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The Future of Logistics in Clothing Warehouse
The clothing warehouse market size is estimated at USD 138.62 billion in 2024 and is expected to reach USD 191.35 billion by 2029, growing at a CAGR of 6.66% during the forecast period (2024-2029).
The clothing warehouse world is rapidly changing, and one does not just focus on becoming better and faster and more efficient.
With the booming e-commerce and consumers craving faster deliveries, that is when brands will have to rethink their supply chain management. Technology is evolving with AI-powered systems, robotics, and real-time tracking all of which help make the world run smoother and faster.
The use of robots in clothing warehouses to automate inventory or speed up picking and packing promises an innovative future. But the major question is: how will apparel companies adapt to stay ahead?
Read through the blog to understand several key challenges and automation solutions for clothing warehouses, making the logistics and warehousing sector a game changer!
Key Challenges in Clothing Warehouse
Seasonal and Demand Fluctuations: Demand for apparel varies from season to season, from holiday season to trends-they all make the scope of prediction and efficient management of stock levels difficult.
Complicated Varieties of Products: The diversity of sizes, colors, and styles in clothes contributes to the complexity of inventory tracking, order picking, and storage.
Challenges in Inventory Management: Inaccurate forecasting can lead to either product loss or overstocking. Eventually, this can result in lost sales or incur costs associated with maintaining excess stock.
Return Management: The nature of high returns in apparel translates into lengthy, complex processing, restocking, and quality control beyond meaning additional cost and labour.
Shortages of Labour and Inefficiencies: Skill shortages and poor flow of labour can bring about delayed processing, higher cost of operations, and poor levels of service.
Large numbers of SKUs: Managing large numbers of SKUs requires very sophisticated systems and processes to ensure responsiveness and minimize bottlenecks in order fulfillment.
Landmark’s Automated E-Commerce Fulfillment Centre
Situation: The e-commerce fulfillment center of Landmark Group in Kuwait suffers from inefficiencies – a wide range of products, an inefficient picking process, high time to fulfill orders, and inundated operational costs.
Objective: Essentially, the entire operation has to be made flexible, faster, and more accurate in handling large volumes of orders in B2C business.
Action: Addverb has installed a system that features the Quazzy, which couples the carton shuttles (Quadron) and sorting robots (Zippy); this automation eases out picking, sorting, and order flow mainly for bulky and non-bulky items, reduces error rates, and optimises space.
Result: The solution generates a throughput rate of 1,000 sorts in an hour, thereby improving the order accuracy dramatically and the fulfillment time and costs further. It has significantly enhanced Landmark’s fulfillment efficiency with a concurrent reduction in errors as well as labor walking, resulting in quicker and accurate deliveries.
Automated Solutions to Overcome These Challenges
Autonomous Mobile Robots and Rail Guided Vehicles
Dynamo and Travect’s powerful automation solutions solve some of the most significant challenges in e-commerce apparel logistics.
AMR Dynamo shall optimize material movement within warehouses using autonomous navigation. Currently, this includes fulfilment times and reduces errors caused by easy labour shortages.
The compact design harnesses high intelligence, allowing it to work with all sorts of different apparel inventories, helping to process the orders as quickly and accurately as possible.
On the other hand, Travect features an automated rail-guided vehicle transporting pallets quickly, reliably, and scalably along fixed paths.
It serves high volume in multiple destinations and at increased throughput while also bringing about warehouse congestion.
These systems together can create a greater impact on improvements in operational efficiency and order accuracy while also further simplifying a very complicated fulfillment process for e-commerce apparel logistics.
Advanced Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)
With real-time and precise inventory visibility, the Optimus WMS by Addverb brings a revolution in work logistics and apparel.
It adds availability and accuracy levels in undersupplying or oversupplying inventories. This would make things much easier for apparel warehouses to adapt to varied demands like these seasonal lags.
It automates stock replenishment and order picking and thus accelerates the fulfilment process while reducing manual errors, two of the most necessary features for high-paced e-commerce.
With Optimus, warehouse space would still be used more effectively because inventory organisation and material flow coordination allow better storage area utilisation and reduced stroke time.
The flexibility and scalability thus create a perfect picture for an apparel company because it can accommodate changing needs while guaranteeing maximum productivity and operational efficiency.
Reliance’s Cutting-Edge Automated Fashion Distribution Centre
Situation: Some of the improvements in infrastructure that have required further enhancements include improving operational efficiencies, accuracies, and speeds in both the B2B and B2C channel operations. It has also demanded the capacity to compete at a higher level with the rest of the fashion industry.
Action: Addverb implemented a full-fledged automation solution by integrating systems like Warehouse Execution System (WES), DWS, RFID tunnels, ASRS, Shuttle Systems, and goods-to-person stations. We aimed to streamline inbound and outbound logistics, optimise multi-tier shelving, ensure a high level of accuracy in order fulfilment.
Result: The throughput was increased up to 2.7 lakhs units, storage capacity became 1.5 crores units, and an order fulfillment rate of 99.99 percent was achieved.
It is a completely new paradigm in the high-performance world for the supply chain being defined as automation, reliability, and satisfaction of a customer in the fashion and lifestyle logistics industry.
The Future of Retail Warehousing with Addverb
The evolution of the retail market also offers an opportunity that has never been greater for warehousing itself to become more intelligent, faster, and more efficient.
Addverb is leading the future of retail warehousing with innovative automation solutions. We are empowering such retailers with better streamlining of operations, cost savings, and order accuracy and would be interfacing an AI-powered WMS with autonomous robots like Dynamo and Zippy, along with the advanced Shuttle Systems.
Addverb’s solutions encompass all functions within the value chain-receiving goods at the facility to put-away, cross-docking, order picking, packing, and shipping-from inventory management to order fulfillment and shipping-so warehouses can manoeuvre a large load of various types and product SKUs across an extensive operations footprint seamlessly.
In the retail world, where everything changes at a fast pace and speed and precision mean everything, Addverb’s automation ensures that businesses keep their competitive edge through improved operational efficiencies, fewer mistakes, and real-time visibility to inventory and order status.
Are you ready to transform your retail warehouse? Get in touch with us now and learn how Addverb’s automation solutions could optimise your own operations for efficiency in your business.
FAQ
What challenges do clothing warehouses face?
Managing diverse inventory, peak season demands, and ensuring order accuracy.
How does automation help clothing warehouse?
It streamlines inventory management, reduces errors, and speeds up order fulfillment.
What automation solutions work best for clothinf warehouse?
ASRS, conveyor systems, and robotic sorters are ideal for clothing warehouses.
