Sweeper Sorter Offers Cost-effective Distribution Solution

After relocating to a larger facility with sufficient space to handle current throughput and future growth, a mid-size distributor set out to conquer a new challenge: improve the efficiency of its fulfillment processes.

The legacy retail and direct-to-consumer fulfillment operations ran rife with inefficiencies. Manual sortation of small, hard-to-sort items meant several touchpoints before distributing products to multiple locations, risking inaccurate picks and shipping errors. The labor-intensive processes required excessive travel time per order and risked counterproductive levels of congestion in pick aisles if order volumes continued to grow at anticipated levels.

Discover how Honeywell Intelligrated improved system-wide efficiencies for all internal fulfillment processes.

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