Writing the Next Chapter with a Robotics Strategy for the Ingram Content Group
Key Activities
Discover: understand operational pain points, business requirements, and performance KPIs | Analyze: evaluate automation vendors and use cases, develop solution fit, and quantify ROI and TCO | Recommend: formulate network-wide robotics deployment roadmap and change management plan
Solutions
AGV | AMR | AS/RS | Automated Packing
The Why
Ingram Content Group was facing pressure from rising labor costs and difficulty in retaining warehouse associates. Additionally, Ingram struggled to keep up with increasing eCommerce demand using their highly manual picking operations. They reached out to Bricz for expertise in the robotics and automation space to relieve their increasing labor challenges.
The Work
The Bricz team used a vendor-agnostic approach to evaluate more than 250 automation providers for solution fit. Bricz selected the most qualified 13 vendors to proceed with detailed design. These vendors were compared based on ROI, TCO, disruption to operations, implementation timeline, and more. Based on these results, Bricz recommended a timeline and rollout plan to implement the solutions that would result in the greatest labor savings and throughput increase.
The Outcome
Bricz recommended a combination of automation solutions that would result in over $187M of savings over a 10-year period. These savings are resulting from a combination of labor reduction, reduced training time, material savings, storage density improvement, and picking efficiency. These findings were presented in a roadmap that outlined an implementation timeline for their 4-facility network.
As we embarked on a robotics journey, we were looking for a consulting partner that understood pick assist, AGVs, ASRS, and more. In Bricz, we found the right unbiased partner to help us develop a roadmap that would maximize our ROI and would put us on the path to success.
Chief Logistics Officer, Ingram Content Group