Auto order picking

Symbion, one of Australia's leading pharmaceutical wholesalers, is progressively implementing automation to reduce operating costs, improve fulfilment quality and shorten order response times.

This includes a goods-to-man picking system from SSI Schaefer at its distribution centre in Perth. The system consists of six Schaefer Carousel Systems (SCS) serving two high productivity pick-to-tote workstations. As orders are released into the system for picking, order totes are routed via conveyor to the two goods-to-man pickstations which each handle seven orders at a time.

The SKUs required to fulfil the orders are automatically retrieved from the carousels and delivered to the pickstations as required. Software by SSI Schaefer manages the entire goods-to-man picking system.