Case Study: Dermalogica protects revenue and improves inventory visibility with Corvus Robotics' Corvus One autonomous inventory drones

Dermalogica boosts warehouse imaging 600% with Corvus Robotics

The global skincare company Dermalogica, owned by Unilever, faced significant challenges with its manual inventory counting process at its Carson, California headquarters warehouse. Operating with minimal buffer inventory built to tight sales forecasts, the company risked lost revenue if products could not be located. Their previous method involved a dedicated employee spending up to two months on a single cycle count, leading to stale data and forecast inaccuracies. To address this, Dermalogica turned to Corvus Robotics for a solution.

Corvus Robotics implemented its Corvus One autonomous inventory management system, which uses drones to autonomously scan the warehouse overnight without requiring infrastructure changes. The deployment was completed during business hours with no operational downtime. The solution delivered substantial results for Dermalogica, including a 600% increase in imaging frequency to 52 full-warehouse scans per year. This allowed the company to reallocate 120 labor hours per month to other tasks, significantly improve inventory accuracy, and protect revenue by ensuring all manufactured products could be found and sold.

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