date:Jan 08, 2013
tionery straight from the production area to interim storage in the distribution centre's static high-bay racking system. Initially, the picked order pallets were put together on staging zones in the goods-out area. This resulted in a lot of cross traffic, evasive manoeuvres and other disruptions that had a detrimental effect on loading and waiting times for carriers and therefore impaired the throughput and efficiency of the warehouse as a whole, explains Halil Grkan Arikan, head of logistics a