A presentation by Rainer Buchmann, President, SSI Schäfer Peem GmbH, Germany, delivered during the 38th annual SAPICS 2016 event in Sun City, South Africa.

In recent years, purchasing behaviors have been changing significantly. The impacts of demands like next-day, even same-day shipping, perfect accuracy and returns handling are presenting new challenges to the distribution of goods that require modern technology to stay competitive. Not only the demand for greater efficiency, economy and productivity leads to automation and innovation, but rather the need for speed and quality. This presentation will point out how to leverage automation in E-Commerce distribution and will give you an overview about existing and future opportunities of application through representative best-practice reference installations from all over the world.