Success stories: Enabling same-day delivery for 3PL logistics startup

Boxy is a Hungarian-based third-party logistics service provider serving enterprise customers across the entire Central Eastern Europe region with a turnover of 100 to several million orders a month.

Their newly opened 10,000 sqm state-of-the-art distribution center sits at the heart of Boxy’s operations.

Thanks to a modern automated solution combined with sophisticated software, Boxy can save its clients up to 50% in costs compared to manual warehouses or in-house solutions. Extremely short delivery times and end-customer-friendly same-day delivery in the greater Budapest area are further points that make Boxy an attractive logistics partner.

What are the challenges?

Boxy handles a large volume of parcels on a daily basis with many different destinations while promising its customers fast delivery, directly affecting the end-customer experience. Due to the volume of parcels and the many destinations Boxy ships to, it is also challenged to find the most cost-effective carriers and forwarders for its shipping process.

What are the solutions?

The logistics ecosystem at the distribution centre’s core comprises Infios’s Warehouse Management System (WMS) which integrates with Infios’s Unified Control System (UCS) and automated components from robotics suppliers Geek+ and Libiao Robotics.

The UCS controls goods-to-person from Geek+ as well as Libiao’s parcel sortation robots. Geek+’s autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) bring shelves with goods to a pick-by-light station, where an employee is informed of the goods in each compartment and where they have to be placed for further processing. Thanks to the integrated pick-by-light and put-to-light technology, this requires minimal training while achieving optimum efficiency. Boxy noted a performance increase by 233 percent to 300 picks per hour and workstation compared to manual picking.

2,500 sqm of the warehouse area are reserved for sorting. On an extra-large table, Libiao Robotics’ AMRs sort the parcels according to the 85 different destinations they’re being shipped to. As they can move autonomously into any direction, this offers flexibility for further expansion, such as deploying more robots. The robots can currently sort up to 1,300 units per hour.

The integration of the AMR workflows into the UCS means they can be continuously adjusted to improve efficiencies, which further boosts purchasing convenience and delivery speed. Infios’s Shipping and Dispatch System (SDS) also provides the flexibility to choose the right service provider from a quality and cost perspective, allowing processing of orders via a large number of carriers and forwarders.

The combination of all of Infios’s solutions provides Boxy with a tremendous competitive advantage.

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