Overview
The Dematic Multi-Order Pick Piece Pick System is ideal for operations with low-end order volume rates. Operators use PickCarts to pick up to 16 discrete orders in a single pass. The facility is arranged into picking zones, each supporting a specific SKU category and the inventory made available on shelving, flow rack, or pallets.
Typical operations for this system provide order fulfillment for direct-to-consumer delivery, retail store replenishment, and regional delivery business-to-business. Primary applications include producers and distributors of office supplies, healthcare supplies, apparel, general merchandise, automotive parts, and industrial supplies.
Benefits
- Process improvements for optimized workflows
- Standardized system for easy-to-manage, predictable performance
- Improved service levels and responsiveness
- Flexible and configurable with re-usable assets
- Visibility and insight of operations
System description
The Dematic Multi-Order Pick Piece Pick System has a pre-engineered, standardized design configuration that ensures predictable picking performance. Here is the general order of how the system functions:
- Receive and put-away: When inventory is received into the facility, it is recorded in the WMS and transported to reserve storage or active pick faces.
- Pick multiple orders: Workers pick orders. System modules system include order start, picking zones by size/weight/velocity, packing workstations, and shipping. Workers use voice directed PickCarts that hold multiple order containers. They make a single pass through the warehouse picking multiple orders, typically 12 to 24 per PickCart.
- Pack and ship: When all the orders on a PickCart is complete, it is moved to a packing workstation for preparation to be shipped.
Note: Put-away and picking activities are voice directed.
System management
The Dematic Warehouse Management System (WMS) software is responsible for the overall operation of the facility, including inventory location and status management, receiving, put-away, pick face replenishment, picking, packing, and shipping. There is an interface to the ERP host.
Received inventory is recorded in the Dematic WMS software where it is associated with fixed storage or replenishment locations. The system communicates with workers through voice technology.
The Dematic WMS software includes supervisor interface screens such as pick global view, pick performance, system progress, order information, picks per operator, and total picks.
ERP (Host)
- Order entry
- Manage inventory
Fulfillment orders
Status and completion
Dematic Warehouse Management System
- Inventory location and quality management
- Receiving and put-away, replenishment
- Picking, packing, shipping
- Order management and execution
- Order attributes, priority, changes
- Balance, synchronize workload
- Visibility and insight
Comparison
The Dematic Multi-Order Pick Piece Pick System is more accurate, requires less labor to operate, and is more efficient than conventional picking systems.
| Conventional Picking | Multi-Order Picking |
| ERP module directs functions | WMS software directs and optimizes functions from receiving to shipping |
| One order picked per pass through warehouse (discrete order pick) | 12 to 24 orders picked per pass through warehouse |
| Pick instructions from RF handheld device screen or paper list | Voice-directed pick instructions (hands free, ergonomic, safe, accurate) |
| Mis-read instructions on screen or paper create errors | Voice-directed instructions provide high accuracy |
| Non-strategic workforce management | Strategic and synchronized workforce management |
| Very little pick path route optimization | All pick path routes optimized |
| Time-consuming, labor-intensive quality control procedures required | Highly accuracy performance eliminates need for quality control procedures |
| Less throughput capacity | More throughput capacity |