GE Appliances turns to AI and robotics to improve warehouse efficiency - here's how it achieved 99.9% inventory accuracy

When you're moving millions of boxes through warehouses every year, losing track of even a single part can trigger expensive delays. GE Appliances—the inventor of the self-cleaning oven and whose products are found in one in four American households—has found a solution that's delivering huge efficiencies through data analytics and warehouse-based robots.

The adoption of these technologies is helping GE Appliances avoid costly inventory issues that can ripple through its just-in-time manufacturing operations, explains the company's Senior Director of Central Materials, Harry Chase:

It's critical that we keep inventory accuracy as high as we can possibly keep it; if we go to a location and a part is not there, we can't waste time on somebody driving around looking for it.

At the level we operate at, because we're moving millions of boxes through warehouses every year, we don't even want ...