Order Picking

No matter what industry you’re in, what size parts you inventory or how many orders you fill daily—order fulfillment is a labor intensive and time consuming task. Adding in a global pandemic and never ending supply chain disruptions has only made order fulfillment more complicated. Not to worry—we’ve detailed 15 order picking best practices you can easily implement to improve overall order fulfillment.

This white paper outlines a calculation for estimating the true cost of picking errors in an order fulfillment operation. It also presents automated technology solutions to improve pick accuracy and shares a calculation for determining the savings they can deliver.

In this white paper, we’ll explore the concept of the perfect order, share strategies companies are using to attain the perfect order and provide solutions that allow companies to increase order accuracy without having to make a significant cost or time investment.

Increase your operation’s accuracy and reduce costs associated with errors by deploying automated, goods-to-person, storage and retrieval systems

Since 50+% of warehouse labor resources are typically involved in picking, packing and shipping outbound orders, it usually makes sense to focus on these operations first. Now may be the time to revisit some basic first principles to maximizing warehouse efficiency. With this entry, we focus on 5 ways to improve picking operations.

Augusta engaged FORTE to develop a long-range strategic plan that as manufacturing within the facility was phased out, the storage and picking capacities in the distribution operation would expand in phases.

Perfect Pick is a unique, goods-to-person picking solution that dramatically improves the rate and efficiency that inventory moves through a warehouse or distribution center. Highly scalable and flexible, Perfect Pick is engineered to simplify the complexity associated with other technologies. Perfect Pick’s revolutionary “one-touch” design is based on a single component, the iBOT.

While other automation manufacturers boast of achieving high pick rates, these material handling solutions typically require a substantial footprint and multiple components, or touch points, including elevators, conveyors or lifts.

OPEX's Perfect Pick™ is a unique, automated, high-speed, goods-to-man, piece picking solution based on proven iBOT™ delivery technology. Perfect Pick dramatically improves the rate and efficiency that goods move through a warehouse or distribution center.