{"id":3368,"date":"2013-07-10T16:45:16","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T21:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cisco-eagle.com\/blog\/?p=3368"},"modified":"2023-06-11T11:46:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T16:46:39","slug":"excess-walking-makes-zombies-of-order-pickers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cisco-eagle.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/10\/excess-walking-makes-zombies-of-order-pickers\/","title":{"rendered":"Excess Walking Makes &#8220;Zombies&#8221; of Order Pickers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/images.cisco-eagle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/zombie-order-picker.jpg\" alt=\"zombie order picker\" width=\"600\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Studies indicate that order pickers spend too much time walking. <strong>Distribution center employees routinely spend more than \u00a0half their day walking<\/strong>, not picking orders, packing orders, or replenishing stock. They&#8217;re going from point to point, burning man hours getting where they need to be, not working. And that&#8217;s the average &#8212; for really poorly designed operations, it&#8217;s worse.<\/p>\n<p>As they tire, workers pick slower, pick less accurately, and work more dangerously &#8212; almost a <em>zombie<\/em> like situation! Every bad thing that can happen in a warehouse operation is amplified, the more time employees spend walking.<\/p>\n<p>Check out our most recent Info-graphic, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisco-eagle.com\/vector\/779\/reduce-walking-in-order-picking-operations\">&#8220;Walking is the Walking Death of Order Picking Productivity&#8221;<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0 for more information on ways you can combat this issue.<\/p>\n<p>More information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisco-eagle.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/07\/how-to-reduce-wasted-walking-time-in-distribution-operations\/\">Ways to reduce needless walking<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisco-eagle.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/03\/when-it-comes-to-order-picking-dont-walk-the-walk\/\">When it comes to order picking, don&#8217;t walk the walk<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisco-eagle.com\/category\/3076\/gravity-flow-vs-static-shelving\">Gravity flow vs. shelving\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Studies indicate that order pickers spend too much time walking. Distribution center employees routinely spend more than \u00a0half their day walking, not picking orders, packing orders, or replenishing stock. They&#8217;re going from point to point, burning man hours getting where they need to be, not working. And that&#8217;s the average &#8212; for really poorly designed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[288],"tags":[232,65,43],"series":[],"class_list":["post-3368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-order-picking","tag-ergonomics","tag-lean-warehousing","tag-order-fulfillment"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2027-04-08 23:45:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cisco-eagle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cisco-eagle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cisco-eagle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cisco-eagle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cisco-eagle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3368"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.cisco-eagle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28052,"href":"https:\/\/www.cisco-eagle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions\/28052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cisco-eagle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cisco-eagle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cisco-eagle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3368"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cisco-eagle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=3368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}