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Put-to-Light Systems
Batch pick and order sortation: faster, more accurate
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"What's the difference between pick-to-light and put-to-light? Put-to-light reverses the pick-to-light method. In a put-to-light system, rather than pick items as directed by light signals, workers start with a group of batch-picked products and use light signals to sort them into the correct orders. Just contact us with your questions about automated systems!"
Stephen, Employee-Owner
Systems Integration Group
Does your operation have a large SKU base?
How can you speed order sortation?
Put-to-light systems optimize batch picking and high-speed sortation functions because they takes what works in pick-to-light operations and uses it to ensure faster, more accurate order sortation. You can scan an item, and the correct locations illuminate. When an order is complete, a signal lights up on the other side to let packers know the order is ready to pack and ship. The system offers efficiency in space, time and labor to help your operation flow more quickly.
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Suggested industries
- Pharmaceutical
- Apparel & Accessories
- Music, Book & Media Publishing/Distribution
- Electronics
- Cosmetics & Beauty Products
- Vitamins & Nutraceuticals
Put-to-light is a space-efficient, economical method for fast, accurate, high-quality order sortation for operations with large SKU counts. It offers major gains in operational efficiency, additional capacity to handle growth within existing warehouse infrastructures and increased visibility into order progress and productivity rates.
Put-to-light applications
- eCommerce Order Fulfillment
- Returns Processing
- Secondary Batch Pick Sortation
- Secondary Wave Pick Sortation
- Retail Store Replenishment Order Fulfillment
- Putaway
- Replenishment
- Kitting Processes
- Order Consolidation
Put-to-Light Advantages
Simplicity is the key contributor to a Put to Light system's success. Light-directed sortation is visual, intuitive and convenient to use. Operators can be trained in a matter of hours, vs. the days often required by other automation methods. The Put concept offers a high performance alternative to more complex and expensive automated approaches, and is also often more agile responding to daily volume changes than these other technologies.