robots can be rented via a robots-as-a-service (RaaS) model instead of being purchased outright. Speak to our sales team to see if you qualify for this.

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