Warehouse Automation Explained | The Future of Fulfillment | Warehouse Black Friday Preparations
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Really cool to see the system coming together.
Currently on a mission in my own warehouse to improve pick and receiving accuracy. Any general tips you can provide?
What is your current process? Are you scanning orders or are you manually picking of printed sheets?
@ scanning with RF. 17k skus, ranging from small parts, to case lot, to bulk and industrial pipe. We pick in clusters by truck route priority and use an as400 wms. Small parts get picked and packed at a dedicated audit station, same with case lot at their own and bulk/pipe at their own. Challenges I see are product knowledge gaps, wms pack process doesn’t have a upc scan to force packer to scan each item (they key in total qty). Often times Errors are getting caught after the fact by customers as opposed to packers.
@@Itsbradgibson 17k skus is a lot to manage! I think there should definitely be a scan in place at either the pick or the pack, our system requires both, so there is actually a 2 step verification for every item. We do sacrifice a bit of speed for accuracy here, but I think it is worth it. I would look into an integration or maybe a new wms that will allow a scan at the pack station.
@@Itsbradgibson please tell me there's a more modern version of an AS400 than massive server we got rid of a few years ago that looked like a DOS interface.
@ nope. I feel like Neo in the matrix using this thing…
It feels like the PIO is slow when you are just standing there... if you have an order with 5 lines and you have to wait 30+ seconds between each pick you're losing a few minutes there. But then I think about time to physically run through/around even a small warehouse, add on a bit of time for errors once in a while, and maybe it's closer than I think.
Am I thinking about that correctly or do you have people sitting around for a minute or two? Does PIO queue up the next bin up top?
The cool thing about the PIO is that it will actually work overnight to prep orders. So, when you get started in the morning, it will have orders already queued up to where they will just drop bins back to back. When an order does have 5+ line items, there can be a small wait time, but nothing compared to the manual running/picking of items like you mentioned. We have still been in sort of prep mode, but the day we did pack on it for about 5 hours, we got a TON of orders done, so I do think it is a lot faster!
@@relaydistro Very cool. Thanks. How does it prp the orders for the morning? Re-arrange bins or does it use some of the vertical columns as staging locations for the queue?
@@mmcnama4 Yes, it will stage all of the bins at the top layers for quick access!