About the speaker
René Kahr is Business Development Manager at Körber Supply Chain, specializing in researching and developing automated palletizing solutions for distribution centers across the FMCG, food, beverage, and 3PL sectors. With deep expertise in warehouse automation design and implementation, René works closely with customers to identify where manual bottlenecks are hiding and how to remove them cost-effectively.
The hidden barrier to mixed palletizing automation – and how to remove it
Mixed palletizing is still manual in most distribution centers, not because automation does not exist, but because the traditional path to automating it has been too complex and costly. In this session, Körber Supply Chain’s Business Development Manager René Kahr breaks down the real barriers and challenges the assumption that mixed palletizing automation is out of reach. He will walk through why the traditional approach creates the cost barrier, how AI is solving the stacking intelligence problem, and what a direct pallet-to-mixed pallet flow actually looks like in practice for medium-throughput distribution centers.