Automation of the warehouse will aid in addressing issues including labor shortages, insufficient warehouse space, and ineffective inventory management. The demand for warehousing services and warehouse robotics is likely to rise as online retail sales of tangible products surpass $500 billion. More than 90% of warehouse owners and managers say that in order to successfully balance the need for more services and space with the challenge of finding and keeping a qualified personnel to fulfill demand, cost-cutting measures are essential. It can be more expensive to ignore these trends than to automate your warehouse. Modern warehouses place more of an emphasis on value-added services, order customisation, and quick flow-through procedures that stage products in accordance with just-in-time inventory principles than they do on traditional storage functions. Modern warehouse automation systems have come with inclusion of advanced technologies and digitalisation which tremendously set the dynamic trends of the following.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://community.robotshop.com/index.php/blog/show/how-warehouse-robotics-set-new-trends-of-automation