The year-end shopping season not only brings high sales volumes but also more returns. The apparel industry faces massive seasonal fluctuations in inventory and often higher return rates than other sectors, leading to greater storage pressure for businesses. Geek+, the global leader in AMR, has the solutions to tackle this problem. This solution fits into a multi-process apparel warehouse or can be used as a standalone solution:
Solution highlights:
Efficiency: Streamline operations for 2x picking efficiency
Process optimization: Reduce sorting and manual putaway procedures
Improve sales: Improve sales opportunities for in-season items for a 5-15% increase in sales volume
Intelligent consolidation: Decrease consolidation frequency and increase consolidation quantity
Challenges of returned stock in the apparel industry
Short product selling cycles, the need for fast product replenishment, and time-sensitive sales operations
A wide variety of low-volume SKUs requires a high frequency of putaway, consolidation, return, and warehousing
Manual operation steps are tedious and prone to errors
Slow return turnover implies a greater need for optimizing warehouse space
Applying goods-to-person solutions in apparel returns
Picking outbound operations to meet the demand of outbound orders
Warehousing inventory to meet the demands of SKU consolidation
Transfer stock to meet the demand of SKU unstacking
