Store Based
Automation
Advanced grocery automation
from a store location
Serve Pick Up And Ultra Fast Shopping Missions Flawlessly
Store Based Automation enables an exceptional experience for local fulfillment: fresh, accurate orders from a wide range, served with a short lead time — without impacting the in-store shopper experience.
Customers don’t have to compromise on range or quality for the sake of speed, whether they’re collecting in person or receiving a local delivery.
Maximize Store Productivity And Capacity
Repurpose existing store estate and resources to serve online orders rapidly and economically. By running both online and offline operations in distinct areas within the same site, Store Based Automation drives new efficiencies without the high overheads of setting up an entirely new operation.
Integration and a simple handover with last mile (whether owned or third party) facilitates a slicker experience, both for your business and your customers.
Scale Online Profitably
Drive customer acquisition and grow online volumes with a reduced cost to serve through improved productivity. Our automated fulfilment technology achieves market leading pick rates and minimal purge.
On-Grid Robotic Pick
A robotic arm that automatically picks and packs products, reducing the labour requirement by as much as 50%, whilst maintaining consistency, accuracy and availability.
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Software
Orchestration across all store operations and processes — from store pick, replenishment and inventory management to reporting and management tools — to support the smooth and efficient running of online grocery.
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A team of high speed, high productivity bots that fetch, drop off and store totes with inventory, to be picked either manually or robotically.
The Grid
An ultra dense, flexible and modular structure designed to secure and store inventory across different temperature zones. Orders are picked, consolidated, sequenced and buffered within the Grid, which extends capacity and throughput per square metre. Store and serve up to 20,000 SKUs in addition to the existing store range, all within a single site.
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Collection Points
Outloaded directly from the Grid, customers or last mile operators can pick up orders without having to enter the store.
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With Your Business
Store Based Automation is perfect for businesses with high levels of customer pick up direct from store as well as on-demand and ultra short lead time delivery services.
It can be integrated into the broader fulfillment strategy, customized to a retailer's specific market dynamics and ambitions.
It can operate standalone or as part of a networked micro fulfillment model together with Ocado’s Customer Fulfillment Centers.
