Project background
In recent years, demand in China's beverage market has continued to grow. Data from the Huajing Industry Research Institute shows that in 2023 the carbonated beverage market in China was worth about RMB 123.2 billion, with a compound annual growth rate of 8%. As a leading brand in the carbonated beverage category, this customer holds an absolutely dominant market share. With sales continuing to climb, the customer's supply chain system also faces greater challenges.
At the same time, consumer demand for beverage features such as function, health and taste has become more diverse. To meet consumer demand, the number of beverage categories keeps increasing. As an internationally renowned beverage giant, the customer has always been committed to offering consumers diverse choices and currently provides Chinese consumers with more than 20 brands and over 100 kinds of beverages. As beverage categories keep increasing, the upstream raw materials, packaging and other production inputs have also become more varied, which adds to the difficulty of the customer's warehouse management.
The Matrix8 intelligent storage and retrieval system solution proves its worth
Because the properties of beverage materials naturally suit pallet-based solutions, ATOMIX designed an adapted intelligent warehousing system for the customer based on Matrix8 Storage, one of the three major subsystems of Matrix8, helping the customer increase storage density, improve inbound and outbound efficiency and reduce operating costs, and supporting the customer in optimizing its supply chain warehousing system.
Adapting to an irregular layout to maximize space utilization
The customer's warehousing area has an irregular shape. ATOMIX's Matrix8 Storage subsystem, built around the Pallet Shuttle (four-way pallet shuttle), makes full use of the warehouse space through flexible layout, achieving a space utilization rate of more than 90%.
Flexible equipment sizing to optimize system efficiency
The warehouse is less than 10 m high, and outbound and inbound are separated by a wall. With a traditional solution, the customer would have needed to configure more equipment to meet basic storage location requirements and to connect the inbound and outbound flows, and equipment capacity utilization would have been extremely low. Drawing on the discrete configuration and flexible scheduling of ATOMIX's intelligent pallet four-way shuttle, ATOMIX configured an appropriate number of units and used an intelligent scheduling system to achieve unrestricted scheduling across the whole space. While meeting storage location requirements and connecting inbound and outbound, this raised equipment capacity utilization to more than 90%, saving the customer a large amount of investment.
Intelligent management of materials and storage locations to minimize empty locations
The customer has different storage requirements for different materials and different batches, and in high-density storage scenarios honeycomb storage locations easily appear, greatly affecting storage location utilization. ATOMIX uses AI algorithms to intelligently allocate materials and storage locations, reasonably assigning storage zones and storage locations, reducing honeycombing and greatly reducing wasted storage locations.