Computerized shipping-manifest system stacks up
By Staff -- Modern Materials Handling, 9/15/1999
Nortel Networks, a California-based networking solutions supplier, made the decision to fully automate its shipping and warehousing operations.In all, five shipping manifest systems, loaded on Pentium-based PCs, are in use, easily supporting a sustained processing rate of 1.2 seconds per package.
The new system communicates with the warehouse management system in real time and interfaces with the enterprise resource planning system running on the host computer. It is also integrated with sensors positioned along the conveyor line, conveyor controllers for sorting packages based on carriers and destinations, in-motion scales, and a print-and-apply system.
Processing 29,000 packages 16 hours a day, shipping operations consolidate and bundle customer orders by ship-to information, significantly reducing shipping costs and manual procedures. Packages are automatically sorted into six sortation lanes and staging areas by delivery mode, type, carrier, and order volume. Customer routing instructions are also automatically processed.
Once its automated shipping operation was in place, the company was able to reduce its warehouse staffing requirements and save $1 million annually in labor costs. Neopost
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