Dermalogica Deploys Corvus One® Autonomous Inventory Management System at Global HQ
Continuous warehouse visibility protects revenue and tightens production forecasting across retail, wholesale, e-commerce, and professional treatment channels.
Dermalogica video transcript
Jason Brown, Director of U.S. Logistics, Dermalogica
The biggest financial impact is not having missing inventory. If we can't find something, we can't sell it. And it's really tough to recoup from that kind of lost sales opportunity.
Our products are very valuable, and so we build our products to a specific sales forecast with very little buffer room. We're going to sell everything that we manufacture.
Mark Simeon, Inventory Supervisor, Dermalogica
The way we used to do inventory was very manual before the drone. You know, I usually have one cycle counter and it probably takes him about two months to finish the cycle count.
Jason Brown, Director of U.S. Logistics, Dermalogica
Now with Corvus One, we were able to repurpose that person for about 75% of what they're doing, and that's freed up about 120 hours for that employee to be doing something else per month.
Tony Esquith, Director of Enterprise Accounts, Corvus Robotics
We deployed on a Monday. Two weeks later, we're handing the keys over to the customer, and they are using the system to find inventory.
Jason Brown, Director of U.S. Logistics, Dermalogica
Putting in the Corvus One was undisruptive to our business. We basically got it done during working hours without any downtime at all.
5 p.m. and 5 a.m. is totally drone time. We're imaging the warehouse 52 times a year, which is about a 600% improvement on what we had done manually.
The occupancy reporting is best for inventory planning. With the Corvus drone, we know what our capacity is, so we know what we have in terms of open space.
Mark Simeon, Inventory Supervisor, Dermalogica
I like the Corvus drone because it makes my job easier. It keeps our inventory accurate.
Jason Brown, Director of U.S. Logistics, Dermalogica
I would tell people that the investment in Corvus is absolutely worth it. I try to brag about this technology all the time to everybody I can.
I've had multiple people in to basically see the drone. Everybody thinks it's very cool, and then we show them what the images look like, what the recording looks like, what we can do with it, how much labor it saves us on this one specific aspect. It's a no brainer for anybody.
Overview
Dermalogica manufactures and distributes professional skincare products from its global headquarters in Carson, California, serving retail, wholesale, e-commerce, and professional treatment channels worldwide. The company builds to tight sales forecasts with minimal buffer inventory, making accurate, reliable warehouse visibility essential. In this environment, missing inventory is not an inconvenience. It directly impacts revenue and fulfillment performance.
The Challenges
- Manual Cycle Counting: Inventory validation required a dedicated resource performing daily counts across thousands of locations.
- Stale Inventory Data: A full warehouse pass took up to two months, leaving long gaps between fresh facility-wide data.
- Forecast Risk: Inventory discrepancies created risk between sales forecasts and production output in a tight-buffer manufacturing model.
The Corvus Solution
Dermalogica deployed the Corvus One Autonomous Inventory Management System inside its Carson distribution center. Corvus One brings Physical AI to warehouse operations, running in GPS-denied environments with onboard AI and computer vision and feeding consistent inventory and occupancy data into the AIMS platform. The system runs without human pilots or infrastructure modifications, performing scans outside active picking hours. Deployment was completed during working hours with no operational downtime.
The Impact
- 600% Increase in Imaging Frequency: 52 full-warehouse scans per year, up from a single six-week manual cycle.
- 120 Labor Hours Reallocated Per Month: Time previously dedicated to cycle counting has been redirected to higher-value operational work.
- Improved Inventory Accuracy: More frequent validation reduces the risk of missing inventory and strengthens confidence in on-hand counts.
- Revenue Protection: When inventory cannot be located, it cannot be sold. Increased accuracy ensures manufactured product remains available for allocation and shipment.
- Stronger Forecast Alignment: Continuous visibility supports tighter coordination between sales planning, manufacturing output, and warehouse execution.
Corvus Robotics has become a valuable partner in modernizing our inventory management. Corvus One delivers the consistent accuracy we need to protect revenue and operate to tight forecasts. With continuous warehouse visibility, we can sell what we produce with confidence and plan future growth on a stronger operational foundation.
Continuous Visibility Without Operational Complexity
For global brands distributing across multiple channels, inventory accuracy is directly tied to revenue performance and production planning. Periodic manual counts introduce delay and risk in forecast-driven environments.
Dermalogica's deployment demonstrates how autonomous inventory systems can:
- Increase validation frequency without increasing labor
- Operate without interrupting live warehouse throughput
- Eliminate dependency on manual cycle counting
- Improve alignment between sales forecasts and manufacturing plans
- Protect revenue in high-value, tight-buffer production models
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