The Pandemic has Shaped the Future of the Supply Chain. We’ve learned a lot during the COVID-19 pandemic. There was a high disruption in the supply chain industry is for the past few years we are facing huge supply chain issues. Shortage of workers/laborers is one of the most difficult problems or biggest gaps in the supply chain. It caused us to step back and rethink that robotics could provide a solution to fill that gap. 

As the shortage of workers/laborers remains the same or even increases day by day, there is a high demand for investing in robotics and automation to fill the gap in their supply chain from production to distribution. You might think how can robotics solve your supply chain problem? How can it reduce the cost? Is it unnecessary to invest in robotics and automation? We have answers to all your doubts.

To be honest with you, Initially, it is an expensive investment for your business. But once you adapt your business to it, you can realize many benefits in the long run. It can help your companies decrease costs, provide labor and utilization stability, increase worker productivity, reduce error rate, reduce the frequency of inventory checks, and optimize picking, sorting, and storing times. Here are some supply chain problems that can be solved using Robotics.

Production activities:

For the past few years, many manufacturing industries are facing the largest shortage of skilled workers. With the help of Automation and robotics, you can fill those labor gaps which can do typically predictable physical work, such as welding, food preparation, and packaging. 

For example, fruit-picking robots have been developed with the ability to automatically sense and pick ripe fruit from soil beds using food-grade, soft robotic grippers.

Advancing warehousing:

Robotics and Automation can also be more useful for the supply chain in warehousing. They are capable of doing all typical warehouse activities and ensuring incoming orders are fulfilled despite the worker shortage. 

An Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) can navigate the warehouse independently using its in-built digital map and a series of barcodes to locate the products desired by the customer. It can be transported to the packing station once collected. It will be packed in an appropriate box using an autonomous packaging machine. Then finally, it will be moved onto an AMR to the dispatch area.

With this process of work done by Robots and automation rather than humans, you can be benefited by saving time and energy.

Delivering high-performing power:

It is essential to work fast to bring enough quantity of goods to our shelves. Therefore, in this case, Robotics and Automation can help you to fill the labor gap by designing quality, high-performance powering systems and replacing humans with robots in the supply chain to make agile forceful movements, whether to pick or carry a load of heavy orders.

Conclusion:

Robotics and Automation can make your operations tasks more efficient and effective and even reduce the cost of your business in the long run.

If you are looking to add robots and automation to your operations, It is more important to deploy them as efficiently as possible. 13SQFT is India’s first and largest B2B Digital Platform built especially for the Supply chain. They can help you by giving you the best suitable all kinds of Robots and automation to deploy into your business operation to grow your business performance.