Efficient picking of mixed pallets

Product variety and consequently lower order quantities for the single products (stock keeping units) are the crucial factors that are going to demand great flexibility from food producers in the future. Mixed pallets will be the order of the day. Therefore, order picking – picking of individual packs, layers, or stacks – must be considered in the overall concept.
Manual concepts or automatic order picking can be selected as order-picking Krones EOP systems variants. The flexibility of the selected system allows changes to be immediately implemented in the article structure, and new articles to be added in the system.

Features of manual order picking:

• Order management is organised via the warehouse management computer.
• Pick-by-voice systems or handheld terminals are provided for user guidance during picking.
• The picking result is transmitted to the system and thus documented automatically.
  

Features of automatic order picking:

• Use of conveying systems, barcode detection with camera systems
• Pack tracking
• Efficient assembly of individual components such as palletiser, depalletiser, robots, gantry systems and wrappers to form a complete line
• Software solutions with pre-calculated algorithms, in regard to the order of the packs to be picked
• Fully automatic solution with high efficiency and accuracy