Warehouse automation by drone at Bayer

Find out how Bayer improves performance and productivity with drone inventory.

Our client

The Villefranche-Limas industrial warehouse is one of Bayer CropScience’s main research and development centers in Europe.

The Limas facility is dedicated to the research and development of new crop protection solutions, with a focus on the discovery of new chemical and biological products, as well as the development of new agricultural technologies. The facility includes a formulation and packaging plant, whose role is to process an active ingredient into a marketable finished product.

Key facts and figures :

300 employees
3×8, 5 to 7 days a week
35,000 tons produced
10,000 orders processed each year by the logistics department

Overview of the project

The group’s main objective was to carry out more reliable inventory checks without stopping the supply chain (in order to avoid supply disruptions).
Before EYESEE, inventories were handled manually by forklift operators, using a forklift (1 person per forklift) and a barcode reader.

Inventory should be run on 10% of stock per month (around 1,000 locations/month) in order to reach 100% of stock at the end of the year.
Average 100 locations/hour.

Goals

Avoid supply chain breakdowns during inventories

Focus your teams on higher value-added activities

Make inventory data more reliable

Improve the safety and ergonomics of the operators work to carry out the inventory

"The ease of interconnection with business applications (SAP) and information systems today make it a tool for operational efficiency and a support tool for the digital transformation of 4.0 logistics. Today, EYESEE enables us to make inventories faster, with more reliable stock data and employees who are more motivated to carry out this task."

Jérémy Bouvier

Head of Stock Management

Results

Today, the solution is used all year round: since 2021, the warehouse has switched to cycle inventory and uses EYESEE on a regular basis.

The solution enables the Bayer plant to:

Avoid activity interruptions
Improve inventory quality
Improve safety
Track raw materials with more accuracy (and potentially more efficient purchasing)
Check stock levels and correct errors throughout the year

Key figures

100% pallet reading rate
An average of 400 pallets per hour
An average of 10 seconds per location
100% reduction in work-related accidents during inventories

Jérémy Bouvier – Head of Stock Management at Bayer

Warehouse automation by drone at Bayer

Our client

Key facts and figures :

Overview of the project

Goals

Avoid supply chain breakdowns during inventories

Focus your teams on higher value-added activities

Make inventory data more reliable

Improve the safety and ergonomics of the operators work to carry out the inventory

Results

Key figures

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