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Grocery is a retail category like no other, with high-turnover, high-frequency fresh goods ordered in large quantities. Oda Systems is specifically designed to meet these unique challenges as a holistic system working in concert. Our systems cover all stages of the value chain, from receiving products all the way through to delivering to the customer’s doorstep.

Inventory

Maintain full control over your product inventory. Sync to storefronts in real time. Move and restock products more efficiently with AI-powered dynamic storage and smart restock.

Incoming

Designed specifically for high-throughput and fresh products, you can be sure that what you receive is what you ordered.

  • Use manual or automated split-station options, depending on your desired throughput
  • Support receiving full and mixed pallets of products to picking
  • Immediately identify deviations with integrated quality control, purchase order, and country-of-origin checks
  • Fast-track products to picking with integrated connection to current order groups
Dynamic storage and restock

Manage your inventory with our AI algorithms to optimize storage placement and transport distances based on predictive order demands.

  • Experience dramatically lower spoilage with real-time inventory and forecasting
  • Simplify and streamline operator workflows with extremely intuitive and easy-to-use applications
  • Get reports in real time on stock availability, freshness and product data to eCommerce shopfronts with our API
  • Optimize operator efficiency with just-in-time restock of picking shelves
  • Manage all your inventory checks and processes in one place
  • Follow First In, First Out (FIFO) principles
  • Gain better oversight with full traceability from suppliers to the end customer
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Fulfillment

Oda Systems’ star player is our conveyor-based zone picking system, the “just-right” solution for high-speed fulfillment of large grocery orders.

Fast, efficient picking

Designed specifically for ultra-efficient picking of popular products with high quality, our conveyor-based picking lines use a team-based workflow. Our fast, intuitive consumer-grade UI supports a healthy, ergonomic workflow for your operators.

  • Over 500 picks per operator, per hour
  • Highly resilient to volume variation with no loss in efficiency
  • Standard mechanization hardware means high reliability and easy maintenance
  • Our team-based processes result in higher engagement and flexibility
  • Optimized shelf placements and order release with our proprietary AI
Freeze picking

The Oda Systems picking system is designed specifically for sub-zero environments.

  • A trolley-picking workflow that balances efficiency with high reliability in this extreme environment
  • Separate temperature zones for picking and fulfillment to reduce freeze-temp exposure hours
  • Ergonomics and interfaces designed for gloves and low temperatures
Fulfillment operations command

You’ll have total control over all aspects of your fulfillment operations, with easy-to-read analytics, centralized controls, and integrations to your existing systems.

  • Real-time flow monitoring by zone, line and operator
  • Capacity and blockage alerts
  • Centralized configuration of fulfillment rules and alerts
  • Integrated alerting and reporting to external and on-call tech systems
  • Simple to use and understand, reducing onboarding and training time
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Terminal

Sort, stack and load orders onto pallets and vehicles with our highly automated systems. Loading takes half the time compared to typical systems, which means your orders are evacuated quickly and your drivers are on the road with not a minute wasted.

Sort and stack

Your orders are collected by route, sequenced, placed on pallets and secured for delivery. There is close to no manual work required, resulting in hazard-free uniform processes.

  • Refined and reliable with all unnecessary movement eliminated, the smooth movements protect fragile goods from damage
  • Intelligent load stacking balances orders and pallets for optimal weight distribution
  • Automations eliminate the common ergonomic pain point that comes with moving full orders
Terminal loading

Oda Systems uses a dual-temperature terminal design paired with multi-temp, active or passive cooled vehicles cabinet to maintain optimal product temperatures all the way to your customers’ doorsteps.

  • Pallets brought directly to gates for loading
  • Dual-temp (ambient and cold) layout using cooling tunnels and gravity lanes
  • Easy upscaling with 720 standard pallet locations
  • Simultaneous terminal and vehicle design where the gate design reduces weight on vehicles
  • Route departures algorithmically planned by time and gate
  • Optional autonomous forklift deployment for even greater efficiency
Long-distance distribution points

Extend the range of your delivery offering while keeping costs down by using Distribution Points (DiPs) as long-distance depots.

  • Linehaul vehicles are loaded at central fulfillment center with orders for multiple routes, then last-mile vehicles load and return to DiPs
  • Follow the Oda Systems distribution points blueprint or utilize your existing sites
  • Choose between single- or dual-temp line-haul vehicle configurations
  • Full software support for line-haul terminal, loading and tracking processes
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Last-mile delivery

World-leading performance in route optimization and vehicle utilization can slash delivery costs. Real-time tracking and precise on-time deliveries. On-road tools that flow with drivers. It’s a win-win-win for you, your drivers, and your customers.

Route planning

Our proprietary route planning optimization system, specifically designed for grocery deliveries, is the best in its class, featuring:

  • A route planning system that can handle any number of orders over large geographical areas
  • Cutting-edge route efficiency levels, achieving 4.7 stops per on-road hour in Eastern Norway (an area with low population density compared to many other areas)
  • The ability to handle multiple distribution points, customer delivery slot windows, vehicle capacity limits, heterogenous vehicles, dispatch constraints, driver pause restrictions, electrical vehicle requirements and more
  • Customer service and driving times continually updated with ML-models ensuring high delivery efficiency and on-time delivery to customers
  • Optional continuous route planning simulations for better capacity management towards customer order cut-off
Delivery offering and capacity management

Oda Systems enables you to create a broad, highly flexible delivery offering to your customers while balancing demand through pricing and capacity.

  • Configure your delivery offering through an intuitive map-based interface, and set delivery areas using the H3 Spatial Index system
  • Configure and manage delivery slot prices, capacity and customer cut-off times by customer type and geographical location
  • Use our simple APIs to show currently available delivery slots to customers in your eCommerce platform
  • Plan driver and vehicle capacity to match customer demand without unnecessary capacity buffers
Driver and delivery operations

Maintain full control over progress and issues with all deliveries, drivers, vehicles and routes in order to instantly respond to accidents, weather challenges, traffic problems, route delays and other deviations. Our consumer-grade driver tools make deliveries efficient and reliable for your customers.

  • Ease load and stress with Oda systems cardboard boxes on pallets,  enabling fast loading of vehicles (10 mins), without plastic boxes for drivers to deal with in the cargo hold and post-route
  • Manage and monitor yard and route dispatch flow for efficient loading and delay prevention
  • Track progress on all routes with on-road monitoring to highlight routes with deviations and delays
  • Plan and manage drivers who are helping out on regular routes that are delayed
  • Make the workday simpler and easier for your drivers with our consumer-grade driver app, designed and improved through years of close collaboration with Oda drivers
  • Track performance on both an aggregate and individual level with delivery and driver metric reporting
  • Manage drivers, contracts and invoices and route assignment through our portal for 3rd-party transport partners
Customer delivery experience

Give your customers real-time order visibility, updates about delays, and a worry-free delivery experience that exceeds their highest expectations.

  • Provide an estimated 1-hour delivery window to customers once each route plan is established
  • Improve customer communications with a tried and tested notifications blueprint for best-practice order updates using SMS, push, and live activity widgets
  • Support personal delivery, doorstep/unattended deliveries, and safe delivery of restricted products like alcohol and medicines
  • Boost your customer service offering with access to delivery monitoring  and status to enable quick resolution of problems in real time
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Configurable and scalable, Oda Systems can be tailored to match your existing customer offering, volume, and local market.

Inventory

  • Supports full-range supermarket assortment size of over 20k SKUs across cold, dry and freeze
  • Adaptable to local market requirements for handling of specific SKUs, security, temperature storage, packing and delivery
  • Incoming scales from manual to automated as inbound volume increases

Fulfillment

  • Scalable throughput based on station count and increasing the number of picking lines
  • Configurable substitution and crediting rules
  • Configurable with 1-3 staff shifts per day
  • Opportunities to extend into in-house production (bakery, ready-made foods)

Last-mile

  • Use an existing fleet or the Oda vehicle spec
  • Compatible with 1-temp active, 2-temp active, or passive cooling vehicles
  • Supports in-house or 3rd party driver teams
  • Distribution points and line-haul transport for a broader delivery offering
  • Next-day and same-day delivery options

Want to know more?

The right solution looks different for every situation and every market. Get in touch with us to explore how Oda Systems can be configured to meet your unique goals and challenges.

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