Store Order fulfillment in Retail Industries
Applications
Retail Stores regularly place order of its fast moving merchandise with its warehouse. Pack to light provides a simple yet productive mechanism to speed up process of packing store-order items in the warehouse and sending them to the stores is called store-order fulfilment.
Criteria: No. of Orders << No. of SKUs
Process
- Each store-order consists of a list of SKUs along with the corresponding quantities.
- In the picking phase, SKUs are divided into multiple bins. Each Light Indicator represents a SKU in the Inventory.
- Once the picker goes into picking area and scan a particular bactch,it would triggers the Lights of Glow for those SKUs that are required in that batch. Lights also display the quantity of that SKU required in the ord
- After picking is complete, the pickboxes are transported to the distribution area.
- In the distribution phase, the items are picked from pickboxes and inserted into shipper boxes,
- PTL Station Operator picks item from the pickbox and scans the SKU label of the item using a HHT
- As soon as the SKU is scanned, the lights on the PTL modules glow for the appropriate shipper boxes.
- PTL station operator puts items into the shipper boxes for which the PTL light is glowing
- Substantial reduction in order fulfillment time by individual workman
- Limited skill training of picker as operator is guided by automated light guided software
- Lesser scope of error due to guidance provided by light guided software
- Full proof mechanism as automated troubleshooting for any wrong pick up or error in quantity to be picked
- Lesser travelling time for each worker