OCTOBER 2020 WAREHOUSING
Picking
e ciency can
grow by as much
as 300% with the
right technology
members work best in which
area and with which tasks.
You can have a better idea of
what products are sold when
and where. Your WMS system
can alert you if particular bins
haven't been inspected recently,
or if certain products are
getting ordered more often.
Being able to respond
quickly to that kind of data is
the edge that can really push
your business in front of the
competition.
Achieve accuracy
Estimates vary across
warehouse industry specialists,
but the average error rate for
most warehouses is somewhere
between 3% and 0.3% of
all orders. As insubstantial
as this might sound, this
measurement doesn't factor
in how returns processing and
warehouse errors means losses
of time, money, work, and
reputation.
Errors can seriously
threaten your business’
competitive edge – something
you need not tolerate with
handheld terminals.
Manual reading of a storage
bin’s label or a pick sheet's
listing leaves a wide range of possible angles
for error. Everything from poor handwriting to
lack of concentration. None of these come into
play when lasers and lenses carry more of the
cognitive load. While errors cannot be entirely
eliminated, as even the best technology is only
as good as the people who use it, they can be
reduced dramatically, noticed more quickly,
corrected effectively, and the cause can be more
readily identified.
Faster fulfilment
With an automated system, the amount of time
it takes a warehouse operative to complete
one order is dramatically reduced. Orders
can be received online. Forms can be filled in
by computer. Picking lists can be drafted and
redrafted in real-time as the day's trading takes
place – even during the pick itself. With all this
work taken out of the equation, more orders
can be fulfilled much faster.
With properly implemented solutions,
OrderWise has helped picking efficiencies
improve by over 300%. All this gives your
customers the one commodity they might value
more than any other: time.
Any business that can save its customer's
time has a competitive edge. The more it
can save, the more it can command a good
reputation. HHTs make it so much easier to
make your fulfilment so much faster to the
point where you cannot be ignored. Take the
cognitive load off your operatives' mental
shoulders, and enjoy the benefits of the latest
offerings of the computer revolution.
staff have all the information
they need, all of the time.
Supervision becomes much
simpler, meaning less staff need
to be deployed on the fl oor,
and more time can be spent on
moving products rather than
managing people.
Get your data delivered
Data is now an integral feature
of the modern business world.
With enough of it, you can
track trends, project patterns,
and make complete sense of
the way your business operates
on a day to day basis. This is
why a good system to capture
and record data is important.
While you can capture
data with manual systems,
it’s diffi cult, requiring a lot of
paper and a lot of dedicated
staff whose job is to record
and remember every last
order. This is expensive, timeconsuming,
error-prone, and
unnecessary in the face of the
digital alternative.
Handheld scanners can
track and record every action in
your warehouse as it happens.
You can see in real-time where
things move slower or faster.
You can learn which staff
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