Meter-high rows of shelves, tens of thousands of storage locations, and constantly increasing throughput volumes. Collecting up-to-date and reliable inventory information in high-bay warehouses is no easy task—especially when you have to rely on time-consuming and inefficient manual methods. Counting and documentation errors in manual inventory processes, faulty scanning during storage and retrieval, or the mixing up of pallets or storage locations are not uncommon. Reasons for discrepancies between target and actual inventory can be found in almost all manually performed warehouse processes. And this can have serious consequences for the entire supply chain: bottlenecks and shortages of critical parts that are detected too late, pallets that cannot be found and are urgently awaited by customers, or permanently unused capacities not only result in high costs, but can also permanently jeopardize the competitiveness of companies.

With the use of our doks.inventairy solution, inventory management problems are a thing of the past. The fully automated system records, processes and visualizes inventory data in the high-bay warehouse with high precision and in real time. Technically, this is made possible by the interaction of an autonomously operating ground vehicle and a flying drone, which are connected by a cable. During data acquisition, the system flies to each storage location in the warehouse and records the occupancy of the respective location by automatically reading the labels attached to the stored objects with the help of the integrated barcode scanners. Thanks to the cameras installed in the ground vehicle and the drone, the system also provides high-resolution photos of each storage location recorded. Even empty shelf locations are detected and localized by the system. Best of all, thanks to the system’s complete autonomy and integrated night flight feature, doks.inventairy can be used flexibly and around the clock. Stocktaking at the push of a button, independent of warehouse closing times, holidays and employee availability.

In order to obtain maximum added value from the collected inventory data, it is already intelligently processed during use and prepared and visualized in our digital user interface – and, if desired, also imported directly into existing WM and ERP systems. In addition to a classic inventory list showing the quantities available in the warehouse, doks.inventairy also provides a digital image of each individual shelf. This provides users with insightful information about the entire warehouse structure and a digital twin of their warehouse. Where is each object located? In which shelves are there still free spaces? What do the stored pallets look like? These and many other questions can be answered with a glance at the automatically recorded inventory results. Or in other words – with the use of doks.inventairy, stocktaking and inventory in high-bay warehouses becomes child’s play.