LAPP USA Multiplies Warehouse Counts 13x with Corvus One®

Robert Hoffbauer, Inventory & Quality Control Coordinator, LAPP USA

The drone's preventing delays because we're not having to check all this inventory all the time or go looking for this inventory all the time. It's exactly where it says it should be. Just boom. Grab it and go.

Jason Beltran, Facility Manager, LAPP USA

The Corvus system has been able to help us by providing better service to our customers. Getting the inventory in in real time, seeing where it is, and being able to allocate it right away to the customer is tremendous benefit for us.

For us to really hit our cycle counts and our goals that we needed to, we would have to run usually 3 to 4 people in our inventory team. So once we implemented, the Corvus drone, we were able to reduce the headcount immediately to two people and save that labor to put it, whether it was in a picking project, whether it was in a cutting project, being able to use that labor somewhere else to help that part of the operation.

Robert Hoffbauer, Inventory & Quality Control Coordinator, LAPP USA

Don't have to hop on the scissor lift every single day. I'm hopping on the scissor lift once a week, if that.

Say, on Monday we'll set the drone to fly four flights or so overnight. We'll see what it gave us a discrepancy report for, how many things were missing a label. How many things were in the wrong location. How many extra pieces of material were in a location, and then we're able to do our cycle counts just straight from that count.

Jason Beltran, Facility Manager, LAPP USA

If a picker goes to a location and the item is not there, sometimes that can cause an inventory adjustment out. But being able to reference a camera view from the previous day, or even to set up a customized flight to go and scan that aisle, we're able to find that by using the drone to really narrow down where the last trail of that item was.

With the Corvus drone, we're able to see a wide view location. So being able to verify that all five items are there could stop a cycle count from going up there and validating that information by seeing that whole frame, basically, of the drone going from that whole location and getting that whole view.

Robert Hoffbauer, Inventory & Quality Control Coordinator, LAPP USA

Corvus team is very, very responsive. I can send the text and I'm getting the message same day next day. "Oh yeah. You have this issue it'll be fixed today." Fantastic.

Jason Beltran, Facility Manager, LAPP USA

Those two teams coming together and figuring out how we can customize this to make it work for our operation, I can't say enough about how easy and how quick it was for us to realize the benefits of having a great vendor.