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Meeting the Fulfillment Challenge:
The Kiva Mobile Fulfillment System (Kiva MFS) uses a breakthrough parallel processing approach to order fulfillment. Our unique material handling system simultaneously improves productivity, speed, accuracy, and flexibility. Kiva’s total order fulfillment automation solution is sometimes compared to an automated storage and retrieval system (AS/RS), but it’s so much more – more flexible, more accurate, more productive, much easier to use and more cost effective. Kiva is an order picking system like no other.
Every distribution center (DC) strives to attain flexible, efficient order fulfillment but struggles with the limitations of current tools. Traditional automation and sortation systems such as conveyors, tilt tray sorters, sliding shoe sorters, horizontal and vertical carousels and other automated material handling systems simply tinker with Henry Ford's serial assembly line concept. Kiva Systems has created an innovative order fulfillment system that eliminates the constraints of existing warehouse automation and puts you back in control.
In Distribution centers, warehouses and manufacturing plants equipped with the Kiva MFS, operators stand still while the products come to them. Pallets, cases, and orders are stored on inventory pods that are picked up and moved by a fleet of mobile robotic drive units. As a result, any product can go to any operator at any time to fill any order.
Applications

Mick Mountz, chief executive officer of Kiva Systems was featured on Bloomberg TV's Venture: The World of Entrepreneurship a weekly program focusing on small business

Kiva was recently featured on The Works, Robot episode
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Quiet Logistics Adds Fulfillment Capacity from Kiva Systems to Accommodate Rapid Growth
June 30, 2009
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Annual Fab 50 + 1
WorldTrade Magazine
June 10, 2009
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The Big Send-Off
- To fulfill through an outsourcing partner, first pick and pack the right criteria
InternetRetailer.com
June 2009
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How Kiva Robots Help Zappos and Walgreens
BusinessWeek
April 16, 2009
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Bot-In-Time Delivery
Forbes Magazine
March 16, 2009
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Kiva Systems Chosen by Walgreens to Double Distribution Center Capacity
March 11, 2009
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