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US firm Walmart & Symbotic to deploy supply chain automation system

20 Jul '21

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US-based retail company, Walmart, and Symbotic, a robotics and automation-based company, are set to reimagine the retailer’s regional distribution network. Symbotic will begin the process of outfitting 25 additional regional distribution centres with the high-tech system aimed at furthering Walmart’s mission of operating a best-in-class supply chain.

Walmart’s supply chain is central to ensuring customers can shop when, where and how they want. By implementing Symbotic’s system, Walmart will better modernise and digitise its existing supply chain facilities to support evolving customer demand and create a frictionless experience. All the while, the retailer will create training opportunities for associates that open the door for jobs of the future, increase productivity and reduce costs. Symbotic’s scalable, integrated system deploys a fleet of fully autonomous robots in combination with proprietary software to deliver industry-best throughput and efficiency, while increasing warehouse capacity. With the new system in place, it will help reduce the time it takes to unload, sort, and stock freight in Walmart stores, the company said in a press release.

“There is no greater validation of our efforts to use technology to reimagine the warehouse and supply chain than our work with Walmart. We set out more than 15 years ago to dramatically improve America’s legacy warehouses and supply chain to provide better and faster service to American consumers with new career opportunities for workers. Working with customers like Walmart has enabled us to develop this total solution and with this trust we are now positioned to develop Symbotic-powered warehouses around the country for years to come,” Rick Cohen, chief executive officer of Symbotic said in a statement.

“The digital transformation happening today, alongside evolving customer habits, is reshaping the retail industry. To serve customers now, and in the future, our business must provide the right tools and training to our associates so they can deliver the items that our customers want, when they want them, with unmatched convenience. We’re investing in our supply chain at an unprecedented scale in order to optimise that process end-to-end,” Joe Metzger, executive vice president of supply chain operations at Walmart said.

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