Smart warehouses complete 8 million orders in 72 hours

The extravaganza is the largest single shopping event in the world. Geek+ deployed and completed large-scale scheduling of more than 4,000 robots for the shopping festival.

In under 72 hours, Geek+ smart warehouses completed all Singles Day orders and shipped a total of 8.11 million orders, up 62% year on year, with a 48h delivery rate of 86%, nearly double that of manual 3PL warehouses. The 4,000 robots had a total mileage of more than 1.5m km.

The firm sees the event as validation of its Robot-as-a-Service business model and the flexibility and efficiency of smart warehouses during periods of peak orders.

Geek+ operates over 300,000 sq m of warehouses, and has created a shared network of thousands of robots. The RaaS model helps customers effectively reduce initial investment and lower the entry threshold, while improving the efficiency of robot use and reducing overall operating costs.

The company launched in the UK last year and is ramping up operations in the first half of this year.