OSLO, NORWAY: StrongPoint ASA has signed a partnership agreement with Autostore to become a Nordic and Baltic regional distributor of Autostore’s innovative fulfilment solutions for retailers, a news release said.
AutoStore’s cubic storage solutions use pioneering robotic and software technology to redefine how warehouses store goods and retrieve items for delivery, enabling retailers to scale efficiently.
“We are proud to partner with AutoStore and bring their micro-fulfillment solutions to more grocery retailers. That StrongPoint has been chosen as a partner is a testament to our grocery retail expertise, world-class e-commerce solutions and deep and long-standing customer relationships.
We now provide a full end-to-end grocery e-commerce offer with our own world-class proprietary technologies and the world’s leading supplier of micro-fulfillment solutions,” said StrongPoint CEO Jacob Tveraabak
“AutoStore is delighted to partner with StrongPoint, who so clearly sees the potential in micro fulfillment. Together, we are well positioned to deliver on the ongoing transformative phase for the Nordic and Baltic markets,” said CEO of AutoStore, Karl Johan Lier.
AutoStore currently has a global blue-chip customer base with more than 600 installations and 20,000 robots across 35 countries. Its automated storage and retrieval systems, coupled with its proprietary software, provide customers with high throughput, enhanced configurability and high levels of flexibility to serve the increasing demands of today’s supply chains.
AutoStore’s innovative cubic design allows customers to either store four times the inventory in the same space, or all of their existing inventory in 25% of the space. AutoStore’s solutions thus “redefine space.”
The partnership is focused on the grocery retail sector where automation through micro-fulfillment, often known as MFCs, is today a part of grocery retailers’ long-term e-commerce strategy.
Grocery retailers face unique profitability challenges while fulfilling e-commerce orders due to the complexity and variety of orders, labour-intensive nature of the industry and fast changing consumer habits.
Automation is an issue high on the agenda for grocery retailers looking to maximise efficiency for their online offer and add additional capacity to their existing in-store or dark store manual order picking.
“StrongPoint now offers grocery retailers a fully integrated and flexible order fulfilment solution that suits any grocery retailer’s online strategy.
By offering instantly deployable manual order picking technology, long-term automation and multiple last mile and click and collect options, grocery retailers can access tailor-made solutions wherever they are on their e-commerce journey,” added Tveraabak.
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