Solution Name:AMR Warehouse Logistics Automation Solutions (NVIDIA Jetson)
Applicant:Syrius Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
Application Industry:Logistics
Solution Introduction
Market Background
Warehousing is a critical node in the logistics industry, and its operational efficiency greatly determines the company’s fulfillment capability and operational costs. The warehousing logistics industry has long been labor-intensive, inefficient, and fragmented. In the context of an increasingly serious aging population and rising rents, the challenges are even greater.
Especially with the rise of e-commerce, delivery speed has become a key factor in measuring consumer experience. The accompanying challenges such as explosive orders during promotions, warehouse congestion, a large number of SKUs, high-frequency returns and exchanges, high employee turnover, and high costs of error correction pose significant challenges to warehousing operations and shipping efficiency. The automation transformation of warehousing logistics is an inevitable trend.
Syrius’s AMR is a new generation of mobile robots with strong autonomous mobility and operational planning capabilities. With a rich array of mini-programs, carriers, and attachments, it can meet various operational needs such as shelving, unshelving, transporting, and adjusting storage locations. The FlexGalaxy.AI cloud service platform serves as the engine, connecting the entire information flow to achieve cost reduction and efficiency enhancement through digital tools.
Pain Point 1: High logistics timeliness requirements, low manual picking efficiency, and high error rate in operations.
Syrius’s solution value: The AMR can quickly and accurately find storage locations during shelving and unshelving operations, planning the optimal path. Human-machine collaboration reduces the walking distance of pickers by 50%, lowers labor intensity, and increases picking efficiency by 2-5 times. Instant scanning verification achieves a picking accuracy rate of up to 99%.
Pain Point 2: Significant demand fluctuations, seasonal order fluctuations, or clear promotional fluctuations.
Syrius’s solution value: AMR warehouse robots are easy to deploy, can be used immediately, and can adjust the number of robots according to business fluctuations, reducing the pressure of temporary worker recruitment and training costs.
Pain Point 3: Difficulty in recruitment, high personnel turnover, and training challenges.
Syrius’s solution value: By adopting a human-machine relay mode, picking and transporting work is reduced, cutting labor costs by 1/3; the AMR operational process is standardized, and the human-machine interaction provides step-by-step operational prompts, allowing even novices to get started quickly.
Pain Point 4: In order to improve space efficiency, a steel platform loft warehouse was adopted, but suitable automation equipment is lacking.
Syrius’s solution value: Syrius’s AMR warehouse robots are lightweight and agile, meeting the load-bearing requirements of loft warehouses, and can move smoothly in narrow aisles of 80cm. Utilizing unique visual SALM technology, it can overcome weak network environments in lofts for precise positioning. By employing “overall planning” for cross-floor operations and “mixed scheduling” for various tasks, it reduces collection frequency and efficiently achieves multi-floor collection.
Pain Point 5: Existing business cannot be paused for automation construction, and the cost of introducing automation equipment is high with a long payback period.
Syrius’s solution value: Low investment with quick results. It does not require site selection, warehouse modification, or downtime, and can be used in narrow aisles. The RaaS model can be rented or purchased: using a rental model eliminates the need for large upfront purchases of robots, turning a difficult investment decision into a simple operational budget decision; purchasing outright allows for quick payback in 2 years.
Pain Point 6: A large number of SKUs, high frequency of SKU updates, and difficulty in inventory counting.
Syrius’s solution value: The robots cover the entire process of shelving, restocking, picking, returning, and transporting, allowing for refined management of a vast number of SKUs. The parallel operation mode of shelving and unshelving optimizes storage locations, enabling real-time inventory management, dynamic counting, and timely restocking to smooth out fluctuations.
Pain Point 7: Numerous blind spots in warehouse management, lack of effective means and standards to improve operational efficiency.
Syrius’s solution value: The AMR not only enhances on-site execution efficiency but also serves as an effective means to connect the upstream and downstream information flow of the business. The autonomous AMR collects massive amounts of data during work, while the FlexGalaxy.AI cloud service platform analyzes the data in real-time, outputs optimization plans, and dynamically schedules AMR operations, immediately implementing optimization measures. From online malls to fulfillment centers, Syrius connects with various business systems and IoT devices for comprehensive digitalization.
Technical Application Status
As a national high-tech enterprise, Syrius currently has a team of over 200 people, with 80% being R&D personnel, mastering advantageous technologies in machine vision, SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping), indoor navigation, multi-agent systems, and more, with a complete patent layout.
1. Software Platform: Syrius defines hardware through software, independently developing core hardware, with hardware costs 50% lower than the industry average.
2. Algorithm Decision Platform: Ensures robust stability of SLAM through AI prediction and planning, low computing power requirements, and filter optimization (MSCKF), while the AI intelligent body can autonomously make decisions, enhancing terminal intelligence, achieving true cloud deployment, system integration, and cluster scheduling, with an average customer site deployment cycle of only 5 days.
3. Software Application Platform: Syrius supports customers in open and flexible configuration through its independently developed low-code platform and mini-program applications.
4. Operating System Platform: Through a compact communication architecture and multi-agent system (MAS) distributed decision-making, it accumulates personnel, goods, and environment into a unified planning database for backend accumulation, front-end iteration, integrating over ten types of AIoT devices for full-scene coverage and achieving full-process planning.
Solution Implementation Status
Application Scenarios
(1) Steel Platform Loft Warehouse Case: Cool Fun Toys (Toys – E-commerce Shipping Warehouse)
Cool Fun Toys is a leading brand in the domestic trendy toy market, with over 300 stores nationwide. Its own warehouse primarily serves e-commerce operations and previously adopted a low level of automation.
1. Main Pain Points:
(1) Business surge disrupts rhythm; manual picking is inefficient and prone to errors;
(2) Three shifts are required, including night shifts for picking, leading to high labor costs;
(3) The loft warehouse has been built, and the business is busy, making it difficult to stop work or modify to introduce automation equipment.
2. Syrius’s Solution and Advantages:
(1) Introduce “picking and sorting simultaneously” to eliminate the “sorting” link; mixed scheduling executes picking, shelving, restocking, and returns processing tasks in an orderly manner to accelerate the pace;
(2) The AMR robots use a battery swap model to achieve uninterrupted operations throughout the day; human-machine collaboration shortens labor time, reducing the need for night shifts;
(3) Quick deployment, seamless upgrades; robot deployment on the second floor of the loft completed within a week; after seeing results, quickly expanded to other floors.
3. Application Effects:
The project was completed in one week, achieving an order picking efficiency of 67 items/person-hour, a productivity increase of 113%, and saving 57% in labor costs; during promotional periods, the number of AMRs can be directly increased for immediate use, reducing cost burdens and allowing for flexible expansion.
(2) Third-Party Logistics Warehouse Case: Zhongtong Cloud Warehouse (Daily Chemicals – E-commerce Shipping Warehouse)
Zhongtong Cloud Warehouse is a leading cloud warehouse in China, serving numerous e-commerce sellers with complex and dispersed business types, and frequent updates from upstream suppliers.
1. Main Pain Points:
(1) Low inventory turnover rate, fierce industry competition, and thin profits;
(2) Demand fluctuates significantly due to promotions, making fulfillment difficult;
(3) Difficulty in recruitment, unpredictable temporary labor needs, high personnel turnover, and challenges in employee training;
(4) Management is coarse, lacking operational means.
2. Syrius’s Solution and Advantages:
(1) Random storage of “one product, multiple locations” and “concurrent shelving and unshelving” operations quickly improve inventory turnover rates and profit margins driven by data and software;
(2) Increase AMRs according to order volume without fear of order fluctuations; new AMRs can be used immediately upon arrival, improving the human-machine ratio to maintain fulfillment efficiency;
(3) Standardized operational processes allow even novices to quickly reach the operational efficiency of skilled workers;
(4) Real-time output of optimization plans through big data enables visual management, achieving true order traceability, waste-free production capacity, and grounded planning.
3. Application Results:
After introducing Syrius’s technology, Zhongtong Cloud Warehouse achieved a 46% increase in productivity and saved 40% in labor costs, significantly reducing costs and increasing efficiency. Additionally, the existing automation equipment at Zhongtong Cloud Warehouse has achieved high integration with Syrius’s system. AMR robots can connect with various intelligent sorting devices and automatic labeling machines already in use, combining with the warehouse management system to achieve real-time analysis of massive data through Syrius’s cloud backend, providing visual results to management personnel, thus enabling unified integrated management capabilities.
(3) Retail E-commerce Fulfillment Warehouse Case: Well-Known Women’s Lingerie Brand (Footwear and Apparel – Retail E-commerce Shipping Warehouse)
This brand has a vast number of SKUs, making picking challenging; order volume is influenced by promotions, with order volume during promotions being 8 times that of usual, making fulfillment difficult.
1. Main Pain Points:
(1) A large number of SKUs, scattered distribution, making management, picking, and restocking difficult;
(2) Inbound and outbound speeds are not coordinated;
(3) Demand fluctuates significantly due to promotions, making fulfillment difficult;
(4) Difficulties in upgrading steel platform loft warehouses.
2. Syrius’s Solution and Advantages:
(1) AMRs combined with information systems can manage massive inventories in real-time, achieving precise inventory management through “order-to-person” and “zoned picking”;
(2) AMRs can flexibly execute various operational forms, allowing inbound shelving and outbound picking to occur simultaneously, improving turnover efficiency and balancing inbound and outbound speeds;
(3) Capacity can be expanded at any time to actively respond to promotions and improve fulfillment capabilities, alleviating personnel management pressure;
(4) AMRs can operate directly in loft warehouses without adjusting loft shelves or occupying additional space.
3. Application Results:
(1) Effectively promoted fast inventory turnover, with productivity increasing by 47% and labor savings reaching 33%.
(2) During promotions, the demand for temporary workers decreased by 60%. The concurrent mixed operations of shelving and unshelving greatly increased the chances of secondary sales of goods, reducing the storage pressure of returned inventory.
(4) Cross-Border E-commerce Warehouse Case: 4PX (Shoes and Apparel – Overseas Warehouse)
4PX is a leading comprehensive service provider in China’s global cross-border e-commerce supply chain, serving over 1 million cross-border e-commerce merchants and 200 million end users, with warehousing and distribution systems established in multiple countries overseas.
1. Pain Points:
(1) Difficulty in overseas recruitment, high labor costs, high personnel turnover, and high training costs;
(2) Low efficiency in manual picking;
(3) Outbound operation re-inspection is a bottleneck, with low efficiency and high costs; shipping errors are hard to recover, doubling costs;
(4) Lack of measurement indicators for remote management, making cross-border management difficult to implement.
2. Syrius’s Solution and Advantages:
(1) Human-machine collaboration achieves “zoned picking”, reducing labor intensity; matching inbound and outbound speeds lowers total working hours and saves labor costs comprehensively;
(2) AMR promotes business process advancement and guides operators in their work, enhancing the systematic level of picking and stabilizing the rhythm, improving picking efficiency;
(3) High personnel turnover leads to frequent errors among newcomers; AMRs guide and assist operators, improving efficiency while reducing error rates;
(4) AMRs collect operational data in real-time, helping the Chinese headquarters understand operational management situations promptly, enhancing operational management capabilities.
3. Application Results:
Assisted high-efficiency overseas warehouses in completing the upgrade and transformation of smart warehouse management, achieving a significant leap in reducing personnel while increasing efficiency. After applying Syrius’s cross-border e-commerce solutions, 4PX’s overseas warehouse productivity increased by 127%, saving 42% in labor costs, greatly reducing reliance on manpower in the supply chain. Visual dashboards provide the headquarters with operational management tools, allowing for data-driven operational strategies.
Demonstration and Promotion Value
Application Status
Currently, Syrius’s AMR solutions have served industries such as third-party logistics, e-commerce, and overseas operations, providing professional equipment, technology, and services for order fulfillment in various categories including beauty, footwear, 3C, and pharmaceuticals, and extending business forms into the industrial manufacturing field. Syrius has global partnerships with many industry leaders, including DHL, CJ, Guantong, Cool Fun Toys, Zhongtong Cloud Warehouse Technology, and 4PX, receiving unanimous praise from customers. After practical verification through over a hundred projects, the solutions are stable, reliable, and efficient.
At the same time, Syrius provides a unified API and SDK, collaborating with multiple ecological partners, connecting with systems such as OMS/WMS/ERP to provide customers with integrated solutions.
In 2022, Syrius reached a strategic cooperation with Lenovo’s global service team. Through Lenovo’s mature service network worldwide, Syrius and Lenovo work together to provide world-class professional on-site deployment and after-sales services for customers in over 150 countries and regions.
Applicant Introduction
Syrius is a global leader in AMR (Autonomous Mobile Robot) hardware and software and cloud service development, dedicated to providing future productivity for the general logistics and service industries. The company has offices and experience warehouses in Beijing, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore, and the UK, with a wholly-owned subsidiary in Japan and a team size of about 200 people. We solve productivity challenges from both “brainpower” and “physical power” perspectives. In the warehousing logistics field, we have developed low-threshold, truly flexible AMR solutions tailored for new retail formats, serving many world-class retail and logistics giants with rich project experience across industries such as footwear, beauty, daily chemicals, 3C, and pharmaceuticals.
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