Musinsa joined hands with French Exotec, a global player in logistics automation, to upgrade its infrastructure.
Musinsa's logistics subsidiary, Musinsa Logistics, said on the 24th it will introduce Exotec's 3D logistics solution, the "Skypod" system, at its logistics center in Yeoju, Gyeonggi Province, which opens in the first half of next year.
Skypod is based on 3D mobile robots that move freely across ground and vertical spaces inside a warehouse. It can travel at a high speed of 4 m per second and perform vertical picking from racks up to 14 meters (m) high, allowing high-rise fashion logistics centers to handle larger volumes.
Musinsa Logistics plans to improve the speed and accuracy of picking and packing and to secure efficiency in inventory management and workforce operations at the same time through the introduction of Skypod. In particular, it will apply a flexible design that can expand robots in stages in line with rising throughput, with the aim of responding to future business growth.
A Musinsa official said, "This is part of Musinsa Logistics' logistics innovation strategy to strengthen competitiveness in the domestic and global fashion markets," adding, "We adopted an automation solution to efficiently manage an inventory of more than 200,000 complex fashion SKUs and to respond flexibly to seasonal fluctuations in throughput."