a third-party e-commerce fulfillment operator running a roughly ten-thousand-square-meter distribution center in central Europe
How a European E-Commerce DC Hit 300 Picks per Hour per Workstation
A documented European e-commerce fulfillment center paired AMRs with pick-to-light and reported about 300 picks per hour per workstation after a 233 percent gain.
- 300 PPH
- Picks per hour
- 233%
- Pick gain
- 1,300/hr
- Parcel sort
- 85
- Sort lanes
Based on a documented real-world deployment. Figures are from public reporting; the organization is not named.
Same-day e-commerce outran manual picking
A third-party e-commerce fulfillment operator running a roughly ten-thousand-square-meter distribution center in central Europe needed faster picks and parcel sortation for growing online brands.
Manual picking and in-house workflows could not keep pace with same-day delivery promises around a major metro area. Leaders wanted integrated software, light-directed picking, and scalable AMR sortation without rebuilding the whole building.
- Rising e-commerce order volumes
- Short lead times for online brands
- Manual pick limits per workstation
- Parcel sort complexity across many routes
Integrated lights, software, and AMR sortation
The operator commissioned a dynamically scalable fulfillment platform with integrated logistics software, pick-by-light and put-to-light stations, and autonomous mobile robots for parcel sorting.
About two thousand five hundred square meters of the building were dedicated to a large sort table where AMRs sorted parcels toward dozens of destinations, routes, and delivery windows.
- Deploy pick-by-light and put-to-light picking
- Integrate AMRs on the parcel sort table
- Map routes for many delivery destinations
- Scale AMR count without major reprogramming
Published throughput and pick rates
Compared with manual picking, the published case cites a two hundred thirty-three percent increase in picking performance to about three hundred picks per hour per workstation.
AMR sortation on the large table reached up to about one thousand three hundred units per hour across roughly eighty-five destinations, with room to add robots as volume grows.
What US e-commerce and 3PL teams can study
This is a documented industry example, not a Service Robot Co. customer claim. It still shows how AMR sortation and light-directed picking can lift rate when same-day service is the promise.
Service Robot Co. selects OEM-neutral warehouse AMRs and fulfillment integrations, then finances, deploys, trains, and services units through a nationwide engineer network. A free site assessment maps pick stations, sort tables, and phased go-live before peak season.