Efficient order picking
= satisfied customers

Individual products, high quality and short delivery times – our customers´ demands are growing steadily – which makes it all the more important for a company to optimise its stockkeeping as part of the production chain.
Paperless picking helps to simplify warehouse work.

Particularly against the backdrop of e-Commerce with its short delivery times and specific orders, many warehouses cannot be fully automated. Using human labour is often more efficient and flexible.
In production as well, ensuring the quick and reliable supply of material is becoming increasingly important due to the wide variety of product variations.

Where people are at work, however, mistakes are made – incorrect pickings, counting errors, mix-ups or inventory corrections which are not carried out. The costs incurred by incorrect delivery, costly verification, missing or wrong parts in the production process should not be underestimated.
Paperless picking helps to avoid errors!

The technical implementation of paperless picking can be done in a number of ways, depending on the requirements of the company. Paperless picking can be implemented, for example, as a pick to ligth system (also known as pick-by-light or pick2light) or as a put to light system which offers many advantages over picking with picking lists.

Orders are picked in a variety of ways. A general distinction is made between
> man-to-goods picking: Here, the goods are stored statically in the warehouse, i.e., the employee collects the goods in the warehouse.
> Goods-to-person picking:  The goods are provided dynamically, i.e., the goods are transported from the storage location to the employee at a fixed workstation.

The most suitable manual picking method depends on the size of the warehouse, the order quantity, the type of item, and the warehouse strategy.

Paperless picking with pick to light (pick2light) is a manual picking method for man-to-goods picking and is often used in combination with the goods-to-man principle. In this case, the pick-to-light system guides the employee directly to the picking station.

Paperless picking solutions by KBS support companies in optimising their processes and in minimising error rates, which is reflected in improved efficiency. As all companies are unique, KBS offers customised solutions to suit all kinds of requirements and product ranges worldwide: made to measure, reliable and flexible.