a contract logistics life sciences fulfillment facility in the southeastern United States
How a Life Sciences DC Doubled Pick Rates to 150+ Units per Hour
A documented life sciences fulfillment site scaled collaborative AMRs from a six-robot pilot to a large fleet and reported pick rates above 150 UPH from a 78 UPH baseline.
- 150+ UPH
- After rate
- 78 UPH
- Baseline
- 200%
- Productivity
- 20K+/day
- Units
Based on a documented real-world deployment. Figures are from public reporting; the organization is not named.
Life sciences SLAs pressed cart picking
A contract logistics life sciences fulfillment facility in the southeastern United States needed higher pick rates without adding headcount as customer service levels tightened.
Manual cart picking kept associates walking long aisles while volumes approached the limits of the existing workflow.
- Tight customer SLAs
- Cart walks across regulated SKUs
- Need to scale without hiring spikes
- Pilot had to integrate with WMS
Pilot to a multi-bot swarm
Leadership started with a six-robot pilot that integrated with the warehouse management system, then expanded to dozens of collaborative picking AMRs across about ninety-nine thousand square feet.
A multi-bot swarm model let the site add robots quickly for seasonal peaks while keeping training short for new pickers.
- Six-robot pilot with WMS tie-in
- Scale fleet across expanded footprint
- Use swarm dispatch for peak weeks
- Train pickers in minutes on bot workflows
Published rates and daily volume
Productivity rates now exceed about one hundred fifty units per hour versus an initial baseline near seventy-eight units per hour, described as about two hundred percent higher productivity in the public case.
Cycle times reportedly fell about fifty percent while the site processes more than twenty thousand units per day on the same workforce headcount.
What regulated fulfillment teams can borrow
This is a documented industry example, not a Service Robot Co. customer claim. It shows how a measured pilot can justify a larger AMR fleet when life sciences SLAs depend on steady units per hour.
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