AutoCase helps banish Black Friday blues for warehouse teams
Even if you are delighted with how the Black Friday and Christmas Peak season is going at your warehouse facilities, it’s likely that you have frequent headaches to deal with.
THESE INCLUDE managing increased inventory smoothly within your existing footprint, running that inventory through the warehouse without glitches, and juggling staff resource and shift patterns appropriately to meet unpredictable delivery times. As if that’s not enough, you want to provide the customer service excellence you demand of both yourself and your teams – and that’s not always easy when regular patterns are disrupted.
True warehouse efficiency: throughput and scale
True warehouse efficiency is only achieved when you can be fully confident about two key factors: your ability to manage throughput reliably and accurately in any circumstances and the warehouse’s capacity to operate cost-effectively at the scale required by customers.
AutoStore’s famous Cube system has been helping businesses to automate and orchestrate order fulfilment since 1995. The goal is simple – to ensure orders arrive at their destination faster than ever, with unprecedented levels of accuracy. With over 1,750 sites installed in 60 countries, AutoStore is a global success story. In the UK, there are already over 60 sites in operation, and the number is growing fast.
The enhancements added to the AutoStore System for 2026 are designed to help you meet throughput and scalability objectives, all without the expense of increasing footprint. AutoCase provides a key example.
AutoCase delivers fast, flexible and simple automated case handling for your warehouse. The benefits are end-to-end control, flexible scalability, and enhanced labour costs and safety.
With AutoCase, you can streamline inbound, storage, picking, and packing — processing 150 to 260 cases per hour — without the complexity of traditional systems and all within a single, high-density modular grid. AutoCase uses an advanced clamp-and-push mechanism, enabling cases to be loaded securely, smoothly, and completely hands-free.
At a stroke, the warehouse gains efficient operations, strong order consolidation, and adaptable workflows for any case profile. Manual handling of heavy loads is eliminated, enhancing safety and cutting volatile labour costs.
Lower TCO via unified automation
Automation is unified, because you can now handle cases and single items in a single, high-density system. You no longer need to split SKUs or rely on separate technologies such as shuttles, mini-loads or racking. The benefit is technology consolidation, reducing vendor complexity, integration time and operational risk in the warehouse. Fewer systems mean faster deployments and lower total cost of ownership.
Flexible scalability for Black Friday and seasonal peaks
High-speed case handling – including storage, retrieval and sequencing of cases and single items – enables you to cope effectively with seasonal spikes. Dynamic allocation of AutoStore’s famous Bins optimises storage of both cases and items, maximising your warehouse footprint.
Maximum uptime and reliability
With secure, gentle handling ensuring protection of sensitive SKUs, superior bin-based tracking eliminating barcode-related errors and manual exception handling, plus maximum uptime provided because friction and misalignment are reduced by AutoStore’s movable Bin bottom, AutoCase is the space-efficient route to a fully-efficient, cost-effective warehouse – at any time of the year.
