“Smart” warehouses provide higher speed, automation, visibility, and transparency. Digitized warehouses empower enterprises to gain control of their logistics process and ensure that products are delivered to customers as quickly as possible. Nowadays, warehouses are becoming increasingly smarter and more agile.

The concept of warehouse digitalization is shifting from being a hot topic into reality. Advanced, new technologies are used to address warehouses’ operational challenges and improve productivity. According to a survey presented by the MHI Annual Industry Report, 80% of respondents believe that the digital supply chain will be the industry’s dominant model within the next five years. For 20%, it is already the dominant model.

Warehouse automation is expected to soar over the next 5 years, driven by the exponential growth of the e-commerce industry. In particular, the logistics industry is beginning to take advantage of the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (A), robotics, and data analytics.

In this article, you’ll learn how to digitize your warehouse, and share how Urovo can help to streamline your warehouse operations.

What is Warehouse Digitization?

Warehouse digitization refers to an intelligent, efficient, and automated warehouse that makes the best possible use of both people and equipment. It includes the optimal deployment of mobile computing technology to manage and control the movements, re-arrangement, and transportation of goods. A combination of high-tech tools can help facilitate the logistics processes in your warehouse. 

Warehouse digitization is not always a synonym with warehouse automation. Warehouse automation is aimed at tackling repetitive and monotonous tasks to enable employees to focus on matters requiring human involvement. Digital warehouses go one step further by designing new models and processes to increase the overall workflow efficiency. Yet, they both have a similar goal: streamline the warehouse management processes to increase productivity, ensure higher efficiency, and promote a better customer experience. 

Why is Warehouse Digitization Important?

Warehouse digitization is necessary to meet customer demand for faster deliveries. Now that technology is becoming more affordable, the bar on expected warehouse performance is getting higher.

Businesses need to deploy automation technologies in their warehouses and fulfilment centers if they want to maintain their competitive edge.

How Warehouse Mobility Solutions help boost productivity?

Innovation in warehousing continues to flourish. Warehouse automation technologies are emerging and enabling warehouse operators to address challenges through real-time data.

With the increasing challenges of traditional logistics processes, businesses are looking to manage and conquer these challenges through new technology. In particular, warehouse mobility solutions and wearable warehouse technology  are great to help your worker move faster and with a lot more ease. They also help you gather more data than you could ever get with manual entry.

What are the Benefits of a Digital Warehouse?

A smarter warehouse means greater material handling capacity and reduced time-to-handle. Here are other benefits of warehouse digitalization:

● Remove business process waste and increase efficiency

● Moving from manual and offline systems to real-time and online systems

● Increase the speed of transactions by capturing data at source

● Place analytics, data and decision-making into the hands of the user

● Reduce paperwork and data errors

● Increase customer service and satisfaction

● Improve business profits by reducing inventory obsolescence & waste

● Complete traceability and audit trail for all connected business processes

How Urovo Can Help Make Your Warehouse Smarter

You want your warehouse to be as efficient and cost-effective as possible. To solve the problems connected to inefficiencies, you need to digitize, automate, and upgrade your warehouse systems and processes.

However, it can feel overwhelming for you and your team, especially at the beginning. Mobile computing technologies can seem complicated or like they’re designed for only the biggest distribution centers. It can be challenging to find enough time and resources to implement the right solutions when you’re already busy running a warehouse and meeting growing customer demands.

We at Urovo have been helping warehouses achieve greater productivity and efficiency for decades. Our mobile computing technologies make digitizing your warehouse easy so that you can upgrade your warehouse quickly and without complexity. This way, you can start enjoying the business benefits right away.

New systems and devices need to be simple and easy to use. They need to work, without a bunch of headaches and difficulty. You don’t have an infinite amount of time to figure out how to use them, how to integrate them with your other systems, and how to train your workers.

We get it; that’s why we have designed our warehouse solutions for businesses like yours. You need a fast and reliable way to start automating and digitizing your warehouse operations without a lot of complexity.

Whether it’s barcode scanning, RFID, mobile computing, or warehouse management and inventory software, we come up with the right combination to achieve your operational and business goals, without you having to take on all the responsibility on your own.

This way, you can stay focused on managing your business operations while we help you modernize your warehouse to get to where you need to be.

Discover the Urovo RT40 Industrial Mobile Computer

The Urovo RT40 is an ultra-performing industrial mobile computer designed to be used even under extreme conditions, including at temperatures below 30°C. It's powered by Android 10 and is equipped with Octa-core CPU.

In case of on-site emergencies, you know your team can rely on its 13MP camera to record any unusual event, anytime and anywhere. And that is only a fraction of the features that make the Urovo RT40 the best industrial mobile computer for your warehouse.

With its built-in dual PA, the Wi-Fi transmission range is longer, helping you to save greatly on network deployment costs. Its 5200 mAh large-capacity battery supports quick charge, and can be fully charged in less than 3h.

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What’s Next

Despite the clear advantages of a digitized warehouse, more than 80 percent of the warehouses today still have no automation whatsoever. The changes needed are still many, but the trend is growing. Since the last decade, 15% more of the warehouses  are being mechanized.

According to estimates, the warehouse automation market is expected to grow by 1.5x by 2025 and to cross $37.6 billion by 2030. Global growth of the warehouse automation market is expected to increase dramatically over the next five years, with estimates ranging from just under $30 billion, to more than $90 billion by 2024.

With the advent of always-on e-commerce, the demand for faster responses, and the need to manage a larger number of SKUs with fewer errors, warehouses need to scale up and meet the standards of an intelligent, efficient, and automated warehouse.

Does that sound like a winning proposition for your warehouse? Contact our mobile experts at Urovo to learn more about our Urovo technologies and how we can help you digitize your warehouse.