v Effective Pick Techniques in a warehouse

Selection of the right warehouse : For an E-commerce business, once an order is placed by a customer, the E-Commerce Management System must check for the
nearest warehouses where the specific items are available. Once they are listed, the next thing is to calculate the distance between each warehouses, and thereby
prepare the best route for the easy and quick delivery of the order. This is the optimum method to pick the right warehouse among many warehouses.

E-Commerce
Company
Order

E-Commerce Customer

Warehouse 1

Not Available

11kms

21kms

Warehouse 2
Available

Warehouse 4

Available

Warehouse 3

Available

v An effective pick from one specific warehouse

The system must check how the required items are being placed within the warehouse. Once the locations are identified, the next thing is to plan the type of picking.

There are mainly 3 types to pick the inventories in a warehouse

1. One-sided Picking
2. Two-sided Picking
3. Optimal Path Picking

v 1. One-sided Picking
The order picker visits the locations on one side of the aisle and then returns to visit the
locations on the other side.

This is effective when aisles are reasonably wide or when the picker has to visit at least 50%
of the locations in that aisle.

v 2. Two-sided Picking

The order picker traverses the aisle only once and picks from both the sides at one pass.
This could be more effective and time saving. This will even reduce the effort of travel
significantly.

This is referred to as snake path or S-shape picking.

v 3. Optimal Path Picking

As the name suggest, this is the ideal scenario is for the WMS system to fully optimize the
pick sequence. However, a very few WMS systems can be able to do this. This warehouse
optimizer can determine the best layout for an order-picking area. It determines an optimal
number of aisles and blocks.

Furthermore, it can be used to calculate average travel distances for order-picking

applications.

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