Inventory counting drone
Nowadays, every organization needs accurate data of available stock for managing the smooth operation of an organization. The perfect inventory list is the most important assets for business. The manager and other decision maker need an accurate stock list about how much stock available and where for reducing the time of management. But, stock counting of the warehouse is time-consuming. Physical inventory counting required more human. Sometimes manual counting provides inaccurate data. sometimes the company lost money because of the faulty inventory record. So, recently many organization need an automatic and technical solution for inventory counting.
Product profile: - Inventory counting drone is the best technology for counting inventory. It is an automatic and accurate count of stock. This provides an accurate and fast result of inventory and this is also safer than physical counting. The drone is not required human for holding a scanner and scan the product. Two drone finish work of 100 workers.
Features of the inventory counting drone
1. Real-time
data control
The drone equipped with cloud base
system. So, it is easily providing real-time data of warehouse.
2.
Indoor
navigation
The drone has a GPS tracking system and
a barcode reader. It is read all product barcode inside the warehouse.
3.
Autonomous
operation
Drone used the web-based system for
creating a data list and send that list to the warehouse management system.
4.
Precision
Landing and Hover
The work environment is set on a drone
with the GPS system. it works on the sequence which is set on the GPS.
Idea generation of drone
Understanding the problem
Nowadays, Inventory counting is a big problem for business. Sometimes physical stock counting provides an inaccurate result of available stock. It is also tacked overtime cost. Some organization stops their operation to calculate the stock.
External search
In manual inventory, counting has a risk of human error. Sometimes people forgot to scene some item or make mistake in calculating the number of products. It is difficult to share inventory list to the whole organization.
Internal search
To overcome this problem drone is the best technology. Drone automatically create a list of available stock and position and send that information to the Warehouse management system. This technology does not require any human being.
Systematic exploration
In physical stock counting required human, barcode list of products, a scanner for scanning the product and product list for managing the product available stock. But drone includes this all facility in one drone and it has a camera for scanning the product. The drone gives the same stock result, but it is an accurate result than human, and it sends the product list to another department.
Operation strategies
1. Product and Pallet mapping across the warehouse
The first step of using the drone for cycle count is to set the environment of the warehouse. Set the GPS system and map of the warehouse in the drone. Put all pallet of the product in one sequence. Not put any product or pallet behind another pallet. The warehouse mapping is important information for drone because it follows the GPS tracking system.
2. Barcoding to the product
After mapping of the warehouse, the other step is to put the barcode on each product and pallet. The drone is counting the product based on the barcode. The drone cannot able to read barcode behind the other product.
3. Install RFID, and barcoding sensor capabilities drone
After managing the environment for the drone, the next step is to install the RFID (radio-frequency identification) and barcoding sensor capabilities drone in the warehouse. The product barcode list set in the drone.
4. Navigate, identify inventory, determine inventory location
The lightweight drone flies in the warehouse. It has RFID technology which made scanning easy. The drone fly in the warehouse environment than navigate and identify the inventory, determine the location and product number. The drone equipped with a camera and sensor which help to recognize the image.
5. Shares information with the WMS
After finishing the scanning process, the drone prepares the data list of available stock. The data list automatically to the WMS (warehouse management system) for further use. This application saves time and money of organization.
Marketing strategy
Marketing strategy includes the place, price, product, and promotional tools for the selling of the product.
Product
Inventory counting drone is modern technology which helps
to count the stock of warehouse without any human.
Price
The price includes the installation price of the drone and
the GPS mapping system price.
Place
The best place of marketing the product is business which
has a big warehouse with many products. The retail sector, cosmetic sector, and
the fashion industry have many products that’s why it is the best place for the
inventory counting drone.
Promotion
The best way of advertising is social media like Email,
Facebook or online advertisement.
Advantages of drone
Ø Zero
Human injury
Every task of inventory counting is done by drone so no need to
send human fifty to twenty feet above. It reduces the risk of injury during
work.
Ø Quicker
& Cheaper Operations
The drone completes the work of 100 employees, so it saves the
time of organization. Business has no need to stop their operation and it is
working faster than human so it saves money of business.
Ø Efficient
Operations
Drone automatically update all data regarding stock in warehouse
system. This feature makes business operation fast and efficient.
Ø Error
Mitigation
Drone automatically check all stock on a regular interval that’s
why it reduces the error of warehouse stock.
Conclusion
The use of drone inventory
counting technology is better than the physical counting. It reduces the human
effort of the scene the product and reduces the risk of human injury because of
no need to use the forklift for counting upper side inventory. This is a fast
and accurate method of the stock count. It is cheaper than physical counting.
In addition, when the organization uses the drone they no need to stop the
operation of an organization. It is an easy method, so cycle counting is done
weekly or monthly basis. Overall drone technology help to make an easy and
smooth operation of stock counting which is most beneficial for business.
References
(2018). Retrieved from warehouse drone:
https://www.pinc.com/warehouse-drone-inventory-management
yearling. (2016, 11 29). Retrieved from You can’t
really count on cycle counting. :
https://logisticsviewpoints.com/2016/11/29/you-cant-really-count-on-cycle-counting/
