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  • Zappos.com Implements Mobile Fulfillment System
    Retail Info Systems News
    July 1, 2008
    Online retailer Zappos.com implements the Kiva Mobile Fulfillment System in four months. Zappos has deployed a fleet of Kiva's mobile robotic drive units and inventory storage pods at its Shepherdsville, Ky. facility to support their rapid order growth and expansion into new categories such as apparel, sportswear and accessories.
  • Zappos tries robots on for size
    CNET News.com
    June 27, 2008
    Zappos.com, the online retailer with free shipping both ways, has hired little orange robots to carry your shoes.
    Actually, the company, which now sells more than just shoes, has just finished outfitting it's Kentucky warehouse with a robotic army to help fill orders, the company supplying the system announced Tuesday.
  • Kiva Systems CEO Mick Mountz Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year® 2008 Award Winner in New England
    Press Release
    Press ReleaseMick Mountz earns recognition for delivering breakthrough efficiency improvements in warehouse automation
    Woburn, MA - June 26, 2008     - Kiva Systems, a developer of breakthrough picking, sortation and shipping systems for distribution center automation, today announced its founder and CEO Mick Mountz received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2008 Award in the Emerging Business category for the New England region. According to Ernst & Young LLP, the award recognizes outstanding entrepreneurs who are building and leading dynamic, growing businesses. Mountz was selected by an independent panel of judges, and the award was presented at a gala event at the Westin Boston Waterfront on Tuesday, June 24, 2008.
  • Zappos.com Implements Kiva Mobile Fulfillment System in Four Months
    Press Release
    Rapid deployment shatters time-to-value benchmarks for automated distribution center systems installation
    Woburn, MA - June 24, 2008     - Kiva Systems, a developer of breakthrough mobile solutions for the distribution and order fulfillment industry, today announced that leading online retailer Zappos.com has implemented the Kiva Mobile Fulfillment System (KMFS) in just four months. Zappos has deployed a fleet of Kiva’s mobile robotic drive units and inventory storage pods at its Shepherdsville, Ky. facility to support their rapid order growth and expansion into new categories such as apparel, sportswear and accessories.
  • IERA Award 2008 goes to Daimler and Kiva Systems
    Press Release
    4th IEEE-IFR Invention & Entrepreneurship Award in Robotics & Automation presented in Munich
    Frankfurt, June 23, 2008     - The jury had a particularly difficult choice to make this year, so that two companies received the IERA Award 2008: Daimler for its innovative assembly system based on cooperating robots for the new C class cars, and, at the same time, Kiva Systems for a novel logistics concept based on mobile robots.
  • Latest generation of robotic solutions is making DCs more efficient
    NRF STORES.org
    June 2008
    With the cost of technology decreasing and the need for operating efficiencies increasing, robotic solutions are becoming attractive options for retailers. From warehousing to order-picking and distribution, robots can eliminate the need for some labor, maximize distribution efficiencies and even create a more enjoyable warehouse work environment
  • "R2D2—It IS you! It IS you!"
    Food Logistics
    May 2008
    Kiva Systems' Mobile Fulfillment System uses a simple set of equipment and powerful control software to provide a complete fulfillment solution: storing, moving and sorting inventory. Instead of being stored in static shelving, flow racks or carousels, products are stored in inventory pods in the center of the warehouse while operators stand at inventory stations around the perimeter.
  • Mobile fulfillment system breaks through traditional DC design tradeoffs
    Distribution Center Management Newsletter
    May 2008
    When designing a material handling system, DC managers are often told they can't have their cake and eat it too. In traditional design, managers must frequently make trade-off decisions between speed and efficiency, speed and accuracy, speed and flexibility, and many others.
    Online retailer Zappos.com wasn't willing to make any of those tradeoffs. Zappos ships its products directly to the consumer, which means its distribution center in Shapherdsville, KY is essentially its store
  • Kiva and Walgreens Expand Use of Mobile Fulfillment Solution for Retail Store Restocking
    Press Release
    Performance results exceed expectations for retail replenishment application
    Woburn, Mass. – April 28, 2008    - Kiva Systems, a developer of game-changing mobile solutions for the distribution and order fulfillment industry, today announced that Walgreens has agreed to expand the Kiva system in its Mt. Vernon, Illinois facility. The initial phase of the project proved very successful as Kiva exceeded pick rate, quality, cycle time, tote utilization, installation, training and ramp expectations while deploying a major material handling system within four months of contract execution. The expansion announced today enables Walgreens to move additional inventory items and volume into its Kiva system, filling the remaining space in this Illinois facility.
  • Kiva Systems Deploys 1,000th Autonomous Mobile Robot
    Press Release
    Company Establishes Lead in Multi-Vehicle Robotic Systems with Scalable, Flexible Deployments of Hundreds of Robots
    Cleveland, Ohio – NA 2008 – April 21, 2008     - Kiva Systems, a developer of breakthrough mobile solutions for the dynamic storage, movement and sortation of inventory, today announced that it has shipped its 1,000th robot and that the aggregate mileage traveled by Kiva’s fleet of robots has taken them well beyond the moon. With implementations of hundreds of mobile-robotic drive units at leading national retailers, Kiva has set new benchmarks for scalable, multi-vehicle robotic systems.

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  • Latest generation of robotic solutions is making DCs more efficient
    NRF STORES.org
    June 2008
    With the cost of technology decreasing and the need for operating efficiencies increasing, robotic solutions are becoming attractive options for retailers. From warehousing to order-picking and distribution, robots can eliminate the need for some labor, maximize distribution efficiencies and even create a more enjoyable warehouse work environment
  • Mobile fulfillment system breaks through traditional DC design tradeoffs
    Distribution Center Management Newsletter
    May 2008
    When designing a material handling system, DC managers are often told they can't have their cake and eat it too. In traditional design, managers must frequently make trade-off decisions between speed and efficiency, speed and accuracy, speed and flexibility, and many others.
    Online retailer Zappos.com wasn't willing to make any of those tradeoffs. Zappos ships its products directly to the consumer, which means its distribution center in Shapherdsville, KY is essentially its store
  • Fulfillment: The Unexpected Key to Successful E-Commerce
    E-Commerce Times
    February 11, 2008
    Fulfillment operations should not only be fast and efficient in the DC -- they should increase speed and efficiency of the downstream distribution process. For example, e-commerce fulfillment operations should be able to palletize orders with delivery truck routes in mind, and orders should "picked to plan-o-gram" of destination stores -- without additional capital expense, labor content or cycle time.

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