Top 10 Trends Driving Order Fulfillment

Labor force issues include: employee turnover, injuries, absenteeism, safety, ergonomic conditions, productivity and the increasing influence of government regulation. The sum of these issues is causing distribution operations to rethink the order fulfillment process and incorporate new methods and designs.

To improve worker productivity and ergonomics while improving the worker experience, more distribution operations are implementing real time paperless picking systems.

For example, some distribution operations blend voice and light directed technology to maximize the efficiency and accuracy of their workers. With this design, a team of order selectors use a voice directed system to pre-pick SKU’s required for customer orders. Once picked, a conveyor network delivers the SKU’s to a “Put-to-order” module. Once the SKU’s arrive at the module, a light directed system indicates which SKUs are to be “put” to each order container.