The Basics of Manual and Automated Picking
1. Introduction
As a small and medium size business that fulfills and ships orders for customers, the “Picking Process”, if it is not already, will consume more resources than any other area of your fulfillment operation. Whether you know it or not, you do already have a picking process, even if it is just the daily ritual of taking the day’s orders and walking out into the garage to find the items you need to ship.
The question is, are you going to be comfortable using that process as you grow and have confidence that you will achieve the most important objective which impacts your customers – accuracy?
Will the process that works for you now with thirty orders per day still make sense when you have one hundred thirty orders per day? What about a thousand? If you are banking on your own business success in the future, then the answer to that question has to be “No”. Yes?
Now that you know that: 1. Picking is going to be a huge part of your business in terms of resources and customer impact and 2. Your existing process isn’t going to cut it as you grow. What are you going to do about it?
Continue reading to learn more about some of your options and the benefits of being pro-active about constantly evolving tools, technology and processes – your business depends on it!
