Videos
Digital Commerce 360 e-Commerce Chat featuring Brian Pulfer: How the COVID-19 Crisis Changed Fulfillment Permanently
Brian Pulfer joins other executives to discuss the permanent changes to e-commerce fulfillment created by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Supply Chain Brain interview with Art Eldred: Balancing the Need for Automation and People in E-Commerce
Art Eldred discusses the challenges involved in striking the balance between the need for both robots and human labor in e-commerce fulfillment centers.
Supply Chain Brain interview with Shawn Cavasos: Mapping a Route to the Warehouse of the Future
Shawn Cavasos talks about how a systems integrator can help companies evaluate which of the latest robotics technologies are needed for a successful warehouse operation.
Supply Chain Brain Interview with Rebecca Call – A.I. Comes of Age in the Warehouse
Rebecca Call, solution delivery manager at VARGO® talks with Supply Chain Brain about the many ways that Artificial Intelligence is being used to create agile and efficient fulfillment center operations.
Supply Chain Brain Interview with Art Eldred – WMS-WCS-WES: the Differences
As fulfillment centers continue to evolve, managers must be aware that warehouse execution systems can truly simply operations because they are about much more than just single records of inventory or order status, says Art Eldred, Client Executive, Systems Engineering.
Supply Chain Brain Interview with Art Eldred – The Emerging Role of the Warehouse Execution System (WES)
Supply Chain Brain discusses the emerging role of the warehouse execution system in omnichannel fulfillment with VARGO® Client Executive Art Eldred.
Low CAPEX E-Commerce Distribution Driven by COFE®
Demand driven order fulfillment for e-commerce and low item-count order operations. Work is pulled to the available resources consisting of people, stations and machines. Higher efficiency and productivities are achieved by gathering (picking) product to be later matched to a large set of order.
COFE® Intro: High Volume Apparel E-Commerce Solution
E-Commerce Solutions for a fast fashion apparel company based on the West Coast. System is capable of processing more than 300,000 items a day. VARGO®'s unique COFE® Warehouse Execution System software solution is at the heart of the entire order fulfillment engine. COFE® was the first and remains the most advanced WES of its kind; it’s a demand-based system that systemically pull orders through the process in a waveless mode.
COFE® E-Commerce Distribution – Fast Fashion System Slideshow
Brief slide show of VARGO®'s demand-based, e-commerce distribution system for a fast fashion retailer. System pulls order in a waveless continuous operation.
My E-Commerce Fulfillment Process is Broken – Why?
VARGO® explains the e-commerce fulfillment process in this ProMat seminar.
E-Commerce Order Fulfillment 101
This guide teaches you how to achieve lean, operational effectiveness in e-commerce order fulfillment.
COFE® – Continuous Demand Driven Distribution Solutions
VARGO® specializes in continuous demand driven order fulfillment processes and material handling integration. Our solutions scale from 2,000 order a day and higher. The heart of the system is powered by our own dynamic and adaptive Warehouse Execution System software solution called COFE®.
VARGO®: A Distribution Center Integrator for E-Commerce and Retail
See turnkey e-commerce distribution solutions by VARGO®. VARGO® is the only company offering a waveless, demand-driven warehouse controls system that seamlessly manages people, devices and machines. Waveless, demand-based systems have the shortest order cycle times, function in decoupled work cells, quickly ramp up an effective new hire, and have very little work-in-progress buffers, requiring very little mechanization/automation to process.
COFE®: Continuous Order Fulfillment Engine Warehouse Execution System
COFE® is a powerful Warehouse Execution System offered exclusively by VARGO®. It is a full-featured order fulfillment engine that seamlessly manages orders, processes, available resources, machines and people.
VARGO® System Layout, Simulation and 3-D Modeling Sample
Watch a computer-animated, 3-D sample of a distribution system layout and simulation.
Waveless Processing Simulation – E-Commerce/Business to Business
Implementation of waveless order fulfillment and processing in a distribution center as part of a Warehouse Execution System eliminates non-essential relationships in fulfilling orders, creating continuous flow and eliminating low-productivity wave transitions.
Order Mining for Pulling Orders
VARGO® Systems Engineer Dan Perry explains order mining for pulling orders in this video podcast.
WCS Lean Waveless Sorting
VARGO® Systems Engineer Dan Perry explains warehouse control systems and lean, waveless sorting in this video podcast.
E-Commerce Speedback
VARGO® Systems Engineer Dan Perry discusses e-commerce speedback in this video podcast.
Material Handling – Installation Phase of Large E-Commerce Site
Compilation of VARGO®’s installation team photos from a large e-commerce site. VARGO® designs, installs, commissions and supports full turnkey distribution solutions for the e-commerce and retail client. At the core of our system is VARGO®'s COFE® WES, which improves warehouse workflows through its pull-based technology that results in a lower cost of capital and efficient use of personnel when peak periods occur.
VARGO®’s E-Commerce WCS Dashboard
Take a look at VARGO®’s e-commerce warehouse control system dashboard tools.
VARGO®’s Warehouse Control System (WCS) Queries
This short video describes VARGO®’s warehouse control system (WCS) query functionality.
VARGO® Low Cost E-Commerce Concept for Apparel
Watch the VARGO®-engineered solution applicable to most apparel ecommerce providers. The functional system goes live summer 2012. ROI is targeted at 1.8 yrs.
VARGO® E-Commerce Order Fulfillment Assembly/Matching Station
VARGO®®'s waveless order fulfillment solution enables pull-based order picking where items and/or product is picked in active pick areas and transported to a matching station where multi-line orders are assembled to an order. Order picking, transporting and order assembly is managed by VARGO®®'s COFE®.
VARGO® for E-Commerce Distribution – American Eagle Case Study
Overview of the VARGO® Continuous Flow (waveless) Order Fulfillment solution at American Eagle Outfitters.