Walmart and Symbotic Expand Partnership to Implement Industry-Leading Automation System
May 23, 2022 at 06:31 am
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Symbotic LLC and Walmart Inc. announced an expanded commercial agreement to implement Symbotic's robotics and software automation platform in all 42 of Walmart's regional distribution centers over the coming years. This is an expansion of Walmart's prior commitment to deploy Symbotic Systems in 25 regional distribution centers. The end-to-end software-enabled high-density robotics platform plays a strategic role in supporting the retailer's goal of modernizing its vast supply chain network and allows Walmart to transform its regional distribution centers to provide faster responsiveness to store orders, increased inventory accuracy and higher capacity for receiving and shipping freight to stores. The technology's ability to build palletized loads of department-sorted inventory ultimately enables Walmart to get products onto shelves at its more than 4,700 stores more quickly, while also making one of the toughest aspects of supply chain work -- material handling -- safer and simpler. It also creates new, tech-enabled jobs, such as cell operator and maintenance technician, that offer widely applicable skills in robotics and technology. Walmart has already begun embedding Symbotic's technology in select regional distribution centers throughout its network. The retrofitting process of all 42 regional distribution centers is expected to be completed over the next 8+ years. The Symbotic System The Symbotic System is a first-of-a-kind automation technology platform with a wide range of business use cases. The
company reinvented the traditional warehouse with an end-to-end system powered by a fleet of fully autonomous robots and A.I.-powered software. Combined with a unique high-density physical structure the system improves efficiency, accuracy and agility while reducing costs. Intelligent Symbotic software orchestrates a team of robots to receive, store and retrieve a virtually limitless number of SKUs. Using proprietary end-of-arm tools and vision systems to output cases, totes and packages at industry-leading speeds.
Symbotic Inc. is an automation technology company reimagining the supply chain with its end-to-end, artificial intelligence (AI) powered robotic and software platform. The Company is engaged in developing, commercializing, and deploying end-to-end technology solutions that improve supply chain operations. It automates the processing of pallets and cases in large warehouses or distribution centers for some of the retail and wholesale companies in the world. The Symbotic platform is based on an approach to connecting producers of goods to end users, in a way that resolves the mismatches of quantity, timing and location that arise between the two, while reducing costs. It utilizes fully autonomous robots, collectively controlled by its AI-enabled system software, to achieve at scale, real world supply chain improvements. It serves various industries, including retail grocery, retail general merchandise, food wholesale, footwear and apparel, consumer packaged goods and food and beverage.