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2. Inbound cartons flow directly from inbound trailers into a miniload ASRS. 3. Picking aisles are on mezzanines on the opposite side of the storage/retrieval aisle. Picking occurs during two shifts. During the third shift, the ASRS machine reconfigures the entire pick line for the next day’s picking activity. 4. Each piece has a bar-code label, and pickers apply a bar-code label to each poly-bagged garment as it is picked into a picking cart. 5. A simple batch picking cart holds two corrugated totes. 6. Order pickers work in dedicated picking zones—one aisle is one zone. 7. Once full, each completed corrugated tote is conveyed to a sorter induction station. The contents of each tote are spilled into an induction station. 8. Induction operators orient each piece so that it is read by an overhead bar-code scanner, by which each piece is assigned to a section on a cross-belt sorter. 9. The cross-belt sorter conveys each piece to its assigned packing lane and diverts it down the lane. 10. Packers move among the three or four lanes assigned to them and sort several pieces into their orders, pack them, and place them on an outbound shipping conveyor running below the bottom of the sorting lane. 11. A mobile packing station makes it easy to move between sorting lanes. Pick from Storage A traditional U-shapedwarehouse layout (Figure 8.10) iincorporates receiving docks, receiving staging, receiving inspection, put-away to reserve storage, reserve pallet storage and pallet picking, case pick-line replenishment from pallet storage, case picking, broken-case pick-line replenishment from case

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