Skip to main content

The Warehouse Zone Picking Best Practice that You Must Consider to Improve Picking Efficiency | LoadProof

 


This next best practice is about the warehouse zone picking process. The way this works is if your picking involves going to multiple areas, multiple isles of bin locations, and you are picking from different bin locations. This process is about eliminating all the unnecessary walking, and of course we all know the more you pick, the more you can ship, the more you ship, the more you invoice, the more you can get paid. This results in more revenue for the company, more revenue for the distribution center and everyone is happy. If you can eliminate the time that is spent by people on walking and instead have them pick all the time then that becomes efficient. If you have one long isle or multiple isles you could divide those isles into multiple zones. So what would happen is and typically this works well with a MHE (material handling equipment) wherein the box comes to the zone and the person stays in the zone all the time. 

The zone could be a confined area where they are not walking so much and staying in that zone and staying closer to the bin location. When a carton arrives into their zone, they pick their product and put it in the carton and scan the carton. Then they know the products that needs to be put in the carton and they go to the bin location. In the bin location they had to take that product and put it in the carton and scan the carton again. It tells that they fulfilled their picks that they need to perform in their zone. The operator just stands there instead of walking and going to the location, the cartons comes to the operator and they scan, picks products, drops it off and then moves to the next carton and scans the next carton or tote. 

Sometimes it could be some kind of a bulk picking where they are picking for the tote and scans the tote and then goes picks. When they are picking they are scanning the location as well because the inventory in that location has to be decremented and then the inventory going on to the cart and tote has to be incremented. They are doing this all day just standing in that location which means they are not spending time, wasting time walking so that adds to their efficiency. 

Click here to continue reading this article.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Picture Documentation for Freight Claims White Paper – Part I | LoadProof

  INTRODUCTION This document describes the benefits of an effective Picture Documentation System(PDS) that helps with getting Freight Claims Paid faster. An effective pictures documentation system helps with 1 – Get Freight Claims paid much faster by making pictures available quickly and easily, 2 – Provides visibility to the damages through pictures. The visibility gained provides insight into the handling mistakes made while the orders are fulfilled, so that the parties can determine and establish accountability boundaries and get the shipper paid. BACKGROUND What are Freight Claims? A freight claim is a legal demand by a shipper or a consignee to a carrier for financial reimbursement for a loss or a damage of a shipment. Freight Claims are claims submitted by manufacturers/suppliers/shippers to transportation vendors and or carriers, when the goods the Supplier shipped did not arrive at the destination in a pristine state. Instead it arrived as damaged, the packaging was damaged...
Post a Comment
Read more

3PL Panacea: The Flexible Mobile Supply Chain Platform | LoadProof

  The third-party logistics (3PL) business is tough, because it covers a wide gamut of service offerings, that include some combination of: Just move my boxes and/or pallets. Move my boxes and/or pallets and store them in your warehouse. Move my boxes and/or pallets and operate my facility. Own all the labor and activities in my facility. Offer all distribution services for my product (All I will do is download my orders into your system/supply chain). I’ve even run into more complicated models of operation, including both tightly and loosely coupled models.  In a tightly-coupled model, the supply chain systems of the 3PL, including orders, inventory, transportation, advanced shipment notices, purchase orders, and more, are tightly integrated into the shipper’s supply chain systems. All this information seamlessly flows between both supply chain systems of the 3PL and the shipper. They stay in synch with each other and the parties perform the functions in their respective syst...
Post a Comment
Read more

Emotional Investment Leads to Success | LoadProof

  It’s been said that hindsight is 20/20… and it’s certainly true that taking a moment to ponder the outcomes of the projects and activities of the year is useful. I’ve had wild successes, as well as some equally fantastic failures. As a project manager, I’ve always believe that if my team did not accomplish its goals, it pointed to a failure on my part.  Learning from both the ups and the downs is the first brick in building a firm foundation that will allow an organization to stand the test of time even as change accelerates everything around us. Technology is evolving quickly and the world is getting smaller. In the best organizations, the work environment is becoming inter generational and multicultural. Some people are even positing that robots and artificial intelligence (AI) will reform the workforce even more.  How can you build a great team even amidst change? How do you avoid failure as much as possible? How do you turn adversity into opportunity in those moment...
Post a Comment
Read more