{"id":12943,"date":"2016-08-30T11:17:03","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T17:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.barcodesinc.com\/news\/?p=12943"},"modified":"2016-09-02T10:39:50","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T16:39:50","slug":"why-automate-your-picking-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.barcodesinc.com\/news\/why-automate-your-picking-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Automate Your Picking Solution?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcodesinc.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Picking_Technology.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12969 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.barcodesinc.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Picking_Technology.png\" alt=\"Picking Technology\" width=\"351\" height=\"210\" align=\"right\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.barcodesinc.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Picking_Technology.png 506w, https:\/\/www.barcodesinc.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Picking_Technology-300x180.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px\" \/><\/a>Being right 99% of the time seems like a quality percentage \u00e2\u20ac\u201c until you calculate what that 1% actually costs an organization.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Babies born annually in the United States = 3,932,181\n<ul>\n<li>At 99% accuracy 39,322 babies are sent home to the wrong parents<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Prescriptions filled annually in the United States = 4.27 billion\n<ul>\n<li>At 99% accuracy 42.7 million Rx are filled incorrectly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Distribution Centers pick 250 million units annually\n<ul>\n<li>At 99% accuracy 2.5 million units are picked incorrectly\n<ul>\n<li>That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s almost 7,000 units picked incorrectly every day if working 365 days\/year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more-->According to recent survey results from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcodesinc.com\/honeywell\">Honeywell<\/a>, organizations that\u00c2\u00a0measure the cost of mis-picks are on average losing &gt;$400,000 a year due to mis-picks in the picking workflow! These costs include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wasted man-hours<\/li>\n<li>Incremental shipping costs<\/li>\n<li>Increased customer service resources<\/li>\n<li>Loss of customer satisfaction<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As you can see it is important to have a warehouse fulfillment center that is accurately delivering your customer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s products on time. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcodesinc.com\/news\/?p=11522\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a> to learn more about picking or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcodesinc.com\/support\/contactinfo.htm\">call one of our representatives<\/a> for a free consultation on a picking solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being right 99% of the time seems like a quality percentage \u00e2\u20ac\u201c until you calculate what that 1% actually costs an organization. Babies born annually in the United States = 3,932,181 At 99% accuracy 39,322 babies are sent home to the wrong parents Prescriptions filled annually in the United States = 4.27 billion At 99% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[224,56],"tags":[1828,712,664,1831,1591,1829,1830,1724,468,252],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Why Automate Your Picking Solution? - Barcoding News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.barcodesinc.com\/news\/why-automate-your-picking-solution\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why Automate Your Picking Solution? - Barcoding News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Being right 99% of the time seems like a quality percentage \u00e2\u20ac\u201c until you calculate what that 1% actually costs an organization. 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