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If your DC serves retail outlets, you're probably getting more requests for pre-assembled orders that cut down on the labor needed to stock store shelves. The question is, how do you do that without blowing your own budget?
A decade of rapid growth left Scandinavian electronics retailer Komplett struggling to keep up with orders. But an AS/RS got the operation back online.
Utz Quality Foods wanted a way to assure there was nothing in its bags of snack foods but the product itself. With its new automated system and in-line X-ray, it now has visual proof.
In some of today's high-tech warehouses, workers no longer trudge up and down aisles to fill orders. Sophisticated machines deliver everything they need right to their stations.
An integrated order picking system has slashed labor costs, boosted throughput, and virtually eliminated errors at KeHe Distributors' new DC. And it used ordinary technologies to do it.
With just one year to convert 40 DC operations from RF to voice, medical supplier Owens & Minor decided its only chance lay in developing a completely bulletproof plan.