How much efficiency can you gain?
A typical distribution center handles thousands of pieces of freight each day. Ensuring it all flows through smoothly is a complex job — made more difficult by congested docks, pressure to improve production and throughput, and a need to operate more sustainably.
The Vaux Freight Movement System™ makes these goals possible. By exponentially speeding up loading and unloading, it reduces trailer and driver wait times. And with fewer freight touches required, it improves workplace safety and lessens the possibility of damage.
The Vaux MP and MP Coupler make loading and unloading easy
At the core of the Vaux Freight Movement System are our Vaux MP™ and MP Coupler, which enable freight handling operators to rapidly load and unload trailers.
The MP fits perfectly inside a trailer and can be configured in thousands of ways to meet any need. Using a standard forklift equipped with the MP Coupler, the entire MP can be moved in and out of the trailer in one swift motion. With the coupler’s tight turn radius, the MP can easily be moved around the warehouse for working freight.
Outside of the trailer, freight-handling operators have access to all four sides of the MP, allowing them to pull product in seconds and entirely unload in minutes. We call this swarm processing, and it creates remarkable efficiency gains compared to traditional methods, where freight is handled piece by piece and requires multiple touches and staging ahead of time.
The Vaux OS gives real-time insight into freight movement
The MP and MP Coupler connect seamlessly into our customers’ warehouse operations through the Vaux OS™ — our suite of proprietary software that includes warehouse orchestration, operator fulfillment and MP Tracker.
Warehouse orchestration
This “control tower” concept connects the customer’s Warehouse Management System (WMS) to Vaux data and capabilities through APIs. By providing visibility and insight into actions within a warehouse, it empowers warehouse supervisors to make better decisions and more efficiently manage processes.
It also offers decision automation through workflow optimization processes such as:
- Intelligent task interleaving. This reduces deadhead activities by creating opportunities for operators to do multiple jobs concurrently. This way, operators stay busy and get more things done without spending time just going back and forth between tasks.
- Shipment Space Optimization. This reduces training and knowledge requirements for loaders by predicting and sequencing loading operations.
Operator fulfillment
This software is embedded into operator devices and allows users to link shipments to MPs. This enables pick-to-platform and pick-from-platform capabilities and reduces freight handling and time to load and unload.
Supplementing existing WMS capabilities, it also offers the ability to receive shipments loaded on MPs, so workers can quickly update the location of an entire load without requiring an operator to scan each individual shipment into a staging area.
MP Tracker
As the name suggests, this software gives complete visibility into equipment as it leaves the warehouse and travels down the road, regardless of transportation mode.
Interested in learning more?
With Vaux, companies have significant opportunities to enhance the efficiency, safety and visibility of their operations. Learn more about the Freight Movement System and get in touch with our team to find out if Vaux is right for you.
