pulled by the cranes and taken to a drop-off station. The
system can retrieve 165 pallets an hour. From there, shuttle transfer cars and conveyors transport the pallets to the
shipping area, where 12 lanes await. The system is
designed with swivels within the conveyor that can turn
the pallet for loading with either the long or short edge
leading. Some pallets will be loaded immediately onto
outbound trucks for just-in-time processing, while other
items will be staged for shipping. Loading is conducted on
two shifts, with the warehouse management system helping to keep the workload balanced. Over 60 trucks can be
loaded daily.
While 95 percent of products ship as either a full or half
pallet, the remaining 5 percent of products ship as pallets
with mixed cases. The new AS/RS has made it much easier
to pick cartons for these mixed-case loads. Pallets are
retrieved from the storage system and taken to a small picking area, where workers remove cartons for orders as directed by handheld terminals. The source pallet is then sent
back to the AS/RS until needed for further picking.
The finished mixed pallets are either sent directly to ship-
ping or sent to the AS/RS for temporary storage until the
truck assigned to that order is ready to be loaded. The abil-
ity to store completed orders before shipping means that
products for those orders can be picked in advance. This
allows for more flexibility in balancing the picking work-
load throughout the facility’s single picking shift. When the
loads are ready to ship, these pallets are retrieved easily
from the AS/RS in sequence for ordered loading. Products
can also be sent from the AS/RS to the old block warehouse,
which has 4,000 storage positions for overflow needs.
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who know we deliver more than your products. We deliver your promises. Think of it more as
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