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MODEX 2014 reflected the industry’s commitment to the next generation of the supply chain, warehousing, logistics and distribution workforce.

“Perfect Pick is an automated goods-to-person delivery solution that utilizes intelligent iBOTs. It enables pickers to be much more efficient because product is delivered directly to them." -- Jeff Hedges, President, OPEX Material Handling

As Internet sales surge and customer expectations intensify, companies are working to create a web of inventory visibility, fulfillment speed and order accuracy.

Whether they are opening new DCs, improving inventory control, or turning to 3PLs to improve processes, survey respondents tell that there’s no one prominent way to keep costs in check while simultaneously improving service levels.

Analysts are pointing to 2012 as the year in which warehousing was finally recognized as a competitive weapon for multichannel online businesses. Progressive companies like Amazon.com are rapidly advancing the art and science of one of the supply chain’s most important—and most customer-facing—functions.

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.

Showcasing the Perfect Pick goods-to-person piece picking solution in a press conference on Tuesday, OPEX Material Handling (Booth 619), director of marketing Beth Ann Haven Ferner noted that the system has been engineered to eliminate the complexity associated with other shuttle technologies—and attendees at the show have been taking notice.

Among the nearly 800 exhibitors at ProMat are five companies making their debut at the event.

All finalists will be showcased on the show floor, with winners announced prior to Tuesday's keynote.

Mini-loads and shuttles are the engines driving new order fulfillment processes.