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Santa Clara , CA (March 21, 2022)
Vimaan today announces DockTRACK, a revolutionary solution that addresses longstanding receiving and shipping challenges at warehouses. Informed by everyday losses and delays faced by the industry, DockTRACK is an automated solution that delivers an unprecedented level of inventory visibility, tracking and quality control for goods entering and leaving the warehouse.
Unlike traditional processes that use humans or “scan tunnels” to scan barcodes for receiving or shipping workflows, DockTrack captures the entire item in 3D, and extracts all visible label information including barcodes, human readable text, dimensions, and quality metrics such as package damage or discoloring. DockTRACK automatically validates incoming or outgoing inventory against the WMS, ASN, or packing slip, and highlights discrepancies – thus providing near-instant notification of discrepant receipts and correcting shipment errors. DockTRACK also provides searchable photographic archives of every receipt or shipment to minimize claims related processing charges.
“Today’s manual barcode scanning processes for receiving and shipping are not only inefficient; often, the poor quality of the barcodes coming into the facility can result in “no reads”, manual handling, and lost products,” said Philip Archambault, Chief Revenue Officer at Vimaan. “With DockTrack, the package can be identified even if the barcode doesn’t read or doesn’t exist, increasing traceability significantly by physically identifying the product with advanced AI methods. Additionally, DockTrack identifies quality issues, thus eliminating the receipt or shipment of damaged goods. Each condition can be viewed and discrepancies against the manifest can be resolved to enable operations to get to 100% inventory accuracy.”
“Our customers have experienced firsthand the bottlenecks that occur during receiving and shipping at their warehouses,” continued Archambault. “DockTRACK’s ease of deployment, speed, accuracy, versatility and short ROI timeframes have allowed us to rapidly launch at multiple Fortune 500 customer sites. Warehouses need more than barcode reading technology to accurately identify and deliver the inventory truth to a customer’s WMS.”
DockTRACK supports multiple receiving and shipping workflows – including pallets on forklifts or pallet-jacks at dock doors; parcels or packages on conveyor belts or table tops; and pallets being built at palletizing machines. Like StorTRACK, Vimaan’s solution for inventory storage management and cycle counting, DockTRACK leverages Vimaan’s powerful platform of sensors, cameras, sophisticated computer vision algorithms, a WMS integration layer, and an intuitive, easy to use app, ViewDeck, that is accessible by inventory management personnel.
All Vimaan current and future solutions are designed to support easy integration into existing workflows, with little to no infrastructure changes or training required for the warehouse workforce. Vimaan plans to launch additional products this year to complement DockTRACK and StorTRACK to deliver similar inventory tracking and validation within the four walls of the warehouse.
Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Vimaan’s team comprises computer vision and hardware technologists and warehousing domain experts with a rich and successful history in technology startups. Vimaan’s primary mission is to deliver computer vision and machine learning solutions to solve long-standing inventory visibility, accuracy and quality challenges experienced in the supply chain.
Media Contact: Craig Dowley VP, Marketing
Santa Clara , CA (February 9, 2022)
Vimaan today announces StorTRACK, a transformative solution that addresses key inventory management challenges in the warehousing industry. Designed over the course of two years with input from leading 3PLs and Brands, StorTRACK utilizes proprietary and field proven computer vision technology to deliver an unprecedented level of inventory accuracy, visibility and tracking for fulfilment and distribution centers – all with greatly reduced labor requirements.
“More than a barcode or RFID reader, StorTRACK is an inventory management platform that delivers the warehouse-floor ‘truth’ to a customer’s WMS,” stated Philip Archambault, Chief Revenue Officer at Vimaan. “This truth includes proactive alerts for discrepancies against the WMS, the validation of quantities or expiration dates of SKUs and part numbers, archived and searchable images of inventory locations, flagging of quality deficiencies such as damaged inventory, and highlighting safety hazards such as protruding pallets or damaged racks.”
“StorTRACK is live and fully deployed at several leading 3PLs and Fortune 100 AI warehouses today, and these facilities have reduced inventory cycle counting and search related resources by up to 80%, delivering an ROI in months, and not years,” said Archambault. “Early StorTRACK adopters are conducting cycle counts as frequently as once a week and have achieved inventory accuracies of greater than 99.8%. Along with inventory tracking and inspections, StorTRACK scans high bay racks and reports on bin utilization, helping warehouses not only manage their inventory more effectively but also maximize the use of their entire storage capacity. Along with reducing labor content and improving picker productivity, StorTRACK aids in reducing inventory wastage, customer claims, chargebacks, and preventing loss of sales opportunities; saving warehouses money and increasing their overall output at the same time.”
StorTRACK supports both E-Commerce fulfilment centers with mezzanine level case or each storage, as well as large B2B distribution centers with high bay pallet and case storage. The solution leverages Vimaan’s powerful platform of sensors, cameras, sophisticated computer vision algorithms, a WMS integration layer, and an intuitive, easy to use app, ViewDeck, that is accessible by inventory management specialists at the facility.
All Vimaan solutions are designed to fit into existing workflows, with little to no infrastructure changes or training required for the warehouse workforce. Vimaan plans to launch additional products this year to complement StorTRACK and to provide similar highly automated and accurate validation of other workflows in the warehouse, including Receiving, Picking, Packing and Shipping.
Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Vimaan’s team comprises computer vision and hardware technologists and warehousing domain experts with a rich and successful history in technology startups. Vimaan’s primary mission is to deliver computer vision and machine learning solutions to solve long-standing inventory visibility, accuracy and quality challenges experienced in the supply chain.
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Media Contact: Craig Dowley VP, Marketing
January 26, 2022 – Santa Clara, CA
Vimaan, a computer vision company for warehouse inventory tracking and management, emerged from stealth to announce its leading-edge, field proven solutions to the warehousing and logistics industry along with $25M in Seed and Series A financing from top investors New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Wing VC and Neotribe Ventures. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Vimaan automates and digitizes inventory capture, tracking and management across the warehouse, including receiving, put-away and picking, storage and pack and ship.
“The process of collecting inventory data is a major bottleneck within warehouse management. While there have been some technological advancements in robotics and warehouse automation over the past decade, the Vimaan platform is the first of its kind to offer wall to wall coverage of warehouse inventory,” stated S. K. (“KG”) Ganapathi, Founder and CEO of Vimaan. “Warehouse managers constantly face competing objectives of keeping inventory tracking labor costs low while simultaneously keeping inventory accuracy high. Vimaan has worked hand in hand with our blue-chip customers to design solutions that strike at the heart of data tracking challenges in the warehouse. The Vimaan platform enables a warehouse manager to realize 100% inventory accuracy and visibility with minimal labor oversight. This in turn results not only in labor savings, but also in reduced inventory wastage, fewer claims and chargebacks, reduced reverse logistics costs and overall improvement in quality.”
The Vimaan platform comprises computer vision-based technologies—including cameras, a sensor suite and computer vision algorithms—to “see”, interpret, and digitally reconstruct inventory according to the warehouse’s requirements. The solution is simultaneously capable of barcode and RFID reading. The data is presented to the customer in an intuitive software application that directly interfaces with the customer’s WMS and provides rich, actionable insights. The entire Vimaan solution is designed to fit into existing workflows, with little to no infrastructure changes or training required for the warehouse workforce.
For the past 24 months, Vimaan has been working with leading 3PLs and brand owners to perfect its inventory tracking solutions. These customers, who are in full production with Vimaan solutions, have realized significant benefits in productivity and cost savings. Vimaan is now ready to share these solutions with the rest of the industry. Vimaan plans to launch a series of new products this year specifically designed to further support inventory tracking and inventory control in multiple areas of the warehouse. Over the coming weeks, Vimaan plans to announce details of its solutions, customer engagements and case studies of its deployments.
“Inefficiencies within the warehouse and logistics industries have spotlighted huge opportunities for technological advancement and investment,” said Greg Papadopoulos, Ph.D., Venture Partner at NEA. “We’ve been enthusiastically tracking the warehouse robotics and automation industry for a while and are thrilled to expand our portfolio in the space by partnering with Vimaan to apply revolutionary computer vision technology to transform inventory processes and empower warehouse managers across the industry.”
Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Vimaan’s team comprises computer vision and hardware technologists and warehousing domain experts with a rich and successful history in technology startups. Vimaan’s primary mission is to deliver computer vision and machine learning solutions to solve long-standing inventory visibility, accuracy and quality challenges experienced in the supply chain. For more information visit: vimaan.ai.
Media Contact: Craig Dowley VP, Marketing