Order picking is by far the most costly function in a distribution centre. The task of selecting the items a customer wants from bulk in the quantities he wants, when he wants them involves many labour intensive functions, including deciding what has to be picked, where it is and how to get there and where to take it next. Many of these activities involve the picker performing non productive tasks such as travel. What you need is a picking solution that helps your pickers do what you pay them to do and that is to pick customer orders.
Dematic has developed new techniques that minimise travel and other non-value adding tasks and maximise picker performance. Modern full case and tote picking solutions offer dramatic improvements in productivity, accuracy and speed of delivery.
The solutions described below vary in investment depending on the level of automation included. All, however, will add significantly to the efficiency and the quality of output of a DC employing the solution.
