Picking

The picking process is often the process at the warehouse on which most focus is concentrated, and therefore routines, picking dialogues and equipment must be tailored precisely to the working procedures that are most expedient in terms of achieving the warehouse’s capacity and quality targets.

Order planning and online status
As receipts of orders are completed in the ERP system, picking orders are transferred to LOGIA. Picking orders are planned, split up and commenced in the most expedient order taking into account delivery time, urgent orders, available goods, personnel resources, etc.

Movements in picking are registered online and provide status on the day’s picking rounds (which orders are issued, in progress and finished), stock levels, etc.

Picking in the automated warehouse
When picking orders are issued, LOGIA activates cranes and vertical lifts that begin the outputting of items to manual or automatic picking stations. In the case of manual picking, the picking job is typically displayed on a touch-screen, where the employee can also acknowledge the picking procedure or search for other information.

Picking in the manual warehouse
In a manual warehouse it is the picker that moves around to pick up the items, and in this case focus is applied to the optimisation of the picking round and the order in which picking takes place.

The picker is guided through his/her picking procedure via simple dialogues on his/her PDA, forklift truck terminals or headset. LOGIA’s picking process has integrated dynamic functions for:

• Volume calculation – display of the number of expected packed pallets
• Zero-level observation counting – reconciliation of expected and current stock level
• Replenishment – picking locations are continuously replenished so that personnel do not waste time on fruitless journeys
• Splitting up of picking procedure – one line can be distributed onto several pallets

Minimising erroneous picking
LOGIA contains tools for minimising errors in connection with picking, including:

• Scanning of item or location barcode
• Reading of the location’s control ID

These functions can be set up individually at item and operative level.