Software-Driven Autonomous Drones for Warehouse Stock Control

WMS Inventory Management, Control, Fulfilment Using Autonomous Drone Technology

Delivering the Zero-error Warehouse?

Applying autonomous drone technology in Warehouse or Distribution Centre operations can reduce the cost of expensive inventory control processes, like cycle counting.

It can also reduce or eliminate disruptions and wasted time spent searching for misplaced pallets. It could also be made to perform physical stock count. It does all this operating in the background without business disruption – and it doesn’t even need you to leave the lights on!
 

Warehouse inventory fulfilment with autonomous drone technology: benefits

• Lowers cost of expensive inventory control processes, like cycle counting
• Reduces or eliminates disruptions and wasted time spent searching for misplaced pallets
• Performs physical inventory count without human interaction
• Syncs with the WMS in the background
• Autonomous navigation and obstacle avoidance
• Smart error handling

Robust WMS software-based instruction tasking – not human pilots – direct autonomous drones

A main benefit when applying autonomous drone technology to optimise the fulfilment process is that its software, and not manually, tasked and directed. The obvious way to operate a drone might be to hire an experienced ‘pilot’ but this would be costly and would require them following a set of manual instructions. And why would you bother to hire a pilot when your current staff could continue to do the job manually anyway?
 

See how DSV, a global 3PL (third-party logistics) provider is using
autonomous drone technology at its Hedehusene, Denmark distribution centre

 
 
In-DEX WMS Warehouse Management Software integrates with any third-party system and can sync with Verity autonomous drone, and other vendor technology to deliver customer-specific instructions. It can also collect and interpret data enabling ‘on-the-fly’, actionable business insights via its BI Business Intelligence & Analytics module.
 
 
 
READ ABOUT HOW DSV, the global third-party logistics (3PL) provider is using autonomous drone technology at its Hedehusene, Denmark distribution centre in the Modern Materials Handling post: ‘Are distribution centers (DCs) ready for drones’.

If you hear buzzing the next time you’re in Ikea, that may not be a pesky fly – duck, as an autonomous drone may have escaped from its charging pod!