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Operations are challenged with driving higher throughputs, and accuracy, within ever smaller operational footprints and labor pools to drive expectations of cost efficiency.  

Nearly 50% of warehouse labor resources are involved in picking, packing, and shipping outbound orders; so it often makes sense to focus on these operations first. However, receiving operations (intake) contribute to downstream process accuracy, so these processes need to be taken into consideration as well. This worksheet addresses areas of consideration to discuss with your automation vendor; for the improvement for intake, sortation, and pick accuracy.

Step 1: Intake (induction) subsystem: What are the SKU attributes?

Step 2: Sortation subsystem: How does the product move to market? 

Step 3: Pick Accuracy: Have you encountered any of these missteps?

*Be careful that a focus on accuracy doesn’t reduce throughput.

How automation can help

Flexibility is crucial to keeping up with consumer’s rapidly increasing delivery and customization expectations. With so much change in the marketplace, and especially as e-commerce continues to shape new trajectories for technology integration, companies must be able to adapt. Robots can perform repetitive tasks around and with zero diminishments to their output capacity and accuracy rate.  Consider automation when your operation is looking for/to:

• A throughput rate of 10,000 or more cases/units processed per eight hour day (or work shift)
• 99% or higher sorting accuracy rate
• Minimizing product damage
• Increasing productivity (ex: reduce incremental headcount increases and turnover rate)
• Manage slow movers
• Optimizing existing facility and process capacity
• The necessity to improve working conditions and safety
• Complying with industry regulations on accuracy 

Want to know more?

Learn about Vecna Robotics’ entire fleet of self-driving vehicles from our Automated Material Handling and Hybrid Fulfillment brochures. Vecna will be displaying a wide range of vehicles, including its autonomous Tugger and Pallet Jack at booth #S4583. We’ll be showcasing our Automated Material Handling, Hybrid Fulfillment, and Workflow Optimization solutions, along with the self-driving vehicles and technology that fuels them.

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