Veloq

Every same-day grocery order depends on five variables: demand, staffing, storage, routing, and courier capacity. Get one wrong, and the order is late, or the operation loses money delivering it on time. On August 20, 10:00 a.m. EST, RETHINK Retail will be hosting Dalibor Pátek, VP of Product at Rohlik Group, for a webinar on how Veloq gets all five right in gurkerl.at’s Vienna operation, from inbound to the customer's door. Dalibor, along with experts from his team, will provide a step-by-step overview of orchestrated decisions across fulfillment and delivery, bringing together operational data, workflows, and real-time execution, including: → How demand forecasting sets fulfillment center and last-mile shift patterns together. Slot availability up 90%, delays under 5%. → How staffing pulls from a skill matrix and real performance data. → How Veloq decides where each item is stored and how it moves: AutoStore, robotic picking, or automated expedition. → How routing runs on live inputs down to individual map segments, fed by a courier feedback loop. → How to plan last-mile capacity in 15-minute blocks across a D-50-to-D-0 window. Attendees get a concrete picture of how forecasting, staffing, storage, routing, and courier planning function as one system, along with a reference point for where to start if their own operation is still solving these problems one at a time. Register below. https://lnkd.in/gsKZUh59 #eGrocery #RetailOperations #SupplyChain

Lorenz Diederichs, COO of knuspr.de and gurkerl.at - Dein Besser-Als-Super-Markt talks about what changed once Veloq went in: Full, end-to-end visibility, from the order arriving from a vendor to the moment it's picked for a customer. Veloq's AI decides which AutoStore compartment stock goes into at inbound based on how it'll need to move at outbound, then decides which bin to pick from for every customer order. The same system makes both decisions across all 15,000+ SKUs. That's how Gurkerl.at achieves more than 98% availability, 95% perfect orders, and picking accuracy above 99%, all at the same time. What would full inbound-to-outbound visibility be worth to your operation?

Whether in Europe or the US, all the growth happening in online grocery right now is happening in one place: same-day. But can grocers deliver the full assortment customers expect on the same day and still turn a profit? Based on the profitability Rohlik Group has achieved with Veloq, the answer is clearly “Yes!” So, what does it cost an operator to keep running without a platform like Veloq? Petr Lizner, Director of Strategy & Growth at Veloq, answers the question on the floor of our Vienna FC, run by gurkerl.at - Dein Besser-Als-Super-Markt .

A conventional grocery warehouse moves pallets between distribution centers and stores. Powered by Veloq, gurkerl.at's Vienna fulfillment center ships individual orders straight to the customer in a 15-minute delivery slot 3 after the order is placed. That's the distinction Lorenz Diederichs, COO of knuspr.de and gurkerl.at to when asked what this facility does that a standard FC can't. → 20 minutes of throughput per order → 15,000+ SKUs. How many SKUs is your same-day operation handling today?

We are expanding our team at Veloq! 🚀 We have successfully raised €30M to enhance our warehouse automation platform across Europe and the United States, and we are looking for talented individuals to join us in this journey. Currently, we have four open positions: EU Based Roles: - Sales Director Europe — https://lnkd.in/dAyAMiAt - Head of Strategic Partnerships — https://lnkd.in/dA7kQj2Y - Senior Solutions Consultant — https://lnkd.in/dV7wJpdb US Based Roles - Sales Director US — https://lnkd.in/dQUkfsnU For EU/US-based roles, we are looking for the right talent no matter the city. If you are passionate about shaping the future of grocery fulfillment, we would love to hear from you.

Building a grocery fulfillment center from scratch usually means assembling five separate pieces: a consulting firm to design it, a WMS, automation, a router, and last-mile software. None of them built for same-day. None of them built for grocery. Petr Lizner Director of Strategy & Growth at Veloq, answers the question: Why use Veloq vs. another partner or building your own?

Storing groceries across ambient, chilled, and frozen zones sounds complex: which item goes in which zone, and making sure it never goes into the wrong one. AutoStore™'s VP of Central Europe, Philipp Striebel, talks about how Veloq and AutoStore handle that complexity at Gurkerl.at by running ambient and chilled grids side by side, with 80% of the assortment automated. If you're an online grocer, how do you handle storing goods across temperature zones?

Veloq's product team built the platform around one non-negotiable: Never compromise the customer proposition to reach profitability faster. Multiple bag types. A full bakery. A pharmacy. These are all categories that are harder to run profitably at the unit-economic level than a standard grocery assortment. But Rohlik Group, powered by Veloq, keeps them because customers want them, and delivers them profitability across five markets. Offer what customers love, then engineer the system to stay profitable around it. What's one thing your operation would need to cut to hit its numbers that customers would miss?

The Consumer Goods Forum recently brought a room of grocery CEOs through gurkerl.at - Dein Besser-Als-Super-Markt. The one thing our Director of Strategy & Growth, Petr Lizner, wants every exec in that room to take home is the question: What would your growth look like if you offered Rohlik Group’s proposition in your own market? → Warm bread delivered in 60 minutes. → A 95% perfect order rate. → 15-minute delivery windows. All of it profitable. What would that look like for your business?

Recently, The Consumer Goods Forum brought a room full of grocery execs through gurkerl.at's fulfillment center in Vienna, to see how Veloq profitably delivers the full assortment for Rohlik Group. Tour stops included: → Inbound: Veloq intelligence determines where every SKU goes at 98% stock availability. → The AutoStore™ grid: With 80% of the assortment automated across two grids (ambient + chilled) at 99% uptime. → Sereact's robotic arms: Picking 20/24 hours a day, matching human accuracy, with up to a 50% overall reduction in picking labor → AutoStore Picking: Where expert pickers reach >500 UPH guided step by step by Veloq software. → The Baker: With 300+ fresh bakery SKUs and some bread delivered still warm. → AutoStore Expedition: The first of its kind in grocery, consolidating three temperature zones into one trolley for the driver. Asked what conversation she hopes grocers go home and have with their own teams, Rita Kerbaj, Veloq’s Chief Strategy Officer, said: "The conversation that I'd like everybody to leave with is that same-day is happening already. It's the future in how you win your customer long term online, and it's that you can actually do that profitably.” If you’re a grocer, ask yourself and your team: How do we win the customer online? How do we make that profitable for your business? How do we build a proposition that puts you ahead of your competitors?