Case Study: Acumen Brands Uses Robots to 
Cut Warehouse Costs

“We had the worst hunt-and-peck system you could imagine,” says John James, Acumen Brands’ founder and CEO. “We were either going to have to take a mild step up or go all the way to the Ferrari. We chose to go all the way.”

It did so in rapid fashion. Acumen Brands went from designing the system in February to it being fully operational in late May, an unheard of three-and-a-half month turnaround. Even more remarkable, Acumen Brands did all of this with only three people devoted to the project (compared to the average 10- to 12-person teams that most retailers have).