Smart Picking saves time, people and cost
1st January 2011
If you've ever shopped at a supermarket you will have recognised the practice of strategically placing items around the store to ensure you need to pass the majority of stock held in order to reach the essential items and likely cause of your visit. This idea is of strategically placing items so you have to walk the furthest distance is obviously designed to encourage you to browse items you may not have thought of but could be tempted into buying.
In warehousing for automotive manufacturing, the exact opposite is true and bin allocation is designed for smart picking. So the person picking has to travel the shortest possible distance to get what they need in the shortest possible time.
This may sound a simple process but the COST team at Rudolph and Hellmann Automotive have developed a sophisticated and dynamic approach to guaranteeing maximum efficiency and pick accuracy. It involves grouping high frequency items and low frequency items in dedicated areas designed in line with sequencing requirements. This innovation has dramatically reduced time, cost and errors from the picking process.
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