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Manual Cross Docking
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Axiom recognises that it is not always economically viable to solve all
logistics related problems with automation.
One complex issue to solve is customer order fulfillment and the usual
swing between the efficiency of wave picking and the convenience of order picking.
Wave picking brings big picking efficiency, but there is always the
requirement to carry out the secondary order level sort, order picking is convenient
and can be manned up as required.
Sortation equipment is a costly way to solve the secondary sort required for
wave picking as the number of ship to destinations that are required pushes the
investment higher than pay back benefits allow for.
Companies who operate with huge peak periods in their business are reluctant to
make capital investment in automation because, during the quiet periods the costing
savings can't be cost justified.
However, companies are constantly pressed to deliver quality and accuracy to their
customers, lowering the number of inaccurate deliveries and providing traceability
down to an item level.
Axiom have an ideal economically viable solution, providing accuracy, integrity and
cost saving due to increased levels of efficiency.
Axiom's experience is that most customers prefer to pick items from the warehouses
using a wave picking method, substantially limiting the number of visits a picker
has to make to a picking location, in some cases this efficiency is further justified
by picking en mass from bulk locations using some form of mechanical handling equipment.
The wave of items is usually bought to a forward picking face, where orders are
fulfilled from the waiting stock.
Axiom's manual cross docking system allows shipments picked in a wave manner to be
consolidated into a forward pick face, the ship to customer specific order data is
passed from the client to Axiom.
Axiom break the ship to customer data down into single shipments, consolidating
wherever possible multiple customer orders into one shipment, or consignment.
The total shipment is activated via a web browser user interface. The system then
allocates the consignments by largest volume first to consolidation areas, or floor
spots, each floor spot is labelled with a barcode location, if there are more consignments
than floor spots the balance is queued for processing when floor spots become free.
Wrist mounted R/F hand held scanners are used to scan each item, the system looks
at each consignment and "sends" the picker with the item to the floor spot.
The floor spot is scanned to bind the item to the consignment.
When the consignment is complete the system automatically prints consignment
shipping documentation and generates a shipping manifest.
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