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delivered to a picking face. Products are stored in totes in
miniload aisles. The bottom of the system has a large number
of facings where the totes are brought for picking. Lights
direct picking from the delivered totes into order totes. The
product totes continuously change position as they are
retrieved and placed into the facing, then sent back to storage
after picking has been completed.
The Ergonomic-Dynamic Picking System, which is used for
selecting full cases, puts a different spin on fulfillment.
Workers are automatically transported to pick locations, riding through aisles on six crane carts that move horizontally or
vertically to positions holding 800 different stock-keeping
units (SKUs) that ship as full cases. Upon arrival at a picking
location, the worker selects the required case and deposits it
onto an order pallet, which adjusts up and down automatically to a comfortable height for picking. The worker then push-es a button and the cart whisks him to the next pick location
until the pallet is complete.
A fourth AS/RS acts as a shipping buffer. It contains 11 aisles
to hold totes filled with picked products until they’re ready to
ship. It then releases them in sequence to a stacker that gathers the totes onto wheeled carts for shipment. Upon delivery
to stores, the carts are simply wheeled into shop aisles to make
restocking shelves easy.
Idaho State Liquor Division
Not every facility is able to invest in a full goods-to-person
picking system, but that doesn’t mean it can’t benefit from the
technology. Distribution operations can still realize big gains
by using AS/RS systems for tasks like replenishment.
A case in point is the Idaho State Liquor Division, which is
completing the installation of a three-aisle AS/RS system that
will be used to replenish storage racks in its Boise DC. The
AS/RS, which holds more than 3,000 pallets in double-deep
racks, will solve a sticky storage problem for the liquor distributor. For some time, the Boise facility, which supplies spirits and liquor to 166 state-owned or -contracted stores, has
been grappling with a capacity shortage. Installing the AS/RS
system, which was supplied by Interlake Mecalux, will allow it
to store most of its reserve inventory in just 17,000 square feet
of floor space.
Once the system is up and running, pallets will be discharged at a floor-level station that will be used to replenish
forward case picking locations on the bottom levels of the
existing static storage rack. A second output station is located
on an upper mezzanine. Pallets for split-case picking will be
delivered to this station, where cases will be removed from the
pallets and conveyed to the back of flow racks. The cases will
then be made ready for split-case picking.
“We are going to touch the product less often,” says Bill
Applegate, the facility’s product general manager. “Just in all
ways, we’ll have a lot denser product storage, and we’ll be freeing
up space in the original warehouse for either lower-volume items
or to create more picking locations. Our plan is for this AS/RS to
meet our needs today and as much as 25 years in the future.” ;
