Applications Ideally Suited to
FastFetch
- Internet order fulfillment with small
number of lines but large number of orders and requiring
fast/accurate picking.
- Publications fulfillment with large
number of orders of many different line items.
Includes both high and low velocity items.
- Jewelry applications with low items
count but large order count. Accuracy is of paramount
importance so scanning of UPC codes is required for
expensive items but not for lower cost items.
- Automotive parts applications with
special orders and replenishment of stock sold the day
before.
- Pharmaceutical applications where large
numbers of orders must be filled and prepared for delivery
to drug stores overnight. Picking must be fast and
accurate.
- Vending machine replenishment where DEX
data is provided from each machine and prekitting of needed
products must be performed quickly, accurately and in the
route/machine sequence for loading onto delivery trucks.
- Convenience store fast replenishment of
items sold, based upon point of sale data.
- Telecommunications applications where
serial numbers on some products must be captured during
picking.
- Automotive manufacturing applications
where parts must be picked and kitted for each work cell and
placed into cart positions in the same sequence as the cars
coming down the assembly line. These applications
require both fast and accurate picking for just-in-time
delivery to the assembly line.
- Small parts orders with a large number
of SKUs with a small number of high velocity items and a
large number of low velocity items.
- Retail store replenishment orders based
on daily Point of Sale data.
- Shoe replenishment orders where
products are picked directly onto carts and packed with the
assistance of light modules under cart locations.
- Drug store returns of expired products.
Returned products must be sorted back into supplier order
and placed into containers for delivery to manufacturers.
- High rise case picking of products
using a man aboard lift where optimized routing greatly
reduces travel and vertical movement time.
- Store distribution picking where common
SKUs are picked for a large number of stores and distributed
to order bays with a 2-phase picking method.
- Common product picking for a very large
number of orders using a dynamic slotting method.
- Apparel picking where large numbers of
combinations of style, color and size of similar looking
products make accuracy difficult.
- Chargebacks from retailers, due to late
or incorrectly picked store orders, are large and difficult
to manage.
- Food products where specific lot number
must be picked or arbitrary lots may be picked but lot
number must be captured during picking.
- Incentive compensation picking
applications that supply data to an incentive payroll system
so fast/accurate pickers are paid more than slower/less
accurate pickers.
Basically, any application that must fill a large number of
orders with many different line items and requires fast,
accurate picking is a good candidate for FastFetch. Web
orders, replenishment orders and manufacturing kitting orders
with sequencing are ideal candidates.