Many of today’s automated storage and retrieval systems are equipped with automation, flexibility and efficiency to take on the industry’s most pressing challenges.
Today’s food and beverage processors and distributors face several challenges—increased food safety regulations, energy efficient initiatives, continuous new product development, mergers and acquisitions and more. But, behind the scenes lie some even more pressing challenges, such as labor shortages, undesirable working temperatures, taller buildings and warehouses, ever-changing technology and so on.
“Labor is becoming more expensive and harder to find. Accuracy and building throughput requirements are on the rise. Customers are demanding more in terms of service, not just product,” says Jason Perks, solution sales director for Viastore, Grand Rapids, Mich. “As food and beverage orders become smaller and smaller with more lines per order, the importance of accuracy will increase as well.”