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Fashion never stands still—and neither do your customers. Rapid trends, seasonal shifts and the demand for personalized experiences make it critical to keep your supply chain agile and responsive. From managing diverse SKUs to handling returns and ensuring fast delivery, every step needs to work flawlessly to keep shoppers engaged and loyal.

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Automated Storage & Retrieval Systems (AS/RS)

Conveying, Sorting & Handling

Workstations

Robotics & AI

All-in-One Software

Fashion and footwear companies face constant pressure to fulfill orders faster while managing high SKU counts and limited space. Our cutting-edge ASRS solutions address these exact challenges. Automated systems utilize shuttles, bots and stacker cranes to deliver dense storage and high-performance picking. This allows for faster, more accurate fulfillment and frees up valuable floor space for other operations.

For apparel and footwear companies, agility is key to managing inventory and fulfilling customer orders. Our intelligent conveying and sorting solutions provide the flexibility you need. From flat-packed garments to footwear, our systems adapt effortlessly to diverse product types. Featuring pocket sorters and modular conveyor systems, we enable precise sequencing and efficient order consolidation—ensuring fast, accurate deliveries and optimized inventory flow for maximum profitability.

Our Pick-it-Easy Workstations are a true game-changer for fashion and footwear logistics. These ergonomic workstations integrate directly with automation systems, using intuitive technology to guide operators through picking, inventory and returns. By reducing physical strain and ensuring every item is at the operator’s fingertips, improving picking accuracy and increasing throughput—essential for handling high volumes of apparel and footwear.

Our solutions for bin picking, full-case picking, autonomous transport and high-performance sorting bring intelligent automation to retail logistics. Powered by AI and machine learning, these systems reduce manual strain and adapt to growing volumes and diverse products. From push tray and crossbelt sorters to robotic picking, we deliver consistent speed and precision—while your team focuses on insights.

By integrating AI and networked technology, our solutions go beyond automation to enable continuous learning and smarter decision-making. Robots and sorters become economical, high-performance assistants that enhance quality and profitability throughout the supply chain. Rather than replacing people, they complement them—handling repetitive tasks with tireless accuracy.

If your fashion and footwear supply chain is being held back by fragmented systems, our KiSoft All-in-One Software will deliver the control and clarity you need. Acting as the central nervous system of the logistics processes, it seamlessly manages everything from inbound stock to outbound fulfillment and post-sale analysis. Designed for the pace and complexity of the fashion industry, it ensures every process is connected, efficient and scalable.

Hear From Our Customers

Luxottica produces brands such as Ray‑Ban and Oakley. Read how they use KNAPP's software to process 33,000 packing units/day.

Next plc. is a leading British retailer of fashion and furniture. Read how they use AutoPocket to save 35% in weekly personnel hours.

DSV is the fastest growing 3PL provider in Northern Europe. Read how they transformed a DC for a sporting goods manufacturer.

DECATHLON
Leading Sports Retailer in Germany

To supply sport enthusiasts with articles as fast as possible, the intelligent pocket sorter system solution was put in the game.

Pack Stations

Pockets

SKUs

Advantages for Fashion Logistics

Peak Demand Solutions

Omnichannel

Same- or Next-day Delivery

Returns Management

Store-friendly Delivery

Accuracy

Fashion waits for no one. Whether it’s holiday chaos, a flash sale or the viral moment for a new collection, your fulfillment needs to keep pace with demand. Our scalable fashion logistics solutions are built to handle the biggest spikes in your business. Our systems seamlessly scale from day-to-day operations to extreme seasonal loads, so you can launch that must-have drop and deliver on time, every time.

Our automated omnichannel solutions connect your retail stores, online platform and wholesale channels into a single, unified system. This gives you the flexibility to manage inventory intelligently and process orders from any source with speed and precision. As trends and demand shift, your operations can adapt instantly, ensuring you never miss a sale.

In the world of online fashion, fast delivery is the new standard. Our automated solutions optimize your e-commerce fulfillment with lightning-fast lead times and intelligent order prioritization, so your customers can get their new look delivered today or tomorrow. From checkout to their doorstep, we provide the full transparency you need to keep your promises and build customer trust.

Warehouse worker processing a returned item in a KNAPP returns management environment, illustrating efficient reverse logistics, automated sorting, and streamlined inventory reintegration for high‑volume distribution operations.

In fashion, speed is everything—even for returns. Your bottom line shouldn’t be held hostage by off-season merchandise sitting in a warehouse. Our automated returns management system gets returned items processed, inspected and back into sellable inventory faster. Our Pocket Sorters add efficiency by quickly sorting and consolidating returned items, making it easier to reintegrate products into the fulfillment flow. This not only protects cash flow but turns a costly logistics problem into a seamless experience that keeps brand loyalists coming back.

Move from the backroom to the sales floor faster. For fashion and footwear, every minute spent organizing stock is a minute lost with a customer. With our shop-friendly delivery solutions, items arrive at your store pre-sorted by department and size, eliminating hours of manual work. This ensures your latest styles are on the shelf, not in the back, driving higher sales and giving your team more time to create a premium in-store experience.

Flawless fulfillment is your best accessory. In fashion and footwear, a wrong size or color means a disappointed customer, and a guaranteed return. Our advanced automation ensures every order—from a single pair of shoes to a complete outfit—is picked, packed and shipped with absolute precision. This meticulous attention to detail minimizes errors, reduces costs and delivers the seamless, perfect-fit experience your customers expect.

Awarded as Best Product 2025!

KNAPP’s newest intelligent storage robot, AeroBot, was named the year’s “Best Product of 2025”  at LogiMAT. With its innovative functions and outstanding quality, KNAPP has once again set  the gold standard in warehouse logistics.

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Insights

Image showing pockets on a pocket sorter system used in high‑throughput logistics operations, illustrating how pocket-based sorting enables resource‑efficient processing, rapid sequencing, and high performance in environments with fluctuating order volumes.

What It Takes To Be Future-Ready

A new approach is needed Most warehouse technology today is already holding you back. Not because it’s broken. But because it was built for a…

Fashion, Retail, Wholesale

May 29, 2026July 8, 2026

Automated warehouse system demonstrating zero‑touch and low‑touch logistics, showcasing robotics, smart software, and streamlined material flow designed to reduce manual handling and increase operational efficiency.

Zeroing in on Zero-Touch

THE CHALLENGE Consistently meeting customer demand while maximizing productivity THE SOLUTION Dynamic low-touch logistics Overcoming the limitations of time and space. A global online fashion…

Customer Service, Fashion, Retail, Wholesale

January 1, 2026July 4, 2026

KNAPP pocket sorter system transporting hanging and flat goods in dynamic pockets, enabling high‑throughput sequencing, smooth order consolidation, and efficient omni‑channel fulfillment within automated warehouse operations.

Why not Consider a Pocket Sorter?

SELECTION CRITERIA The world of logistics is at a technology tipping point. It’s increasingly clear that NOT automating core logistics processes will end up costing…

Fashion, Retail, Wholesale

January 30, 2025July 4, 2026