AutoStore Helps Order Achievement of 33 Million Items of Stock Throughout Extra Than 485,000 SKUs

Alliance Launches New Video Showcasing the AutoStore System in Motion at its Kentucky Achievement Middle

SUNRISE, Fla., January 05, 2023–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Alliance Leisure Holding Company (“Alliance Leisure”), a distributor and wholesaler of the world’s largest in inventory number of music, motion pictures, video video games, electronics, arcades, and collectibles, introduced as we speak it has partnered with AutoStore™ and Swisslog to design and set up a cube-based warehouse automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS) that’s now reside and operational at its 873,000 sq. foot Kentucky warehouse.

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AutoStore’s ASRS harnesses the ability of warehouse robots for twenty-four/7 order achievement inside a dense cubic format that will increase storage capability and unlocks storage floorspace. The AutoStore’s ASRS makes use of robots to journey over a floor grid and choose or dig up totes containing the product wanted for orders and ship these bins to a choosing station, permitting every operator to select into and as much as 4 totally different orders on the identical time, eradicating strolling from the choose course of. Based mostly in Norway, AutoStore has put in over 1,000 of its methods globally with a number of the world’s largest manufacturers. Swisslog, a number one international supplier of automated intralogistics applied sciences, partnered with Alliance for the design and set up of the Firm’s new ASRS.

The brand new video showcases the AutoStore ASRS in motion at Alliance Leisure’s Shepherdsville, Kentucky warehouse achievement heart, which has a footprint of 873,000 sq. toes, together with 3 choosing mezzanines including a further 220,000 sq. toes to the space that must be coated each day for selecting, sorting, packing, and transport. The warehouse has 33 million items of stock throughout greater than 485,000 distinctive in inventory SKUs.

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The video is obtainable on the Alliance Leisure web site right here.

Alliance Leisure’s ASRS configuration contains AutoStore’s newest era B1™ robots mixed with over 52,000 storage bins, (every bin is configurable and might maintain as much as 8 distinctive SKUs with a most weight of 66 lbs), masking 22,200 sq. toes of the Firm’s 873,000 sq. foot warehouse, enabling a choose price of two,000 strains per hour throughout 7 choosing ports and a putaway throughput of 200 bins per hour. For added future capability, the ASRS has been designed to have the ability to add 2 extra pick-ports in addition to broaden the variety of Putaway ports from 4 to eight with out modifying the bodily body or stopping manufacturing.

Beneath the phrases of the contract, Alliance Leisure executed a four-year lease for the ASRS. The AutoStore is calculated to have a 3.5 yr ROI, with the bulk coming from labor financial savings, decrease coaching prices, lowered dealing with/sortation and creating capability on sortation for different product strains and in the end dashing up the supply to buyer.

“With our unbelievable progress in Vinyl shipments at our Kentucky warehouse from 8.1 million items in 2019 to 16.3 million in 2021, we would have liked a system that might scale back the space walked to select product, to retailer in a extra compact kind, and scale back the quantity of labor wanted to deal with the product,” mentioned Warwick Goldby, SVP of Operations of Alliance Leisure. “We now have over 3 million items and 40,000 Vinyl Document titles in stock, together with each Alliance stock and AMPED distributed titles. Together with the expansion of shipments, for the reason that pandemic we acknowledged the necessity to shift towards bigger scale automation as warehouses have needed to adapt to the problem of staffing and executing the workload with restricted sources in ever tightening supply time frames.

“The AutoStore is product agnostic, and in our present section we’re first specializing in Vinyl data and enhancing our processes. Nevertheless, the AutoStore could be configured for any of the merchandise we feature within the warehouse at the moment and sooner or later that will match the bin. This permits us to develop into different product strains and use the identical storage configuration. The placement and design of the AutoStore was with the forethought of having the ability to broaden its capability sooner or later to permit for extra bins if wanted with minimal impression on each day operations. The AutoStore permits Alliance to reimagine how product flows in our warehouse, change current processes, and might create capability for selecting and sorting by doing issues otherwise. We’re happy with the launch of the system and its impression on effectivity, value, and our capability for future progress,” concluded Goldby.

About AutoStore

AutoStore™, based in 1996, is a warehouse robotic know-how firm that invented and continues to pioneer dice storage automation, the densest order-fulfillment answer in existence. Our focus is to marry software program and {hardware} with human talents to create the way forward for warehousing. AutoStore is international, with over 1,000+ methods in 46 international locations in a variety of industries. All gross sales are distributed, designed, put in, and serviced by a community of certified system integrators known as “companions.” The headquarter is in Nedre Vats, Norway, with workplaces in Oslo (Norway), the U.S., U.Ok., Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Austria, South Korea, Japan, and Singapore.

The AutoStore System consists of an Aluminum Grid, Robots, Bins, Ports, and a Controller. The stacked Bins are organized in a Grid. Robots trip on rails alongside the highest of the Grid, retrieving Bins as wanted. The Bins are then delivered to a Port, the place warehouse operators are stationed to select up or fill in merchandise, tag, pack and ship them out. A Controller acts because the mind behind the entire operation. For extra data go to www.autostoresystem.com.

About Swisslog

Swisslog designs, develops, and delivers best-in-class automation options. Headquartered in Buchs/Aarau, Switzerland, Swisslog is organized into two enterprise items, Healthcare and Logistics Automation, that design, develop, and ship best-in-class automation options for forward-thinking well being methods, provide chain operations, and manufacturing amenities. Prospects profit from built-in methods and companies from a single supply – from consulting to design, implementation, and lifelong buyer assist. Swisslog is a member of the KUKA Group, a number one international provider of clever automation options. For extra data go to www.swisslog.com.

About Alliance Leisure

Alliance Leisure is a premier distributor of music, motion pictures, and shopper electronics. We provide over 485,000 distinctive in inventory SKUs, together with over 57,300 unique compact discs, vinyl LP data, DVDs, Blu-rays, and video video games. Complementing our huge media catalog, we additionally inventory a full array of associated equipment, toys and collectibles. With greater than thirty-five years of distribution expertise, Alliance Leisure serves prospects of each measurement, offering a sturdy suite of companies to resellers and retailers worldwide. Our environment friendly processing and important vendor instruments noticeably scale back the prices related to administrating a number of vendor relationships, whereas serving to omni-channel retailers broaden their product choice and achievement objectives. For extra data go to www.aent.com.

On June 23, 2022, Alliance Leisure introduced that it’ll turn out to be publicly listed by way of a merger transaction with Adara Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: ADRA, ADRA.U, ADRA.WS) (“Adara”), a publicly traded particular objective acquisition firm. The transaction is predicted to shut within the fourth quarter of 2022, at which level the mixed firm’s widespread inventory is predicted to commerce on the NYSE American below the ticker image “AENT”.

About Adara Acquisition Corp.

Adara raised $115 million in February 2021 and its securities are listed on the NYSE American below the ticker symbols “NYSE: ADRA, ADRA.U, ADRA.WS”. Adara is a clean examine firm organized for the aim of effecting a merger, share trade, asset acquisition, inventory buy, recapitalization, reorganization, or different comparable enterprise mixture with a number of companies or entities. Adara is led by its CEO, Thomas Finke (former Chairman and CEO of Barings LLC) and its director, W. Tom Donaldson (founding father of Blystone & Donaldson). Along with Messrs. Finke and Donaldson, Adara’s Board of Administrators additionally embody Frank Quintero, Dylan Glenn and Beatriz Acevedo-Greiff.

To be taught extra, please go to: www.adaraspac.com

Ahead Wanting Statements

Sure statements included on this press launch that aren’t historic information are forward-looking statements for functions of the secure harbor provisions below the US Personal Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Ahead-looking statements typically are accompanied by phrases resembling “imagine,” “might,” “will,” “estimate,” “proceed,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “anticipate,” “ought to,” “would,” “plan,” “predict,” “potential,” “appear,” “search,” “future,” “outlook,” and comparable expressions that predict or point out future occasions or traits or that aren’t statements of historic issues. These forward-looking statements embody, however usually are not restricted to, statements concerning estimates and forecasts of monetary and efficiency metrics, projections of market alternative, expectations and timing associated to Alliance Leisure’s enterprise, buyer progress and different enterprise milestones, potential advantages of the proposed enterprise mixture (the “Proposed Transactions”), and expectations associated to the timing of the Proposed Transactions.

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These forward-looking statements are topic to a lot of dangers and uncertainties, together with modifications in home and international enterprise, market, monetary, political, and authorized situations; the lack of the events to efficiently or well timed consummate the Proposed Transactions, together with the chance that any regulatory approvals usually are not obtained, are delayed or are topic to unanticipated situations that might adversely have an effect on the mixed firm or the anticipated advantages of the Proposed Transactions or that the approval of the stockholders of Adara or Alliance Leisure isn’t obtained; failure to comprehend the anticipated advantages of the Proposed Transactions; dangers referring to the uncertainty of the projected monetary data with respect to Alliance Leisure; dangers associated to the music, video, gaming, and leisure trade, together with modifications in leisure supply codecs; international financial situations; the consequences of competitors on Alliance Leisure’s future enterprise; dangers associated to fulfilment community; dangers associated to enlargement and the pressure on Alliance Leisure’s administration, operational, monetary, and different sources; dangers associated to working outcomes and progress price; the enterprise may very well be harmed the quantity of redemption requests made by Adara’s public stockholders; and people components mentioned in Adara’s Annual Report on Type 10-Ok for the fiscal yr ended December 31, 2021 below the heading “Threat Elements,” and the Present Report on Type 8-Ok filed on June 23, 2022 and different paperwork of Adara filed, or to be filed, with the SEC.

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