 |
Home | |
Solution | |
About Us | |
News | |
Contact Us |
 |
 |
|
 |
|||||||||||||||||||||
About Us> Kiva Systems Company HistoryFounded in 2003, Kiva Systems is focused on solving real problems in the supply chain. Founder and CEO Mick Mountz experienced the challenges of existing material handling systems firsthand while working at online grocer Webvan. The complexity of existing material handling equipment and processes and the resulting high cost of order fulfillment ultimately was the downfall of Webvan. It occurred to Mick that there must be a better way to accomplish pick, pack and ship.
Today, Kiva Systems applies the concepts of "distributed intelligence" to order fulfillment and inventory management using break through material handling systems and order fulfillment software. Inspired by ant colonies capable of performing large and complex tasks with limited central control, the Kiva system allows inventory to organize itself, adapting to conditions as they change. The resulting solution combines store, move and sort functions into one simple system that can now deliver any item to any operator at any time.
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
|
Office Depot Offically Opens Company's New State-Of-the-Art Combination Warehouse The Founders Behind Diapers.com Launch Soap.com: “All The Robots Are In Place” Soon, That Nearby Worker Might Be a Robot Responsive Supply Chains Thru Flexible Warehouses Luxury Brand Milly Implements Robotic Order Fulfillment Kiva Systems robots now pick up trash Diapers.com Rocks Online Retailing Kiva Systems ranks #6 on 2009’s Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing companies in America.
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
Mick
then asked himself the simple question, "What if all the products
in the warehouse could walk and talk on their own, couldn't they
just come to me when I need to fill an order?" To pursue this idea, he sought the help of two experts in the area of complex multi-agent systems, Professors Peter Wurman and Raffaello D'Andrea, and together they began to develop the Kiva Systems concept.