Topic: Inventory & Picking

How can you utilize micro-fulfillment?

Voice-directed solutions do more than translate pick lists in voice instructions. These solutions are multi-modal, using wearable scanners and Android device screens when appropriate, and have evolved to handle work execution functions and integrate with mobile robots.

Dealing with labor scarcity and overwhelming productivity demands? Robots may be your ideal solution. Warehouse Robotics White Paper, Vanderlande White Paper, Robotics sortation.

Brightpick (Booth N8332) is showcasing the recently announced Brightpick Autopicker at ProMat 2023.

Swisslog (Booth S3823), a provider of best-in-class warehouse automation and software, is displaying the next generation of its CarryPick mobile robotic goods-to-person storage and retrieval system

On Tuesday at ProMat 2023, MHI CEO John Paxton presented The Raymond Corporation and Durham Manufacturing Company with awards to commemorate 100 years in the industry.

In a project considered to be a first, Element Logic, AutoStore, RightHand Robotics, and Apotea blend robotic cube storage with robotic piece picking to be able to deliver approximately 50,000 orders per day.

In one of its Louisville fulfillment centers, Radial has combined conventional automation for picking with a robotic putwall for order assembly. The goal: demonstrate leadership in automation to improve productivity.

Robotic putwalls have replaced manual putwalls to address labor challenges and speed orders through packing.

Widely used inside the four walls, wireless mobile devices from scanners and printers to tablets are a strong player in facility productivity. Recent advances ensure that they’ll become increasingly valuable to workflows and throughput efficiencies.

Ehrhardt Partner Group's new voice solution, Lydia Voice 9, was formally certified by SAP with SAP S/4HANA and SAP NetWeaver for Extended Warehouse Management (EWM).

New funds primarily to be used to scale Brightpick’s warehouse automation solution for ecommerce and grocery order fulfillment in the U.S. market. his round brings the company’s total capital raised since inception to $53 million.

The last couple of years have been tumultuous for supply chains, with inventory control tending to suffer. But operations can regain control over inventory accuracy and planning, and perhaps enhance it, through methods and technologies that include computer vision, WMS upgrades and a newer generation of AI-based planning solutions.

It’s all about inventory and the consumer as retailers struggle to find the right balance of philosophy, operations and technology.

Larry Lapide explains why he’s a fan of inventory, especially good inventory on this episode of Talking Supply Chain.

How a national distributor of pet foods and supplies leveraged a voice-directed solution to improve warehouse order fulfillment and keep its workforce engaged and productive.

Company has effortlessly eliminated battery watering and change-outs.

The automation was implemented at three of the cold chain fulfillment service’s facilities.

With the new technology, the distributor increased productivity by 15%.

Pick-to-light systems as a user interface have evolved, and the incarnations leverage the core speed and accuracy of traditional light guidance and may also reduce infrastructure barriers of traditional pick-to-light modules or put-to-light systems.