Doosan Logistics Solutions, a unit of South Korea’s Doosan Group, has forged a strategic partnership with Norway’s AutoStore, which provides a robotic cube-based, automated storage and retrieval system, to set up a premium product line-up for warehouse storage.
The deal came after Doosan Logistics Solutions (DLS) agreed to introduce a shuttle-type storage system from Austria’s KNAPP. DLS said it would use two storage systems to meet customer demands of various sizes from large logistics centers to small and medium-sized e-commerce and third-party logistics outsourcing companies.
AutoStore’s cube-type storage system has advantages such as space efficiency due to high loading density, low investment cost, easy expansion, and fast speed. It is effective in establishing e-commerce and a micro fulfillment center (MFC), which refers to small downtown distribution centers that require high efficiency.
DLS has signed a software technology partnership with Made4net, a U.S. supplier of warehouse management systems that integrally manage warehousing, inventory, picking, and forwarding and support optimal and efficient inventory management by closely monitoring and controlling inventory flow in real-time.
“Through a series of partnerships with companies with the world’s best technologies, we will become a differentiated company in the field of logistics automation solutions with reliable products and services,” DLS CEO Kim Hwan-sung said in a statement on 30 May. “We will expand an opportunity to win orders by improving the accuracy and efficiency of logistics management while meeting the needs of various customers.”
