Most warehouses measure orders shipped, labor hours, and order accuracy. There is another metric worth watching: how many times is each order touched before it leaves the building?
Every extra touch adds cost
An order may be picked into a tote, moved to temporary staging, sorted into an order location, checked again, moved to packing, and reworked after an exception.
- Every extra touch adds time
- Every handoff creates another queue
- Every move creates another opportunity for error
- Every rework consumes capacity needed by normal orders
The same headcount does not guarantee the same output
Two warehouses with the same number of employees can have very different output. One may be moving orders forward. The other may be repeatedly re-handling them.
Make the order flow clearer
Scan-guided order consolidation and an automated put wall can clarify the handoff: pick the batch, identify the item, direct it to the correct order location, and move the completed order forward with less re-handling.
Remove unnecessary order handoffs
BDAITEC HummiSort combines scan-guided consolidation with automated put-wall sorting to help eCommerce and 3PL warehouses reduce re-handling and move completed orders smoothly toward packing and dispatch.
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