How can you play down the number of time workers spend traveling in your warehouse’s pick and pack operations?
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So how do we work on reducing the travel time of your warehouse workers.
There are many different ways to pick from the simple “piece picking” method to the wave picking method.
In the simple, piece picking method the orders are picked by one one packed and sent out for delivery.
Unless, you are working on small volumes or in high value items this method is a waste of time and if you have a large warehouse a huge wasteage of energy.
But in “wave picking method multiple orderders can be combined into a single wave, like for example, all orders pertaining to the grocery aisle can be batched into a single wave so that your oder pickers can go to that particular section of your warehouse and pick the multiple orders.
To be precise choosing the right picking method to maximize the efficiency of your operations depends on multiple variables most importantly the value of the goods, volume of the orders handled daily and the size of the warehouse.
Once you identify all these variables and have identified the right pick method, you can digitize the entire process using a warehouse management system to organize the tasks given to the order pickers such that it minimizes travel time.
This is Alphonse, the product manager of VisAI Labs and this is the logistics insights for today.
