3PL & Contract Logistics
3PL operations change constantly. Shelfbot is built for predictable, repeatable picking even when clients, SKUs, and order profiles are in flux.
Key benefits:
- Multi-client variability
- Fast onboarding
- Predictable operations
Common challenges
What you feel day-to-day
- • Multiple clients with different SKU profiles and service levels
- • Frequent onboarding/offboarding of clients and SKUs
- • Variable order profiles (small parcels one day, bulk the next)
- • High reliance on casual labour and rapid training
- • Accuracy requirements and chargebacks
- • Space pressure as clients grow
What's really happening
The constraint isn't always "how fast can someone work" — it's how much time is wasted traveling, searching, and managing complexity.
When operators spend most of their shift walking between pick faces, searching for locations, or handling constant variability, throughput drops and errors increase.
Goods-to-Person removes travel time and makes each cycle consistent, predictable, and measurable.
Why Shelfbot fits
Batch pick across multiple clients
Pick wall enables batching 12 orders simultaneously—even across different clients. Sequential pick-to-light and weight verification maintain accuracy while maximizing throughput.
Flexible slotting without re-layout pain
Because storage is bin-based, you can move and re-slot SKUs with far less disruption than fixed pick faces.
Training stays simple
Operators follow the same workflow regardless of client: bin arrives → pick/scan → bin returns.
Scale capacity as clients grow
Add robots, aisles, bins, and stations. Scaling is additive, not a re-engineering project.
Typical use cases
- • Multi-client small goods fulfilment
- • Co-mingled storage with strict barcode confirmation
- • Kitting and light value-add at stations
- • Cycle counts by bin fetch (fast investigations)
- • Peak periods when labour supply is constrained
What success looks like
More consistent throughput across variable client profiles
Lower training time for new and casual staff
Reduced mis-picks and easier client reporting through scan confirmation
Higher density storage that delays warehouse expansion
Capacity that can be 'bought in modules' as new clients are won
What we'll ask in discovery
- • How many clients and SKUs are live today, and how often does that change?
- • What SLAs matter most (same-day cutoff, next-day, carrier windows)?
- • What's the mix: single-unit vs multi-unit vs bulk?
- • Do you need client-level segregation or is co-mingling allowed?
- • How do you bill pick accuracy and how are disputes handled?
- • What systems do you use (WMS/ERP) and what integration constraints exist?
Fastest next step
If you can share a SKU master (with stock on hand) plus outbound order history, we can quickly estimate bins required, storage coverage, aisle count, and robots/stations needed.
Want to see a layout for your site?
We'll keep it practical: confirm fit, size the system, and show how it scales through peak growth.
See it. Understand it. Trust it.
Book a 30-minute demo and we'll show you exactly how Shelfbot would work in your warehouse—with a custom ROI projection for your specific operation.