even Report #2: Everything About Automated Small Parts Warehouse Systems
Know-How and Know-Why for logistics decision-makers on the topic of automated small parts warehouses: Download for free now!
Automated small parts warehouses are considered efficiency drivers in logistics, yet practice shows that many projects fail at the fundamentals: incorrect assumptions in planning, unclear volumes, underestimated performance limits or systems that cannot scale later. At the same time, new opportunities are emerging through modern robotics, flexible scalability and data-driven decisions.
The second even Report sheds light on exactly this reality: What actually works? What risks are lurking? And how do you plan an automated small parts warehouse so that it holds up today and tomorrow?
It brings together knowledge from specialist articles, interviews and practice-oriented editorial pieces, from the first pain points in the warehouse through to design and cost-effectiveness, all the way to operations, maintenance and sustainability.
What to expect in the Report
1. When the warehouse reaches its limits
Which symptoms indicate that your own small parts warehouse is hitting performance, process or growth limits, and what typically triggers automation projects.
2. Triggers and business cases
When automation truly makes sense, what business cases are built on, and which pitfalls many companies only recognise too late.
3. Alternative paths: optimising a manual warehouse
Why optimisation instead of automation is sometimes the better, faster and more cost-effective path.
4. Low-cost automation
What options exist to start automation in a pragmatic, modular and cost-efficient way.
5. Planning and dimensioning
Concrete expertise from practice: SKU profiles, order load, service levels, performance calculation, layout, space and temperature requirements, as well as expandability and lifecycle design.
6. Cost-effectiveness and ROI
RaaS as a model, cost logic, amortisation and risks. assessed honestly, soberly and independently.
7. Implementation and testing
Brownfield vs. greenfield, test strategies, virtual run-throughs and typical challenges before go-live.
8. Operations and further development
Performance metrics, scalability, system growth and professional maintenance during ongoing operations.
9. Sustainability and human-machine
Material selection, energy consumption, CO₂ impact, recyclability as well as ergonomics, reach heights and safely designed workplaces.
10. Future outlook and forecasts
What the industry expects up to 2029: technological developments, market trends and perspectives from vendor interviews.
11. Tools and extras
Self-checks, checklists, roadmap, evaluations from the community.
Why you should read the Report
With the even Report you receive not a loose collection of specialist articles, but a tool that guides you from the first gut feeling to a well-founded decision:
• You understand which systems exist and which ones actually work for your volume.
• You learn how to plan, test and dimension automated small parts warehouses properly.
• You gain in-depth expert knowledge first-hand, critically reviewed and clearly contextualised.
• You see which trends are changing the market and which technologies promise more than they deliver.
• And you discover how sustainable automated small parts warehouses must be conceived so that they hold up not only today, but also tomorrow.
Why a Report, and why this topic?
The selection and implementation of automated small parts warehouses is one of the most strategically important decisions in modern logistics processes, and at the same time one that carries enormous risk. Many companies invest six to seven-figure sums without planning, design or operations being properly thought through.
This Report provides orientation: independent, practice-oriented and backed by experience from projects and the expertise of many specialists.
"For me it feels every time like a puzzle: piece by piece a picture comes together, but the pieces come from very different people with very different perspectives.
. Andreas Löwe, Founder of even
Many thanks for the valuable input:
NEOintralogistics, Gebhardt, Volume, SSI Schäfer, Exotec, Kompass350Grad, Autostore, Jungheinrich, Noyes, Libiao, Movu Robotics, MainturaTech, Timo Landener and Sascha Hoog
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