Ecommerce Warehouse Solutions

Avanta UK – Partnering You Through Your Online Growth

Over the past 20 years we have partnered with many retailers large and small and at various stages of their growth.

Whether it be designing and installing a mezzanine floor for additional storage or creating a caged area for high value stock, Avanta UK will work with you.

The world of retail is constantly evolving and we can help a traditional retailer adapt the warehouse environment to service online customers or you maybe an Internet only business and you need to increase pick locations to satisfy your growing customer base.

Examples of products and services are highlighted below and brought to life with real life case study examples.

Mezzanine Floors

If your space is dwindling but you have available height a mezzanine floor could be the answer. Mezzanines have multiple uses and options for an Internet Retailer, including: -

Create additional storage with Longspan Shelving to store BDC Boxes
Create a specific returns area with pigeonhole shelving to deposit packets, boxes, individual items
Office mezzanines can house your warehouse management team
Utilising pallet gates, conveyors, chutes, lifts enable the movement of pallets, boxes and personnel
Create a platform for automation – robot picking in a caged area with a smooth hard-wearing surface

These are just a few examples of how mezzanine floors can help your ecommerce business

For stock that needs to be hand picked and loaded carton live storage is an ideal solution.

Carton Live Storage includes inclined trays of roller tracks, set at levels in the storage bays, allow goods to roll under gravity down dedicated lanes within the trays, from the loading to the picking face.

Order picking times are reduced and errors minimised, as not only are items presented precisely at the picking face, but also effective management of the throughput and stock levels of goods can be easily maintained.

Carton live beds can be incorporated into existing pallet racking for picking individual boxes.

Order fulfilment of the ecommerce operation can be complicated with the number of smaller low value individual SKU's and boxed items and then combining these into order "bundles". The transition from goods stored on pallet, decanted to boxes, then to individual items and then to be regrouped and packed for despatch be time consuming and complex. The complexity could lead to picking errors which needs to be addressed.

These are just a few examples of how Carton Live Storage can help your ecommerce business

BDC Shelving

Longspan shelving is the perfect solution to store BDC boxes with the wide span between uprights enabling you to store a good quantity of BDC boxes.

Built and tested to the highest UK and European standards, heavy duty longspan shelving provides an efficient, flexible and high performance storage system for warehouses and factories.

There are a variety of deck options including steel mesh, steel panels and timber to ensure compliance with Insurance Company Requirements.

These are just a few examples of how BDC Shelving can help your ecommerce business

Returns Shelving

The idea is to provide a separate returns area with numerous locations built from steel shelving to house returned goods rather than the goods having to go back into the general palletised or bulk stock.

Each pick face within the shelving system has a barcode location that is scanned when the item has been returned. This links into the warehouse management system and the retailer knows that it has the item back in stock and exactly where the item is located.

The next time the item is ordered the picker will pick it from the returned stock in the shelving system rather than the bulk location and the item can be reworked, re-packed etc.

These are just a few examples of how Returns Shelving can help your ecommerce business

ROBOTFLOOR a smooth, light coloured and perfectly flat water-resistant surface.

Avanta UK Ltd is a leading UK based workspace and storage equipment provider, specialising in mezzanine floors to create an environment for autonomous mobile robots. Perfect for ecommerce specialists who need single pick items on a shelf to person basis, saving you time and money.

Whether the AMR is picking pallets, shelving bays or individual totes the Avanta mezzanine floor system is engineered to ensure a safe quite operation of the robotics.

The Avanta turnkey solution can include the design, supply, and installation of a robust strengthened multi-level mezzanine floor with a smooth, light coloured flat coated water-resistant surface and compliant machine mesh guarding complete with access control.

As part of our end-to-end service, we work closely with your robotic provider, and this can include laying the grid and commission the robots.

Avanta UK can provide you with a full Principal Contractor role plus ancillary products and services including heating / cooling, lighting, shelving, chutes and much more.

Warehouse Management Software

Avanta UK recommends Peoplevox, a part of The Descartes Systems Group, is a warehouse management system designed to address the challenges e-commerce warehouses face. It’s built with all the features needed to take you from scale-up to enterprise, ensuring you deliver remarkable customer experience with every order.

Powerful workflows eliminate warehouse chaos, increase speed and efficiency across all warehouse functions, give warehouse managers the control they need over their fulfilment, remove capacity for human error and deliver lifetime ROI.

Peoplevox is built using workflows relevant to your business’s needs to improve the performance of every single function within your warehouse, from goods-in all the way through to dispatch, so you can ship more, ship faster and ship accurately.

Our leading software combined with our team’s expertise in e-commerce means we can help you build the platform you need to grow your business. Benefits of partnering with Peoplevox include:

Peak performance — Remove the chaos from peak periods by eliminating manual processes from your warehouse operations. With our easy-to-use mobile app, you can train staff and have them up and running in a matter of hours, while having visibility of every action in the warehouse, in real time.

Increase the speed — Everything from goods-in through to dispatch runs smoother with Peoplevox. With intelligent pick routing and efficient pick strategies, your team can pick faster and ship more orders per day.

Deliver what your customers want — A smooth running warehouse will be reflected in your positive customer reviews. With a more efficiently run warehouse, you can extend your daily delivery cutoff, allowing you to give your customers the next-day — or even same-day — delivery they desire.