Orchestrating fulfillment with COFE® and intelligent automation

GREENCREST on May 20, 2025

Orchestrating the Future of Fulfillment with Intelligent Automation

In today’s rapidly evolving retail landscape, fulfillment is about moving smarter, faster and more in sync to meet consumer demand. At VARGO®,.  we believe fulfillment should operate like a perfectly choreographed symphony, with every process, from receiving to shipping, working together seamlessly in real time. That’s why we’ve pioneered an approach that blends intelligent automation with real-time execution systems and allows customers to receive their orders quicker, and every dollar of capital investment into operations go much further.

 

COFE® is the Conductor When Automation Alone Isn’t Enough

Retailers turn to automation to accelerate shipping, reduce labor costs and increase throughput. However, traditional fulfillment operations often operate in waves — batching orders, pausing, and restarting — leading to bottlenecks, inefficiencies and delays. COFE®, our proven warehouse execution system (WES), selects the most optimal work to be performed and synchronizes all the work in process, to maintain a seamless and continuous flow throughout a fulfillment operation. The result? Faster order cycle times, more building throughput, lower processing costs and less CapEx equipment required.

 

We Empower Intelligent Automation and Technology to Work in Perfect Harmony

We believe that fulfillment isn’t just powered by automation — it’s orchestrated by intelligence. Many companies implement automation in isolated silos not realizing that without a unifying layer of intelligence, these systems often fall out of sync which leads to delays, inefficiencies and unsatisfied customers. At VARGO®, we start with the end in mind, strategizing how people, automation and technology will work together to achieve the highest levels of efficiency. We help our clients evaluate the benefits and ROI of deploying automation technologies such as AMRs, conveyance, automated sorting systems,  AS/RS and more. We help determine the appropriate level and selection of automation based on the desired operation so that perfect fulfillment center harmony can be achieved.

 

Fulfillment That Receives a Standing Ovation From Our Customers

Leading brands in ecommerce, apparel and health & beauty are quick to applaud COFE®’s proven results! These include:

  • A leading beauty retailer that increased its peak daily shipment capacity from 550,000 to 800,000 units—a 45% improvement, and with capacity for additional growth.
  • The same company saw its peak daily shipments increase from 150,000 to 300,000 units—a 100% increase.
  • An up-and-coming apparel maker that boosted daily peak throughput by more than a 200% improvement from 90,000 to 275,000 units per day.

Bravo!

Ready to Orchestrate Automation Excellence at Your Fulfillment Center?

Contact us today and let’s discuss how COFE® can maximize your automation investments, minimize inefficiencies and create perfect harmony at your fulfillment center.

VARGO® Announces Strategic Partnership with Sitma

GREENCREST on May 14, 2025

DUBLIN, Ohio (May 14, 2025) — VARGO®, a leading provider of automated material handling systems integration, warehouse execution software and equipment solutions for major fulfillment and distribution centers, announces a new partnership with Sitma. These two pioneers and leaders in warehouse execution software and mailer automation technology are partnering for end-of-line packaging automation that improves the overall facility throughput, reduces direct labor in a reduced building footprint, and promotes sustainability via right-to-size paper-based mailer packages for customers.

This partnership is combining VARGO®’s capabilities through its’ COFE® Put-Wall Speedpack® stations with Sitma’s high speed automated packaging capabilities. In real-time COFE® Put-Wall Speedpack® stations facilitate order consolidation dynamically for single and multiple orders. Those orders are then completed via an automated workflow delivered into Sitma’s Fast Pack Plus fully automated mailer automation system. This creates a continued and sustainable throughput process for all orders, end-to-end, from order creation and release to shipping.

“As fully automated and on-demand packaging becomes more essential for our customers, our partnership with Sitma will help us to continue to support them in addressing ever-changing business challenges,” said Robert Nilsson, Chief Commercial Officer at VARGO®. “Delivering enhanced efficiency, boosting productivity and optimizing labor is core to both VARGO® and Sitma and we are thrilled about the value our collaboration will bring to new and existing customers.”

“VARGO® is a natural choice for a Sitma partnership,” said Francis McMahon, President of Sitma Americas. “Sitma’s mailer automation systems for fast and efficient packaging across a broad range of SKUs with VARGO®’s expertise in waveless and e-commerce order fulfillment, bring customers an integrated and synergistic solution built for the future.”