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Move over, Han Solo. Retailer Too Inc. has also made the jump to lightspeed. Its blazing fast new put-to-light fulfillment system has sent DC operations into hyperdrive.
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There's more to conveyor performance than feet per minute. Smart users look for systems that can be installed quickly, are simple to maintain and stay up no matter what.
Large products or small, high volume or not so high?there are automated sortation applications available. But choose with care?you'll be living with your choices for years to come.
For a good 20 years, pick-to-light systems have lit the way for order pickers racing to meet deadlines. Now the challenge is to integrate these systems with warehouse management software, which hasn't always been an easy sell. Stay tuned.
In a crunch a space crunch, that is a high-rise automated storage and retrieval system can work wonders, freeing up acres of DC floor space. And you'd be astonished to learn just what today's systems can handle.