Automation: Cosmetics sector’s great ally
Did you know Spain is the second world power in perfume exportation?
This fact provided by STANPA, National Association of Perfumery and Cosmetics Industry, helps us get an idea of the weight of the cosmetics sector in the Spanish economy.
Actually, in 2021, this sector achieved a turnout of 8.200 million euros, 7% more than the previous year.
Regarding exportation, the cosmetics industry already exceeds such paradigmatic sectors as wine or olive oil. Specifically, in 2021, the exports amounted to 5.384 million.
In other words: if there is something that Spain understands perfectly is that beauty sells, and sells a lot.
As this sector keeps on growing and promises great results in the future, so do the logistics challenges related to this activity.
Energy price escalation, raw material crisis, current socio political conflicts and property high prices, both to rent and buy, imply a challenge to keep profitability of any productive company.
And one of the principal solutions to adjust processes so that the expenses do not skyrocket in any sector is automation. But let’s have a look at what advantages we are talking about in the particular case of the sector being analysed in this article.
Benefits of warehouse automation in the cosmetics industry:
1. Improves the efficiency of storage processes by increasing their speed and eliminating errors originated in human factor.
2. Optimises storage space at the moment when, as we could see, property price tends to be high. Specially, a good design and implementation of robotics allow to save up to 70% of space.
3. Robotics and automation take on repetitive and tiring tasks for workers so that they can devote themselves to more valuable tasks and to improve their work conditions.
4. Offers major precision of stock management, product tracking and so on, since the robotics technology can be connected to ERP or WMS systems of the company.
5. Also allows better adequacy to regulatory standards, such as, for example, those related to product tracking.
6. Improves efficiency of storage and distribution processes, which allows simpler scalability and expansion of the business.
7. Also enhances the final customer experience by guaranteeing faster and more precise goods delivery.
Summarising: the technologies related to robotics and automation have a lot to offer in the logistics area of any production sector and namely to the cosmetics industry, the industry which has achieved a fundamental role in Spain.
And on account of it, in Nordlogway, we advise that you count with a logistics partner which is committed to innovation, willing to adopt the latest technologies of the market in order to be able to offer you the highest profitability of your logistics processes.
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