Automated order picking / order fulfillment systems
Order picking, also known as order fulfillment is the process of removing products from storage in order to meet a specific customer demand. Processing customer orders quickly and accurately has a direct impact on customer satisfaction and determines the success of your business. Conventional order picking has a high labour content and takes up a large share of overall warehouse costs.Automated order picking systems can:
- increase productivity up to 1.000 lines / manhour
- improve picking accuracy up to 99,99%
- enable you to deliver higher customer service levels
- optimize space utilization up to 40% compared to conventional warehouses
Selecting the best order picking system for your business depends on the characteristics of your operation and products. Volume, item velocity and value added services are just a few of the factors that will affect your decision. Whether you are handling individual items, full cases, or pallets also impacts that decision.
- Item picking: Also known as piece picking or broken/split case picking. Suitable when you ship individual items from your facility, which have limited shipping volume. See PLUS Retail, Plieger, Samsung, Amazon, and Casaventa.
- Case picking: Applied for full cartons/totes with a relatively large shipping unit volume. See Euroshoe, Corporate Express and Micarna.
- Pallet picking: Automated pallet handling systems can offer significant benefits, such as a constant capacity and careful product handling, enabling fast, efficient pallet handling processes. See Argos, Colombini and Tchibo.
- Integrated picking systems: Contain pallets, cases as well as items. Automated consolidation of the different flows is required. See Game Stores, Arrow Electronics, Entertainment UK, TVH Forklift Parts and NIKE.
Our order picking systems are enabled by VISION, a single integrated Warehouse Management System (WMS) for the effective handling of the entire warehouse process. We have broad experience designing and implementing order picking systems.
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