Ocado Intelligent Automation - Solutions: Pallet Handling and Transportation

Automating pallet handling—including both open and closed CHEP, GMA and EPAL pallets and roll cages—significantly enhances warehouse operations by improving safety, streamlining workflows, and minimizing dependence on manual labor.

Our pallet handling solution automates and optimizes stock movement, depalletizing and putaway processes. By replacing repetitive manual processes with intelligent automation, businesses can mitigate labor shortages, enhance employee safety, and ensure smoother operational flow.

Autonomous pallet handling also minimizes the risk of injury associated with heavy lifting and improves throughput by enabling more efficient, consistent pallet moving operations.

Whether managing goods-in, internal transfers, or dispatch buffering, the right robotic system—in tandem with sophisticated AI—will deliver a reliable, scalable solution that adapts to fluctuating demand and reduces operational bottlenecks to keep you competitive in today's dynamic market.

Receiving and Dispatch

Automating the handling of palletized stock as it enters and leaves the warehouse promises huge efficiency gains, reduced errors and optimized routing workflows.

Inbound automation streamlines processes like receiving, unloading, quality checks, and putaway, while outbound automation optimizes picking, packing, and buffering for dispatch.

Cross-Docking

Cross-docking is a logistics strategy that bypasses traditional storage by transferring goods directly from incoming shipments to outbound transportation.

Highly suited to palletized stock that will remain palletized throughout its journey, this approach minimizes storage time and accelerates the flow of products from suppliers to customers.

By eliminating unnecessary handling and delays, cross-docking enhances supply chain efficiency, reducing costs and ensuring faster delivery to the end destination.

Point-to-Point Moves

Point-to-Point moving focuses on transporting goods or pallets efficiently across the warehouse, for example from an inbound dock to a putaway location.

Pallet moving AMRs such as Porter are ideal A-B movers, helping to minimize manual handling, streamline operations, and increase throughput, supporting just-in-time workflows and agile supply chain demands.

Solutions

Key Benefits

Improved Throughput

Automating pallet operations with OIA accelerates pallet movement, reducing delays and optimizing flow across storage, picking, and dispatch zones. Faster pallet handling reduces bottlenecks at outbound shipping areas.

Enhanced Safety

Reduces manual handling of heavy loads, minimizing workplace injuries and improving compliance with safety standards. Working alongside staff, automated pallet handling systems handle all the heavy lifting.

Labor Optimization

Reduces dependence on manual labor, mitigating workforce challenges such as turnover, shortages, and rising wages and recruitment to meet seasonal demand spikes.

Scalable Operations

Automating pallet handling ensures reliable and consistent processing, even as throughput, stock volumes and business needs fluctuate. Retailers and customers benefit from consistent product availability, even during peak seasons.

Precision & Accuracy

Pallet automation reduces errors and speeds up processing, improving downstream order fulfillment. Intelligent systems ensure pallets are handled with consistent accuracy, minimizing product damage and inventory errors.

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Solutions

Pallet Handling and Transportation

Automating pallet handling—including both open and closed CHEP, GMA and EPAL pallets and roll cages—significantly enhances warehouse operations by improving safety, streamlining workflows, and minimizing dependence on manual labor.

Types of Pallet Handling Applications

Receiving and Dispatch

Cross-Docking

Point-to-Point Moves

Key Benefits

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