[Interactive PDF Guide]
Honest Advice About Warehouse Automation
Discover firsthand insights from Drew Bailey of GEODIS, one of the world’s foremost experts in warehousing, logistics, and supply chain technologies. As the architect behind a high-volume, high-speed AS/RS implementation for one of the largest 3PLs globally, Drew provides straight talk while sharing hard-earned lessons from the design, installation, and operation of advanced automation systems.
What You'll Learn
- Design for Real-World Operations Understand why true design goes beyond layout renderings. Learn how to engineer workflows, software functionality, and productivity targets that reflect how your warehouse actually works—not just how it looks.
- Rethink Automation ROI Learn why traditional CapEx-heavy automation models don’t work for most 3PLs and how creative financing strategies like RaaS and asset-light leasing can make automation viable even on razor-thin margins.
- Design for Flexibility, Not Forecasts Discover why scalable, modular automation beats fixed infrastructure. The guide explains how to future-proof your operations against client churn, volume swings, and unpredictable disruptions.
- Manage Labor Smarter Understand how automation and better workflows can ease the burden of hiring, training, and retaining a mixed workforce of full-time, temp, and gig workers without replacing them entirely.
- Meet Rising Client Expectations Explore how even small clients now expect Amazon-level tech. Learn how to position your automation capabilities as a competitive differentiator, even when full deployment isn’t economically justified.
- Survive Peak Season Without Breaking the Bank Get strategies for handling explosive seasonal demand without building a warehouse-sized staffing agency — insights into scalable automation and smarter client education to tame peak chaos.
