Warehouse

Picking
Technology
 • The order picking is one of the process
in warehouse management.
• It consist of collecting and taking
articles in a specified quantity before
What is picking in shipment to satisfy customer demands.
warehouse? • There are many different methods of
picking such as Zone picking, batch
picking, multi batch order picking and
single order picking.
What all factors drive use of picking technologies?

Growing needs of customer raised high demand in e-commerce business because of which the
Distribution Centres (DCs) need to quickly cope up with these demands with there efficient intra logistics
movement.

As the rise in demands the warehouses or DC’s need to convert there manual process with automated
solution. Picking of order is the main challenge faced as this phase directly links with the customers.

Correct quantity, right product and with high accuracy should be picked from storage unit and shipped to
the customer

There are various picking technologies such as Pick by voice, pick by light and picking by vision which
drive picking process very efficiently and high accuracy.
 Pick-To-Light

Mechanism- Pick-to-Light consist of a digital

display, which shows the quantity to be picked.
Picking
Technologies It also consist of one LED light to guide the
picker, once the operation is complete picker
updates the system by just pressing the LED light.

It is best suited for high-speed picking, zone

picking, batch picking operations.
 Pick To Light

Alpha Numeric
Display

LED Touch
Button
 HIGH THROUGHPUT: HIGH ACCURACY: GREEN SOLUTION:
PICKING RATE OF 500 OFFERS AN PAPERLESS ORDER
Benefits of ORDER LINES/HOUR. ACCURACY OF 99.7% PICKING

pick to light

EASY TO USE AND REAL TIME

TRAIN PEOPLE. INVENTORY
TRACKING.
 Pick by Voice

1. The voice picking system uses speech recognition to

allow warehouse operators who are performing the
picks to communicate with WMS.
2. The picker uses a headset and microphone to
Picking receive instruction by voice.
3. The picker verbally confirm their action back to the
technologies system
4. The picker will read back the last two digits of the
item they have picked so that the system can check
the correct item has selected
5. The WMS will then give the operator the next
instruction based on the algorithm in the WMS
system.
Benefits of Pick by voice
Productivity: twice as fast as paper based picking and three time fast as RF based
picking.

Advance Analytics: Offers productivity reports as per the zones and picker in real
time.

Easy to learn: simpler and intuitive, takes only 20 minutes to train a new picker

Safety: It keeps hands and eyes free which creates a more alert and aware
workforce.
 Pick by Vision
• Picker wears smart glasses loads a batch of
orders to be picked and ask via built in
microphone to be given the next location
where a pick is to be performed.
Picking • When the picker reaches the location, smart
Technologies glasses scan the location barcode and validate
that picker is in right place.
• The built-in vision system recognizes the
product and verifies that correct item is picked.
• Picker are visually and audibly guided to put
product into right position on the carts
• When this pick is complete, the system
updates the order status.
 Mobile Solution: It is wearable technology
which can be used anywhere with long
charge period.

Voice-Controlled processing
Benefits of
Pick by vision
Barcode scanning and image capture

Global Positioning: A built-in GPS system

with operator navigation and positioning
within the warehouse
 Picking is outmost important to increase
productivity of warehouse.

Reduces the labour cost.

Importance of
adopting Minimize product touching
picking
technologies High Throughput

High accuracy
 Thank You
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