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Admin — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:46:06 GMT

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Admin — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:49:24 GMT

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Admin — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:34:54 GMT

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Admin — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:33:51 GMT

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Admin — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:28:54 GMT

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AutoStore Powers Arvato’s Global, High-Speed Fulfillment Growth

Admin — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:27:42 GMT

AutoStore powers Arvato’s fulfillment operations, with the latest expansion boosting storage capacity by 30% and increasing peak throughput to 26,000+ orders/day, strengthening a global network of 15 AutoStore systems.

Hobbii Scales Global Fulfillment with AutoStore

Admin — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:12:05 GMT

Learn how Hobbii uses AutoStore to support global e-commerce growth, high order volumes, and 24-hour peak operations across 80+ countries.

PUMA Increases Warehouse Capacity 10X｜AutoStore Automation

Admin — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:06:00 GMT

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Transforming Healthcare Logistics: Medline's Success

Admin — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:38:14 GMT

About Medline

Medline Industries – a healthcare company based in Illinois, United States – is a world-leading manufacturer and distributor of medical supplies. In 2020, Medline was ranked number 21 on the Forbes list of the largest privately held companies in America.

The company’s product offering includes 550,000 medical products and clinical solutions, and clients range from hospitals and extended care facilities to surgery centers, doctors’ offices, home care agencies, and general retailers.

Among the company’s many products are nutritional shakes, supplements, medications, tube feeding, garments, sterile trays, syringes, gloves and masks for healthcare workers, equipment to help hydrate patients, wound care products, mobility equipment, and incontinence products. In fact, Medline produces just about anything that’s used for patient care and treatment in a hospital or care setting.

Founded in 1910, Medline has had many guises over the decades. It started off producing aprons, then progressed to medical garments in 1912, and, shortly after, started manufacturing general medical supplies.

The manufacturer has grown enormously in the last century and now has 24,000 employees in over 90 countries. Just the warehouse in Libertyville, Illinois, covers 600,000 square feet (55,741 square meters). There are 43 distribution centers in the United States, and these regional hubs all provide next-day service to Medline’s customers.

Medline was the first company in the U.S. to embrace AutoStore technology nationwide in 2013. Over the years, the warehouse automation solution has worked so well that the team is now preparing to install more systems.

Three challenges to overcome

When AutoStore was first installed, Medline aimed to overcome three challenges: they needed to increase item picking, decrease the windows to fulfill orders, and run a successful enterprise in a tight labor market. Their orders varied in scale, and they needed to do thousands of deliveries every day.

What made the Medline operation particularly challenging is that, besides the large customers who order in bulk, there are 1000s of customers who put in small orders. These also needed to be prioritized for the company to keep all their customers – big and small – satisfied.

The company worked on distributing goods in two ways:

Bulk cases, which make up 30–40% of the Illinois center’s sales lines, had to be taken by forklift to the staging areas, where employees would pick the correct number of items for shipping and distribution.
The second part of the picking and distribution process involved the AutoStore system.

Currently, in the main warehouse, the AutoStore system runs with 47 Robots that pick the rest of the products (i.e. not the bulk cases) from the Bins. The Robots glide over a grid that houses 27,570 storage Bins to retrieve the products on order. They subsequently deliver them to packers at 12 Picking Stations on the edge of the grid, who then make up the orders. Next, a conveyor belt takes the products to the correct loading docks. And, finally, the products are scanned and delivered either to Fed-Ex pickups or Medline’s private fleet of trucks.

A business that runs smoothly, thanks to AutoStore

AutoStore has made all the difference and has helped Medline to expand its operations over the years significantly.

“AutoStore has allowed us to continue to increase our cut-off times, expand our product offering in a temperature-controlled environment, and cover our expanding customer base,” says Bill Abington, President of Global Operations at Medline.

What’s more, it’s allowing the Medline team to challenge the norm and continue to drive a world-class supply chain that benefits their customers and differentiates their business.

Proshop’s Automated Peak Demand Solution

Admin — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:11:57 GMT

Automating a warehouse doesn't necessarily mean cutting jobs. At Denmark's online retailer, Proshop, AutoStore's solution not only bolstered efficiency but also generated 15 new job opportunities. This equipped them to handle the surge in consumer demand during the crucial peak season.

Proshop's logistics center in Højbjerg, Denmark, exemplifies how automation can coexist with job retention and profitability. Transitioning from a physical store to a purely online platform in 2005, Proshop has a history of embracing innovations. Such adaptability has enabled them to offer over 200,000 products across eight European nations.

“If we had not introduced robot technology at Proshop, we might have gone from 140 employees to maybe 0. That is great, and we are very proud of our robotic warehouse,” says Ivan Jæger Christiansen, CEO of Proshop.

Proshop's Response to Peak Season Surge

Like many other retailers, peak season for Proshop falls around the end-of-year holidays. And while that has meant increased orders and revenue year-on-year, a particularly intense period in 2017 convinced company leadership that a new approach would be needed to keep them competitive without losing customers or exhausting their workforce.

The challenge

Seeking to take advantage of the Black Friday and Christmas sales periods in 2017, Proshop experienced such intense demand that they struggled to fulfill orders using traditional logistics methods. Aside from increasing pressure on employees and the risk of errors and missed orders, the prospect of facing a similar holiday season unprepared posed a risk for the company’s ability to stay competitive during a high-profit sales period.

“Price competition is extremely fierce in the electronics market. You simply make a few Danish kroner per iPhone or laptop. So if we are not efficient enough, we can’t sell the product cheap enough, and if you can’t sell it cheap enough, you will not sell it at all.”

Ivan Jæger Christiansen

CEO, Proshop

After assessing their performance and needs based on the 2017 period, Proshop determined that the most effective way to maintain profitability and efficiency, and to support their existing workforce, was an automated warehouse system. Research into available solutions revealed that the AutoStore system, known for space efficiency, error reduction, and almost limitless customizability, was the clear choice.

Benefits of the AutoStore system

Upon completion of Proshop’s new automated warehouse solution, the company immediately saw an improvement across the board, from sales to warehouse efficiency. The AutoStore system is built around a Grid of aluminum rails, vertical stacks of Bins beneath them, and one of three models of Robots, which travel along the rails to sort and retrieve requested items for packing, storage, or inventorying.

"We expect to handle up to 30.000 orders in one day, which is 10 times as much as usual. Without these robots, our logistics would collapse"

Ivan Jæger Christiansen
CEO, Proshop

Because it can be packed into a much smaller physical footprint than traditional pallet- or shelving-based warehousing models, the AutoStore system is an ideal space- and cost-saving solution for companies that don’t intend to move to larger, more expensive logistics premises. In Proshop’s 3,000 m2 (32,300 ft2) warehouse, the AutoStore system takes up only 1,000 m2 (10,800 ft2) of floorspace.

Perhaps more importantly, the AutoStore solution has significantly streamlined Proshop’s logistics, enabling employees to work more efficiently without burnout, and without impacting profitability. “We have to be prepared for the Christmas season without having to work faster [or] work longer,” explains Proshop Warehousing and Logistics Manager Ronnie Stormfeldt.

By Christmas 2019, that preparation had paid off, increasing Proshop’s top line by 30 percent. The system will be able to handle 30,000 orders per day — ten times their original capacity pre-AutoStore.

Furthermore, the new automated system has proven so successful that Proshop has not only maintained their existing workforce, but expanded it, hiring 15 new employees since implementing the AutoStore solution. “If we had not introduced robot technology at Proshop, we might have gone from 140 employees to maybe 0. That is great, and we are very proud of our robotic warehouse,” says Christiansen.

How the system works

The AutoStore system consists of a Grid capable of storing and processing thousands of Bins using multiple intelligent, battery-powered R5, R5+, or B1 Robots to retrieve inventory Bins from the Grid. From the Grid, Bins are passed onto a conveyor system for delivery to any of several workstations or Ports for order fulfillment, picking, replenishment, inventory control, and other purposes.

Grids can be customized to fit facilities of any size and shape using 17 standardized, interchangeable components. Between its space-saving potential and its superior efficiency, the AutoStore system can increase storage capacity by up to 4 times and performance by 10 times compared to conventional logistical models.

The system installed at the upgraded Højbjerg facility, after upgrades and expansions, now consists of a fleet of 70 Robots and 100,000 Bins. The AutoStore system has made it possible for Proshop to handle substantially higher order volumes, making it an indispensable asset for the company in future peak demand periods.

Project Specifications:

Installation type: Brownfield (existing site)

Robots: 70 Robots (with space for up to 300 robots)

Bins: 100,000

Partner: Element Logic