Case Study: Dematic achieves micro-fulfillment workforce optimization with AnyLogic

Creating a Workforce Optimization Model for a Micro-Fulfillment Center

Dematic used AnyLogic Simulation Software to address the challenge of staffing micro-fulfillment centers that combine automated and manual picking. Grocery retailers needed a better way to plan labor, avoid understaffing and bottlenecks, and keep up with online order demand, especially when equipment or process steps failed.

Using AnyLogic, Dematic built a workforce optimization model in the AnyLogic Cloud that integrated inventory, picking, and delivery flows. The solution lets users upload real order data, test staffing scenarios, adjust priorities, and visualize operations in 2D and 3D. AnyLogic helped Dematic deliver hour-by-hour workforce and facility insights, identify staffing needs and bottlenecks, and improve communication with a clear visual model.

Dematic

Stephen E. Hoffman

Dematic