a wholesale distribution company operating a high-bay warehouse in Europe
How a Wholesale Warehouse Reclaimed 40 Hours a Week With Pallet AMRs
A documented European wholesale warehouse saved about 40 hours weekly after three pallet AMRs took over moves from receiving to high-bay aisle ends.
- 40 hrs
- Weekly saved
- 3
- AMR units
- 12 m
- Rack height
- 24/7
- Steady feed
Based on a documented real-world deployment. Figures are from public reporting; the organization is not named.
Manual Pallet Feeds Into Narrow Aisles
A wholesale distribution company running a high-bay warehouse needed pallets staged at aisle ends without tying skilled receiving staff to repetitive driving.
Published reporting describes racks reaching about twelve meters high with manned trucks working narrow aisles while pallets piled up in the receiving zone.
Leadership wanted people focused on assessing, prioritizing, and slotting inbound freight instead of shuttling loads that could be automated.
- Keep high-bay aisles fed without extra drivers
- Free receiving experts for prioritization work
- Reduce daily hours lost on internal transport
AMRs From Receiving Racks to Aisle Ends
The operation deployed three large autonomous mobile robots that collect pallets from dedicated racks in receiving and deliver them to the ends of high-bay aisles.
Experienced logistics staff place inbound pallets onto robot pickup racks, then turn to complex sorting decisions while units stream loads to reach trucks inside the aisles.
The design keeps humans on judgment tasks and robots on steady horizontal moves between receiving and storage lanes.
- Install robot pickup racks in the receiving zone
- Map routes from receiving to each aisle end
- Train receivers on pallet placement and priority flags
Forty Hours Back Every Week
The company reported saving approximately forty hours per week on internal pallet transport after the AMRs took over receiving-to-aisle moves.
Staff who previously drove those loops now spend time planning and optimizing inbound flow, which leadership treats as higher-value work.
Robots maintain a steady feed to aisle ends so high-reach trucks spend less time waiting for the next pallet.
What US Wholesalers Should Compare
This is a documented real-world example overseas, not a Service Robot Co. deployment. It shows how pallet AMRs can attack receiving bottlenecks in tall-rack warehouses.
Service Robot Co. maps receiving lanes and aisle ends with your warehouse team, stays vendor neutral on AMR class, and packages buy or lease financing with RoboCare service for US distribution centers facing similar travel waste.