Retail industry consist in all business that sells products to final consumers. The best-known formats of this classification are found in pharmacies, department stores and supermarkets.
Retail industry embraces 80% of trade economy, making it a priority for companies to maintain high levels of production and distribution that meet all market demand.
In this blog, you will find out, why implementing a sortation system is the best automated alternative in the retail industry:
Retail industry is now multi-channel
Without any doubt, the retail businesses have changed their production and distribution systems used for decades, now final customers order in different amounts and through different channels, like e-Commerce.
New technologies available, such as e-Commerce have diversified the selling model, every day more customers prefer to buy virtually, because of the transaction conveniences.
Thanks to all these changes, companies have begun to adapt their Distribution Centers to satisfy, timely and correctly, both in-store and virtual consumers, who already represent a considerable percentage of sales.
Sortation System: the heart of your Distribution Center.
Once the company realized that it needs to innovate the operation process to keep up with market needs, is time to analyze about the best automated tool: a sorter.
A Sortation design could become the heart of your Distribution Center thanks to the control that the WCS (software) gives you. This software identifies the order as of customer’s request then it assigns a delivery date.
How exactly does the system work? When the time for order preparation begins, the system identifies the best assortment tool such as, Pick to Light, Pick to Voice, or Pick to Belt, then the sorter takes the product and read it through the high resolution and speed scanner, after that immediately goes to the data base and decides, depending on the requirements, the destination and where to send each product: distribution to trucks or Palletizing.
Also, the sorter brings a real-time visualization of the order, this is how the operation’s status is known and the final customer is always relaxed.
Do not let that technologic factors jeopardize your credibility, neither that business opportunities come down for the lack of adaptability to the changes that are needed now in trade transactions.
