KNAPP is building Walmart fulfillment centers around Evo Shuttle scale

Walmart From Twelve Steps To Five

KNAPP lists its Walmart advanced fulfillment-center case on May 2, 2025. The case record says KNAPP and Walmart have already built four advanced fulfillment centers, with a fifth soon to come. The sites range from 871,000 square feet to 2,200,000 square feet per center, so the public record points to a network program spanning several large buildings. Reviewed sources did not confirm when the KNAPP-Walmart relationship began, which leaves the expansion sequence visible but not fully dated.

The customer problem was e-commerce demand forcing Walmart to remove manual steps from fulfillment. KNAPP says the centers cut a 12-step process to five steps and doubled the number of orders processed per day. Employees had been walking up to 9 miles per day before the new process reduced that burden. KNAPP can support that kind of network program because its 49-location, 8,300-employee footprint combines software, shuttle hardware, workstation design, and resident engineering capacity in the same operating package.

Evo Shuttle And KiSoft Inside The Centers

The Walmart deployment uses Evo Shuttle 2D systems with space for nearly 2 million containers per warehouse. In this context, Evo Shuttle 2D is the high-density storage and retrieval layer behind the reduced walking path, while KiSoft keeps the fulfillment process connected across order flow and equipment status. KNAPP names KiSoft Analytics and KiSoft CMMS in the service model, tying performance visibility and maintenance management to the physical shuttle grid. The five-center rollout depends on uptime and repeatability along with the number of totes a single building can store.

The case record still does not publish orders per labor hour, shuttle uptime, site-by-site launch dates, resident-engineer response times, or the full timeline from first KNAPP-Walmart work to the fifth center. The clearest public metric would be orders shipped per labor hour by fulfillment center under KNAPP. That would show whether the Evo Shuttle and KiSoft combination keeps delivering gains as Walmart expands the model across larger buildings and more regional demand.

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