FedEx Corporation has made a strategic investment in AI robotics and autonomous e-commerce technology company Nimble to help scale its own e-commerce fulfillment offering across North America.
With more than 130 warehouse and fulfillment operations in North America and 475 million returns processed annually, FedEx Supply Chain helps brands consolidate functions, increase agility and accelerate click-to-door speed to maximize value throughout their supply chain, according to the company.
“Our strategic alliance and financial investment with Nimble expands our footprint in the e-commerce space, helping to further scale our FedEx Fulfillment offering across North America,” said Scott Temple, president, FedEx Supply Chain. “Nimble’s cutting-edge AI robotics and autonomous fulfillment systems will help FedEx streamline operations and unlock new opportunities for our customers.”
Simon Kalouche, founder and CEO of Nimble, added, “We’re thrilled to be engaging in this multifaceted alliance with a logistics industry leader like FedEx to pioneer and scale autonomous fulfillment. This collaboration will help enable FedEx to leverage Nimble’s fast and cost-effective fulfillment centers, powered by our next-generation intelligent general purpose warehouse robots and AI technology.”