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Logistics Week Looks at Pick to Light
Manufacturing journalist TR Cutler reviewed Pick to Light technologies for the current issue of Logistics Week. In the feature article Cutler explores how Charlotte Russe operates over 500 stores throughout 45 states and Puerto Rico. Charlotte Russe stores deliver style in clothing and accessories, providing an exciting, fashionable assortment of merchandise that compliments virtually every facet of their customers' lifestyle. Founded in 1975, their stores provide fashion and lifestyle needs of young, fashion-conscious women in their teens and early twenties, offering trend right apparel and accessories at value prices. In addition to a wide selection of apparel, Charlotte Russe also offers a full range of accessories and footwear, helping customers to easily compliment their apparel selections.
To meet the demands of their growing supply chain, Charlotte Russe selected the Warehouse Management for iSeries solution from Manhattan Associates an optimized Charlotte Russe's receiving, inventory, planning and replenishment processes to efficiently support their retail store growth. Charlotte Russe's Ontario distribution center also installed a Pack-to-Light solution from Lightning Pick Technologies (www.lightningpick.com.)
"Our expansion strategy challenged us to support our news stores and meet the rising replenishment order volumes. Lightning Pick Technologies' Pack-to-Light solution immediately helped us push merchandise out to our stores faster, and get it in front of customers where it belongs," noted Chris Monier, VP of Distribution and Logistics. Monier went on to say, "The intuitive, visual sortation approach also made training new employees exceptionally simple. Within a few hours we can have new operators actively using the Pack-to-Light system to quickly break down full cases of product into individual store boxes."
Sometimes called a Put-to-Light or Put-to-Store system, Pack-to-Light was ideal for Charlotte's flow-through retail store replenishment approach. The Pack-to-Light process is simple and effective. Manhattan's WM conveys full cases of inventory to the correct pack area, where operators use the fully integrated Lightning Pick system to break them down to less-than-case-quantities for individual retail stores. The operators scan the full case of product with a cordless RF unit. Next, light modules illuminate at store boxes requiring that item, and direct the quantity needed for each. Different colored LEDs (red and green) direct operators to store positions/boxes above or below the track of light modules. The operator can quickly and accurately ‘put' (or ‘pack') the items to that store box, and then extinguish the light to confirm that the sortation was completed. The process repeats until the full case is rapidly emptied, and then another is conveyed to the pack area.
Today, Charlotte Russe maintains an impressive sortation rate regardless of order demand. Throughput for the whole Pack-to-Light system (all six zones) averages 5000 units per hour. During peak season the company processes 9500 units per hour through Lightning Pick, while maintaining a 99% accuracy rate. The solution is intuitive…a visual sortation approach makes new employee training exceptionally simple, while the Pack-to-Light approach has increased the speed and quality of Charlotte's order processing for reliable store replenishment.
About Lightning Pick For over 25 years and across 500 installations worldwide, Lightning Pick Technologies has delivered advanced order picking technologies on time, on budget, every time. Lightning Pick has best-in-class applications for Pick to Light, Put to Light, Pack to Light (Put to Store) Voice and RF systems support lean supply chain processes from manufacturing through order fulfillment. As a result, Lightning Pick clients improve their level of service, achieve superior order quality, and advance their positions in the market.
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Joe Pelej
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Professional Marketing Firm for the Manufacturing Community. Manufacturing Journalist or Contributing Journalist for many manufacturing magazines and journals. Founder of the Media Consortium and media blitz.
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Run Business Smoothly with Store Management and Pick and Pack Services
Efficient stock management and pick and pack services are the two things all exporters need. These two functions secure a steady and hassle-free sailing. If you are a manufacturer and maintain a stock of products, you will need an accurate stock management system in place.
You can save money and time; you can avoid waste and optimize all the business operations once a good stock management system is there. Let's see how an automated inventory management system helps to run a business smoothly.
When you receive an order, you can simply check the stock management software to confirm whether you can deliver the product on time, how much quantity is available in the stock and many such information can be fetched with just few mouse clicks and keyboard strokes.
While placing a procurement order, you can consult the stock management system to see if any raw material should be purchased, if there is any urgent requirement etc.
Many efficient inventory management solutions will allow you to set alarms so that when the amount of a material reaches a certain level, it generates an alert so that the manager can understand which product should be purchased immediately.
There are stock management systems that will allow you generate purchase order, invoice etc. automatically. Web based inventory management systems are extremely helpful when you have product or raw material stores at various locations. Both retail stores and factories with huge inventory of raw materials and finished products should have customized stock management program.
To make things easier, you can also go for pick and pack services in your country. Pick and pack services collect orders from your place or an inventory and delivers it to the end user. The end user can be a customer, a business, a factory, a manufacturing house or any other business and non-business entity.
Business with branches and inventories at various locations and make use of the pick and pack services. Instead of maintaining own transportation system, they can simply hire a pick and packer and get the products delivered at the destination without any hassles.
Professional pick and pack services take special care of fragile products or hazardous materials. Some businesses use specific types of products that require special care during storage and transportation. For example, if you are transporting glass-made products, special shock proofing materials should be used to wrap the products so that the items do not get damaged on the way. You should ask the pick and packer if they are able to handle such products or not.
When you need to transport finished products overseas, pick and pack services can be of immense help. If you are doing business with overseas companies or you have a wide offshore customer base, you can simply hire a pick and pack service provider and export the products. You need to send them all the details, such as amount of products to be delivered, type of products to be delivered, where to deliver the products etc. and they will take care of everything. However, you may need to take care of the export duty and other financial and legal obligations separately.
A perfect store management and a professional pick and pack service can actually help you run your business smoothly. Go for it!
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Micel Anderson who is a professional author writes articles on stock management and pick and pack services . For more information he suggest to visit http://www.tfstore.co.uk/
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