Convenience Store

Convenience Store Automation

Automate & Retake Control of Your Supply Chain Process.

Efficiency-Driven Solutions for C-Store Distribution Facilities

Our fully customizable convenience store robotic automation solutions automate workflows from receiving to picking to staging and delivery. Leverage robotic automation to reduce the number of human touches to speed your workflows and drive efficiency.

The Benefits of an Automated Warehouse

Faster picking: 8-10x productivity boost
Reduce labor by 60-80%

Reduce forklift usage
Tax Stamp more efficiently

Improve accuracy to 99.9%
Reduce time spent training

Solutions Designed for the C-Store Warehouse

Pick to pallets, Coolifts or totes
Easily handle tobacco stamping workflows
Pallet platforms customized to carry Coolifts within your warehouse

Synchronize order building with delivery schedules
Multiple pick lines possible by SKU category such as Beverage, Sundry, Tobacco, Cold Chain
Establish Shelf Life picking conditions

Prime Workflow Builder – Tailor Robot Behavior To Optimize Your Workflows

Our customizable convenience store robotic automation optimizes workflows

Want to embrace robotic automation to maximize efficiency?
Want to minimize change and have the robots adapt to how you work?
Do you deliver to stores on pallets, hand trucks, or Coolifts?

Workflow Templates for C-Store Processes

Receiving pallets
Depalletizing
Tobacco Stamping
Piece-picking to totes

Order parts merging
Cold chain
Pallet wrapping
CoolLift packing/staging

Sequenced order processing: Synchronize just-in-time order completion with route scheduling
Synchronized picking: Heavy items picked first and lighter items can be stacked on top
Automated delivery of assembled orders to the loading dock

Multiple Robots Work in Concert in a C-Store Distribution Environment

Our Prime Workflow Builder tool designs workflow processes executed by our Robot Control System (RCS). The RCS manages all robot processes and synchronizes all robots in the warehouse to work in concert. A solution may include Prime Robotics’ suite of MobileShelf, MobilePallet, and MobileConveyor robots.

The fastest robotic picking AMR solution.

Workers can make 300-350 picks per hour
Dramatically reduces demand for manual labor
Training is fast and it’s easy to operate
Deploy with minimal operation disruption

See MobileShelf in Action

Automate pallet moving to increase warehouse efficiency.

Dramatically reduce demand for forklifts and number of human touches.
MobilePallet and MobileShelf can work in concert to create a highly efficient automated warehouse.

Learn more about MobilePallet

Our Partners

Highjump software robotics integration partner

Manhattan WMS robotics integration partner

Coolift platforms by Magliner

Lightweight platorms used by beverage and convenience distributors. Our MobileShelf and MobilePallet robots can carry 1-2 Coolifts.

Omnitracs Certified Integration Partner

Able to coordinate robot-enabled pick orders with arrival schedules of trucks to your docks. We can help you move to a 24/7 production schedule to dramatically reduce the need for staffed dock bays.

Cubiscan

Our RCS and our solutions can include Cubiscan models. We may incorporate them on a conveyor line of inbound boxes or use them on the side for capturing real data and images for new SKUs. When Prime’s system has accurate weights and dimensions for objects being stored, cube space within the robotic system and cartonization are optimized. Now it’s possible to accurately predict when it’s time for another tote while piece picking or for a new pallet when doing case picking.

Prime Robotics Implementation Overview

Planning Phase
First, we ask many questions and dig into your operation. Then an onsite visit allows us to document your current workflow processes. Afterward, we come back to you with the output of our Prime Workflow Builder. This takes in hundreds of pieces of data about your operation to create an optimized workflow that includes the optimal number of robots. You get a visual representation of how your warehouse can operate at its highest efficiency.

This detailed view of your automated warehouse makes it easy to calculate your new pick rate and the number of orders per day you can fulfill with confidence. We’ll show you what happens to productivity if you add more Pick Stations, shifts, or other robots – such as our MobileShelf pallet mover.

Implementation

Whether you use a top WMS or a home-grown version, integration with your current software is straightforward. After all, our background is in enterprise-class warehouse systems integration! Our Robot Control System (RSC) interfaces with your WMS, uniting your inventory and order data with the robots. On-site tasks are straightforward. We apply fiducials to your warehouse floor. Our robots use these to navigate. Next, we install shelves made for the MobileShelf robot and the shelves are filled with inventory. We add the Pick Station(s) designed for robot-assisted order filling. Lastly, we add robot charging stations. A robot will automatically navigate to a charging station when its battery runs low.

Go-Live
Our team trains your team to use the RCS. Then we begin the test phase with 50 actual outbound orders, slowly increasing that number. Within a week or two, your team’s confidence in the system allows you to move 100% of your inventory and orders into the RCS system. With that, your robotic automation deployment is complete. We lead this process and ensure there is minimal interruption to your operation.

Let’s talk

If you want to see how to boost productivity in your warehouse, we’re here. Let’s start a conversation.