Nike Works Together To Build An Intelligent Logistics Center In Japan. Robots Are Made In China.

Recently, the US sports giant Nike (Nike) announced that it will work with Japan's Daiwa House Insustry to jointly build an intelligent logistics distribution center for robot handling and manpower packaging.

In this cooperation, Daiwa House and its Acca International will provide logistics and distribution center facilities and facilities for Nike's electricity supplier operation and direct outlets in the Japanese market. It will help Nike further strengthen its own business and store businesses, and respond more quickly to the best-selling products.

In 2019, Nike announced that it stopped selling its sports shoes and clothing on the Amazon website of the US electricity supplier giant, ending the online cooperation pilot project between the two sides since 2017.

Recently, Daiwa House has set up a logistics distribution center with 6000 container shelves and 1 million goods in Chiba County near Tokyo. Under the cooperation of 215 handling robots and 50~60 employees, 30 thousand items can be delivered everyday. Compared with the same scale logistics distribution center, the number of personnel required is only 1/4.

It is worth mentioning that these robots come from the Chinese robot manufacturer GEEK+ (Ji Zhijia), the model is EVE.

After receiving the command, the distribution robot determines the location and route through the two-dimensional code marked on the ground, keeps running between the shelves, moves the container to the workstation, and some of the employees take the order goods from the employees, and the remaining employees pack and distribute them. The logistics distribution center is equipped with artificial intelligence technology to improve work efficiency. For example, container shelves equipped with best sellers will be placed closer to the workbench.

In the future, the order will be delivered before three p.m. in the capital circle of Tokyo. Before that, the order from the previous day was shipped from 7 a.m. and shipped at night.

In addition, with the support of Acca International data analysis, the logistics distribution center will put the purchased goods together in the same container rack to further improve efficiency.

As the leading retail store developer in Japan, Daiwa House hopes retailers can sell goods directly to consumers through the use of the system, reducing or completely relying on Amazon's three party e-commerce platform.

In the future, Daiwa House plans to open more logistics centers in Japan, including second in Tokyo's capital circle in 2021. Chiba County logistics distribution center is based on the existing facilities, adding a system, the investment cost is about 2 billion yen (about 127 million yuan).

Daiwa House points out that it hopes to further cooperate with Nike in the future, that is, to provide services for brands in the markets outside Japan, and is also considering providing this system for other brands and retailers. Diawa House is currently developing and operating several logistics distribution centers in Southeast Asia.

Daiwa House director Urakawa Ryuya (Tatsuya Urakawa) said: "we will build a display sample in Japan and take it to Brazil, Scandinavia and other overseas markets."

Globally, the distribution center distribution robot market is growing significantly. The International Federation of Robotics predicts that by 2022, the global logistics robot market will grow to $22 billion 500 million, an increase of five times compared to 2018.

Before Nike, Japan's fast fashion giant Uniqlo cooperated with two robot start-ups, the Japanese robot controller MUJIN Inc. and the French robot start-ups Exotec Solutions SAS, to achieve a higher level of warehousing and logistics automation, and the efficiency of sorting and distribution was also improved.