Picking speed vs. accuracy: how Put Wall helps achieve both

Achieving a balance between speed and accuracy is crucial for maintaining operational efficiency and customer satisfaction in warehousing. This is where the innovative Put Wall system comes in. This shelving module helps minimize human error, assisting in picking the correct items consistently. These put-to-light systems provide immediate feedback, allowing workers to correct mistakes and maintain high accuracy quickly.

Large-scale warehouses have to fulfill a high volume of orders quickly. While speed is crucial for meeting tight deadlines, prioritizing it over accuracy can lead to errors. Incorrectly picked items can result in delayed deliveries, frustrated customers, and additional work for returns and replacements. The ideal solution empowers warehouses to achieve both rapid order fulfillment and exceptional picking accuracy.

The Put Wall system is engineered to integrate seamlessly with pick-to-light and put-to-light systems. These light-directed systems utilize strategically placed lights to guide warehouse associates in picking the correct items. In a pick-to-light system, individual lights illuminate the items to be picked for each order. Put-to-light systems, ideal for e-commerce with its high volume of orders with multiple SKUs, direct associates to locations where items are placed for specific orders.

The Put Wall system’s compatibility with these light-directed technologies significantly enhances picking accuracy. Put Wall minimizes picking errors and helps ensure order fulfillment accuracy by visually directing associates to the items needed. Furthermore, the optimized layout and configurability of Put Wall contribute to faster picking times. The system promotes efficient workflow and reduces unnecessary travel within the warehouse, ultimately accelerating the order fulfillment process.

Put Wall’s compatibility with light-directed technologies, such as pick-to-light warehouse systems, significantly enhances picking speed. These systems use visual cues to guide workers to the correct items, reducing the time spent searching for products. The put-to-light system further optimizes the sorting process, allowing multiple orders to be batch-picked and sorted efficiently, thus increasing throughput.

Accuracy is critical in order fulfillment, and the Put Wall system excels in this area. By integrating with pick-to-light systems, Put Wall helps minimize human error, aiding in the consistent picking of correct items. Light-directed picking systems provide immediate feedback, allowing workers to correct mistakes and maintain high accuracy quickly.

• Increased pick rate productivity: Average increase of 40% over manual methods.
• Space savings: A 24” shelf means more layout options and increased flexibility.
• Lean manufacturing: Ideal for kitting and assembly in lean manufacturing environments.
• Improved efficiency: Light-directed systems work well in high-density areas, reducing walk time associated with paper-based picking.
• Cost efficiency: Put-to-light systems are cost-efficient and do not require a light at every SKU in the warehouse.

The Put Wall system offers an innovative solution to balancing picking speed and accuracy in large-scale warehousing. By leveraging advanced light-directed technologies, Put Wall ensures that warehouses can meet the high demands of modern e-commerce with greater efficiency and precision. Decision-makers looking to optimize warehouse operations should consider the Put Wall system for its proven benefits in enhancing speed and accuracy.