Speed and efficiency are two elements that cannot be missing in your Distribution Center to ensure that the operation of it is as natural as possible. These two goals - quickness and efficiency - can be achieved by automating your processes.
In this blog we will discuss the best way to improve your distribution process through the implementation of assortment towers combined with pick to belt technology, as these two solutions have different advantages that combined will undoubtedly help you achieve your distribution objectives. Know here your benefits!
Assortment towers
- What you are looking for with an assortment tower is to have a specialized area only for the assortment of products at the box or item level, taking advantage of the space you have in your Distribution Center to the maximum.
- You can concentrate the assortment of box or item by having a tower of up to 5 levels so that the refill movements are at pallet level to make the movements of the forklifts more efficient. In this way people manage to make a consolidated assortment of products for different
- Slotting allows you to have an arrangement of the products in low, medium and high rotation; by implementing this system you balance the work load your people have so they can be more
- I.Eicom offers you the benefit of analyzing all the orders, the quantities of parts there will be, the quantities of boxes will be handled in a day, how much storage and refill products are needed, how many forklift movements will there be in the Distribution Center to be as productive as possible.
Pick to Belt
What is recommended to implement in the assortment towers is a Pick to Belt system, for the different benefits that it will bring to your DC:
- The people within your Distribution Center will reduce the transfer on foot thanks to the band of power with which this solution counts. This band is responsible for sending your products to a classification
- That is how the people within your Distribution Center will get the most out of the time to be able to source more product in the shortest possible
These are some of the benefits that assortment towers combined with a pick to belt solution can provide to your Distribution Center.
In G.I.Eicom we are given the task of determining and analyzing all the aspects that your distribution requires in order to offer you the best option that your Distribution Center becomes as productive as possible.
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