Warehouse drones for inventory management
Boost warehouse productivity and safeguard your staff with autonomous stocktakes
Designed for:
CYCLE COUNTS
EMPTY BIN AUDITS
PUT-AWAY AUDITS
WMS INTEGRATION
Automated stocktakes with warehouse drones
Say goodbye to inefficient, expensive, and often hazardous inventory control processes and hello to commercial drones in warehouse management, with the fully autonomous inventAIRy XL solution.
Developed by doks. innovation GmbH and supplied and supported by RAWview across Europe, inventAIRy XL takes warehouse safety, productivity and profitability to a new world.
Who can benefit?
Distribution Centres & Warehouses
Autonomous barcode scans reduce demand for labour, equipment and time
Third-party logistics
Improve customer satisfaction and meet customer SLAs at a fraction of the cost
Cargo and freight forwarding
Easily adapt cycle count frequency with higher supply chain velocity
The benefits to your warehouse
Calculate your payback period in 7 steps
We've developed this quick and easy tool to help you accurately forecast the payback period on your company's investment in automated drone-based inventory counts with the inventAIRy XL solution.
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Enter the total # of pallet locations that need reconciling against WMS/ERP records
5-Year Manual Inventory Counting Costs
5-Year Autonomous Inventory Counting Costs
Please provide some details about your ideal inventory counts
Enter the frequency at which all pallets are scanned at the moment
Enter the ideal frequency at which all pallets should be scanned
The period of time that drone-based counts can be conducted. inventAIRy XL can work non-stop for upto 5 hours
Sum of gross salaries + employee benefits
Hire charges or depreciation of machinery used for inventory counts (eg. scissor-lifts)
eg. Write-offs due to obsolescence, spoilage, lost in facility, etc.
Result
Based on the information provided, we've estimated an investment payback period of:
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Based on the details supplied, drones may not be the right solution for you from a cost saving perspective.
inventAIRy XL is best suited to operators who wish to increase the regularity of their inventory counts, which would otherwise be expensive to do using manual processes.
Summary
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UNPARALLELED EFFICIENCY
With a work rate in excess of 400 locations per hour; that’s more than 2000 locations per mission, inventAIRy XL is able to conduct cycle counts considerably faster than even the slickest of manual operations.
IMPROVED STAFF WELFARE
An indoor drone solution, designed to take humans out of the loop, inventAIRy XL completely eliminates Health & Safety risks, such as working at height and in close proximity to machinery.
LOWER INVENTORY COSTS
Not only does inventAIRy XL remove the labour cost of inventory counts, it reduces the usage and subsequently the hire (or depreciation) of MEWPs, whilst also dramatically improving inventory accuracy.
UNMATCHED SIMPLICITY
inventAIRy XL can be implemented easily and with very few steps. The system is designed to be deployed with virtually no disruption to existing processes, nor does it require modifications to warehouse infrastructure.
UNPARALLELED EFFICIENCY
With a work rate in excess of 400 locations per hour; that’s more than 2000 locations per mission, inventAIRy XL is able to conduct cycle counts considerably faster than even the slickest of manual operations.
IMPROVED STAFF WELFARE
An indoor drone solution, designed to take humans out of the loop, inventAIRy XL completely eliminates Health & Safety risks, such as working at height and in close proximity to machinery.
LOWER INVENTORY COSTS
Not only does inventAIRy XL remove the labour cost of inventory counts, it reduces the usage and subsequently the hire (or depreciation) of MEWPs, whilst also dramatically improving inventory accuracy.
UNMATCHED SIMPLICITY
inventAIRy XL can be implemented easily and with very few steps. The system is designed to be deployed with virtually no disruption to existing processes, nor does it require modifications to warehouse infrastructure.
The workflow of inventAIRy XL
Comprising a drone with sensors for barcode scanning, a ground robot for autonomous navigation, and intelligent software to make the data usable, inventAIRy XL enables precise localisation and fully automated recording of all pallet locations within a racked warehouse facility.
The unique combination with the ground vehicle means that inventAIRy XL overcomes the three biggest limitations of autonomous drone use in a warehouse environment: flight endurance, flight safety, and zero access to GPS.
Automate your inventory control
CYCLE COUNTS
EMPTY BIN AUDITS
PUTAWAY AUDITS
WMS INTEGRATION
Relieve your warehouse operatives of this time-consuming, expensive, yet business-critical task.
With a workrate of up to 2000 pallet locations per mission, inventAIRy XL gives you the
capacity to enhance your inventory accuracy and data currency, without any human intervention whatsoever.
One of the biggest contributors to warehouse efficiency is Putaway Cycle Time. With inaccurate WMS data, your forklift operatives waste valuable time going to pallet spaces that are already occupied.
By design, inventAIRy XL automatically detects and notifies your team of all pallet spaces that are actually available to receive inbound stock.
When the velocity of inventory in and out of the warehouse is high, it’s natural that human error can come to the fore – this is especially true of the putaway process.
Through a tight integration with your WMS or ERP, inventAIRy XL knows precisely which rack location each pallet should be in and can alert your team whenever an anomaly is detected.
inventAIRy XL is agnostic when it comes to 2-way data compatibility – as long as your WMS or ERP software can generate and receive a .csv or .xml file, the inventAIRy XL system will be able to function as intended.
3 simple steps to implementation
1. FEASIBILITY
Confirmation of warehouse suitability and forecast investment payback period
2. PROOF-OF-CONCEPT
On-site deployment of the solution to validate the use case and quantify the benefits
3. IMPLEMENTATION
Deploy the solution at scale; whether that be at one warehouse or throughout your entire estate
3 simple steps to implementation
1. FEASIBILITY
Confirmation of warehouse suitability and forecast investment payback period
2. PROOF-OF-CONCEPT
On-site deployment of the solution to validate the use case and quantify the benefits
3. IMPLEMENTATION
Deploy the solution at scale; whether that be at one warehouse or throughout your entire estate
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Frequently Asked Questions
What fundamental issues does inventAIRy XL resolve?
At its core, the solution is developed to prove or disprove that the real-world situation within a warehouse is aligned with its WMS inventory records. Some examples of the issues inventAIRy XL is proven to resolve:
| inventAIRy XL feature | Net result to warehouse operation |
| Accesses high and hard to reach locations | Reduced H&S risks and usage of MEWPs |
| Real-time validation of inventory levels | Reduced rates of inventory shrinkage |
| Real-time validation of empty rack locations | Improved put-away efficiency and productivity |
| Real-time detection of put-away errors | Improved picking accuracy and productivity |
| Photographic evidence of inventory counts | Thorough and transparent audit trails |
| Fast & fully autonomous inventory counts | Operational and financial resilience against increased cycle count obligations, reduced labour cost, improved overall productivity, higher operating margin |
How many rack locations can inventAIRyXL scan on a single mission?
Will I need to change my warehouse infrastructure?
In contrast to other solutions, inventAIRy XL does NOT require any adaptation to existing warehouse infrastructure, such as strategic placement of ArUco markers or creation of WiFi access points, to facilitate the drones’ navigation. Instead, all navigation is carried out by the system’s ground robot, which is pre-programmed with a digital twin of the warehouse (floor area, aisle positions, rack dimensions, bin locations etc). As a result, deployment of the inventAIRy XL solution can be achieved without any modifications to the warehouse’s physical layout whatsoever.
Can the solution detect empty bins?
Can it count pallets stored 2 or 3-deep on racks?
Can inventAIRy XL work at night or during other periods of downtime?
Will the solution actually save us money?
- The scale of your warehouse operation
- The human time and cost to meet your current and/or future cycle count obligations/aspirations
- The extent of financial loss suffered as a result of inaccurate inventory records
To calculate the potential savings from an inventAIRy XL deployment at your facility, we suggest using our cost saving calculator.
How long does a Proof of Concept take?
How long does implementation take?
What areas does RAWview cover?
RAWview currently supply and support the inventAIRy XL solution across Europe, including the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Scandinavia.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the fundamental issues that inventAIRy XL is designed to resolve?
At its core, the solution is developed to prove or disprove that the real-world situation within a warehouse is aligned with its WMS inventory records. Some examples of the issues inventAIRy XL is proven to resolve:
| inventAIRy XL feature | Net result to warehouse operation |
| Accesses high and hard to reach locations | Reduced H&S risks and usage of MEWPs |
| Real-time validation of inventory levels | Reduced rates of inventory shrinkage |
| Real-time validation of empty rack locations | Improved put-away efficiency and productivity |
| Real-time detection of put-away errors | Improved picking accuracy and productivity |
| Photographic evidence of inventory counts | Thorough and transparent audit trails |
| Fast & fully autonomous inventory counts | Operational and financial resilience against increased cycle count obligations, reduced labour cost, improved overall productivity, higher operating margin |
How many rack locations can inventAIRy XL scan on a single mission?
Can inventAIRy XL work at night or during other periods of downtime?
Will I need to make big changes to my existing warehouse infrastructure?
In contrast to other solutions, inventAIRy XL does NOT require any adaptation to existing warehouse infrastructure, such as strategic placement of ArUco markers or creation of WiFi access points, to facilitate the drones’ navigation. Instead, all navigation is carried out by the system’s ground robot, which is pre-programmed with a digital twin of the warehouse (floor area, aisle positions, rack dimensions, bin locations etc). As a result, deployment of the inventAIRy XL solution can be achieved without any modifications to the warehouse’s physical layout whatsoever.
Can the solution detect empty bins?
Can the solution count pallets that are stored 2 or 3-deep on racks?
Will the solution actually save us money?
- The scale of your warehouse operation
- The human time and cost to meet your current and/or future cycle count obligations/aspirations
- The extent of financial loss suffered as a result of inaccurate inventory records
To calculate the potential savings from an inventAIRy XL deployment at your facility, we suggest using our cost saving calculator.
How long does a Proof of Concept take?
How long does implementation take?
What areas does RAWview cover?
RAWview currently supply and support the inventAIRy XL solution across Europe, including the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Scandinavia.
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