E-Commerce Fulfilment
If your pickers are walking all day and still struggling to hit cutoffs, Shelfbot changes the shape of the work: bins come to a station, picks are confirmed by scan, and throughput becomes predictable.
Key benefits:
- High SKU counts
- Fast cutoffs
- Peak-ready scaling
Common challenges
What you feel day-to-day
- • High SKU counts and constant product churn
- • Tight cutoffs and late-day order spikes
- • Batch picking, multi-line orders, and frequent revisits to the same pick faces
- • Seasonal peaks that break manual workflows
- • Training and accuracy challenges with casual labour
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 picking with pick wall
Pick up to 12 orders simultaneously with sequential pick-to-light guidance. Keeps all robots continuously working while eliminating operator walking time.
High mix stays manageable
Bins plus barcode-confirmed workflows keep the process consistent even when SKU count is high and orders are fragmented.
Peak capacity is a scaling problem, not a redesign
Add robots, aisles, bins, and stations as volume grows. You can scale without rebuilding the warehouse around automation.
Operators learn it quickly
The workflow is simple: bin arrives → pick/scan → bin returns. That reduces training time and lowers the error rate during peaks.
Typical use cases
- • Single-unit orders with high SKU variety
- • Multi-line orders requiring frequent re-visits to the same pick faces
- • Fast movers mixed with long tail SKUs
- • Returns processing and restocking back into bins
- • Cycle counting and investigations (fetch a specific bin on demand)
What success looks like
Higher pick rate per operator (more picks per hour at a station)
More predictable throughput during late cutoffs and peaks
Reduced mis-picks and easier QA through barcode confirmation
Higher storage density and reclaimed floor space
Simpler onboarding of new operators
What we'll ask in discovery
- • How many SKUs do you carry, and how often do SKUs change?
- • What's your average lines per order and peak orders per hour?
- • What percentage of picks are single-unit vs multi-unit?
- • Do you batch pick, wave pick, or pick-to-order?
- • What's your peak season profile (time window, uplift, duration)?
- • Any restricted items we should assess early (DG / flammables)?
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.