Catch.com.au has opened the doors to a 36,000sqm fulfilment centre in Sydney's Moorebank.
In this special video, Catch MD Pete Sauerborn takes us on a tour of the facility before GM of fulfillment Joe Schmieg reveals the robots powering its dispatch capabilities.
The 360 Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) are deployed to bring racks of product to team members, with the technology working alongside the Catch team on site.
The technology aims to decrease the time between customer orders and processing, reduce out of stock orders and reflect more accurate inventory levels.
At optimal capacity, Catch.com.au’s robots can pick over 105,000 units per day via 5,800 mobile racks.
Catch.com.au has already pioneered warehouse technology of this kind with its two Melbourne centres.
The Sydney centre marks Catch.com.au’s third fulfilment centre and will focus on delivery experience for the Eastern seaboard.
For customers based in New South Wales and Queensland where orders are filled out of the new Sydney site, they can expect to receive items within 24-48 hours.
Sauerborn said the new fulfilment centre will employ over 200 people between now and peak.
“As an Australian owned and founded business, servicing Aussies in a meaningful and convenient way is at the core of what we do.
"The pandemic really showed consumers how beneficial online shopping can be, and with increasing demand we knew we needed to increase our fulfilment capacity.
"What our Sydney fulfilment centre will offer is more: more products, an expanded team, increased robotics and advanced warehouse technology, and an increased ability to service Australians more efficiently.
"We are able to do this with highly sophisticated technology, making this new centre our most technologically advanced to date.”