Pick to light

Compared with the rest of paperless picking solutions, the Pick-to-light has become the method of picking faster and more efficient and effective preparation of orders. The solution proposed by Adventech Group is the simplest and most economic solution to meet the expectations of customers.

The impact of new technologies and a market trend towards excellence, resulting in a dynamic storage with increasing demands in terms of customization and added value, being necessary to adopt strategies for responding to these expectations.

The order picking systems have traditionally been designed to process a low volume of large orders. Now to address large numbers of small orders, these systems have reduced both the efficiency and effectiveness, while increasing distribution costs and hence the loss of quality service to clients.

Conclusion:
Those companies able to manage orders with accuracy, speed and low cost will get a clear competitive advantage.

"Definition of Pick to light"
What defines a pick-to-light system that is visually guide the operator to the exact locations of the warehouse where the articles of the order are collected. In each case, in light of the operation designed as a solution is to use a certain combination of PDSD (Digital Picking Display). Each location contains a type of item or SKU (Stock Keeping Unit), is associated with a DPD.

The most common model of DPD pushbutton incorporates a light that guides the operator visually to each location and to confirm the operation, accompanied by a display that indicates the required amount of picking to this article.

The DPD also features required to meet the needs of each company and type of solution: configurable models, sounds, lights flicker and color, inventory control, reporting deviations in stock replacement applications, simultaneous picking of multiple operators, etc.

Although the procedure followed is very similar, the picking can be structured in many ways depending on the number of referrals and the disposition of the stock: the requested order preparation, batch preparation (several orders simultaneously) or by picking the hallways or work stations, where the picking is done in sequence.