Articles tagged with "inventory-management"
Simbe for Merchants suite offers retailers chain-wide visibility - The Robot Report
Simbe Robotics has launched Simbe for Merchants, a comprehensive suite designed to provide retailers with real-time, chain-wide visibility into product placement and inventory on store shelves. Central to the offering are “realograms,” automatically generated, to-scale diagrams that accurately depict what is physically present on shelves, alongside real-time planogram dashboards. This technology addresses significant retail challenges, as retailers lose an estimated 5.5% of sales and 5% of margin due to in-store inefficiencies, with planogram execution averaging only 60%. Simbe’s solution enables merchandising teams to monitor shelf conditions daily, ensuring correct product placement, display setups, and vendor alignment, ultimately driving measurable sales and margin improvements. The system leverages Simbe’s Tally robots and Tally Spot shelf-mounted cameras, combining computer vision and RFID capabilities to capture detailed, frequent data across hundreds of stores worldwide. Features like Multi-Store View allow retailers to instantly compare shelf conditions for specific products or categories across multiple locations, facilitating efficient
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Simbe Robotics has enhanced its Store Intelligence platform with new capabilities specifically designed for fresh grocery departments such as produce, deli, bakery, and prepared foods. These updates leverage the Tally autonomous mobile robot (AMR), fixed sensors, RFID technology, and virtual tours to provide near real-time visibility into inventory levels, product locations, pricing, and freshness. This multimodal approach addresses the operational complexity and high shrink rates—averaging 6.6% in perimeter departments—that characterize fresh zones, which now represent 42% of total grocery sales and 41% of online grocery revenue. The expanded platform aims to help grocers reduce shrink, improve product availability, and enhance shopper trust by automating manual processes and delivering actionable insights. Features include Tally’s daily scans of packaged fresh goods to identify out-of-stocks and pricing errors, Tally Spot’s high-frequency monitoring of fast-selling items, panoramic virtual tours for remote merchandising assessment, and RFID-enabled freshness tracking. Simbe emphasizes that fresh departments are
robotautonomous-mobile-robotretail-automationcomputer-visionartificial-intelligenceinventory-managementgrocery-technologyHomeBase USA enhances inventory operations with Simbe Robotics - The Robot Report
HomeBase USA has implemented Simbe Robotics’ Store Intelligence platform, featuring the autonomous Tally shelf-scanning robot, at its stores in Copperas Cove, Texas, and Laramie, Wyoming—the latter marking Tally’s first deployment in Wyoming. HomeBase stores carry tens of thousands of SKUs across diverse categories such as lumber, hardware, and farm supplies, making inventory management complex. Tally automates manual inventory tasks by scanning shelves multiple times daily to detect out-of-stock items, pricing errors, and misplaced products. This real-time data is accessible via a mobile app and dashboard, enabling store teams to prioritize and address issues promptly, thereby improving shelf availability, labor efficiency, and customer experience. The introduction of Tally aims to reduce the 30 hours per week that store associates typically spend on manual inventory duties, which are often error-prone and a major factor in employee attrition. By automating these tasks, HomeBase hopes to free associates to focus on higher-value activities and enhance operational
roboticsautonomous-robotsinventory-managementretail-automationSimbe-RoboticsTally-robotstore-intelligenceDigital Teammate from Badger Technologies uses multipurpose robots - The Robot Report
Badger Technologies LLC recently launched its Digital Teammate platform, featuring autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) designed to work collaboratively with retail store associates to enhance productivity and operational efficiency. These multipurpose robots integrate computer vision and artificial intelligence to assist employees by automating tasks such as hazard detection, inventory monitoring, price accuracy, planogram compliance, and security. The platform aims to complement rather than replace human workers, providing critical data that improves store operations and customer shopping experiences. Badger emphasizes that the robots act as digital teammates, extending staff capabilities and enabling more meaningful human interactions. The Digital Teammate platform combines hardware and software, including RFID detection and retail media network advertising, to augment existing retail systems and data analytics. A mobile app delivers prioritized tasks and insights to all levels of retail staff, from floor associates to executives, facilitating data-driven decision-making without requiring users to become analysts. The robots help retailers "triangulate" data by comparing expected inventory with actual shelf conditions and support a persona-based
robotautonomous-mobile-robotsretail-automationartificial-intelligencecomputer-visioninventory-managementRFID-technologySimbe, Coresight Research study finds retailers urgently need to reduce inefficiencies - The Robot Report
Simbe Robotics Inc. and Coresight Research released the “State of In-Store Retailing 2025” report, highlighting the urgent need for retailers to digitize stores through artificial intelligence and automation to address significant inefficiencies. Retailers currently lose $162.7 billion annually in margin due to in-store inefficiencies—a 27% increase from 2024—primarily driven by shrinkage, manual tasks, and employee turnover. Key operational challenges include promotion execution errors (39%), product pricing errors (37%), and misplaced or missing items on shelves (37%). Although 66% of retailers have begun adopting store intelligence technologies, only 20% have fully scaled these solutions, indicating substantial room for growth. Investment in store intelligence and automation technologies is rising sharply, with a 151% year-over-year increase in planned spending and notable adoption gains in shelf-digitization robotics. Simbe’s autonomous Tally robot exemplifies the benefits of automation, enabling retailers like ShopRite to reduce out
robotautomationretail-technologystore-intelligenceinventory-managementAI-in-retailautonomous-robotsWebinar to discuss advances in mobile robots for warehouses - The Robot Report
The article discusses an upcoming webinar hosted by Vanderlande and Hai Robotics, focusing on the advancements in mobile robots for warehouse operations. As warehouse operators and third-party logistics providers face challenges such as rising customer demand, labor shortages, and trade disruptions, automation through mobile robots is becoming increasingly vital for enhancing efficiency and competitiveness. The webinar, scheduled for June 10, 2025, will feature industry experts who will explore the integration of automated guided vehicles (AGVs), self-driving forklifts, and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) into existing workflows, as well as their impact on productivity, inventory management, and safety. Key topics to be covered include identifying workflows suitable for automation, various mobile robot options available, and the role of orchestration software in ensuring interoperability with other equipment. The experts will also emphasize the importance of understanding the operational environment and maintaining human oversight in automated processes. Attendees will gain insights into how mobile robots can improve visibility, reduce costs, and provide valuable data for digital twins and AI applications. The webinar will be available for on-demand viewing after the live session, allowing participants to engage with the panel and ask questions.
robotautomationmobile-robotswarehouse-solutionslogisticsinventory-managementAGVsInventory robots come to Sleepy Hollow as Simbe partners with grocery chain - The Robot Report
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