BROKEN CASE PICKING SYSTEMS

Chapter seven RightStore Pieces: Piece Picking Principles, Systems, and Best Practices

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Figure 7.22 Mezzanine picking operation atVerizon Logistics East Coast distribution center

Picker-to-Stock Retrieval Methods PTS retrieval methods include cart picking, tote picking, person-aboard systems, and robotic item picking. The pros, cons, and applications of each are described next. Cart Picking A wide variety of picking-cart types (Figures 7.23 through 7.34) are available to facilitate accumulating, sorting, documenting, and/or packing orders as an order picker makes a picking tour. Conventional carts provide dividers for order sorting, a place to hold paperwork and marking instruments, and a stepladder for picking at levels slightly above reaching height. Batch picking carts are designed to allow an order picker to pick multiple orders on a picking tour, thus dramatically improving productivity as opposed to strict single-order picking for small orders. More sophisticated carts automatically transport an order picker to a pick location, use light

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