Benefits
Some of the tangible and measurable benefits of LED displays integrated within
a warehouse or manufacturing environment are:
- Improved coordination of orders, parts, priorities and flow.
- Improved inventory accuracy by insuring proper items are picked.
- Visible tracking of order status, changes, lots and priorities.
- Improved throughput, work flow and reduction of WIP.
- Improved customer service by communicating order needs and dock requirements.
- Improved labor resourcing by implementing a smoother flow process.
- Prioritizing of orders quickly and visibly for all employees.
- Meet delivery schedule and financial objectives.
- Link material flow with information flow.
- Visibly display any performance measurement information.
- No reliance on white boards, print outs, clip boards or word of mouth.
Applications
LED Solutions for Material Handling
By integrating LED displays into a real-time warehouse management system anyone
can walk into a warehouse environment and visually see order status, priorities,
and many other relevant productivity measurements. Improvements in order fulfillment
accuracy and material flow efficiencies can be obtained. Five critical areas
where LED displays can be used are inventory management, storage, receiving,
picking and shipping.
Outside of shipping, AlphaEclipse 3500 displays can be used to provide concise
driver information such as queuing information, priorities, pickup times, departure
times, wait times, truck directions and any other specific dock door status.
Information is derived from either the dispatcher or the WMS program based on
scheduling, dock availability and load priorities for each facility. This would
replace the use of a simple dock number or flashing light.
Once the unloading process starts, the lift truck drivers need to know what
is required to come off of the trucks, where they need to be stored and the
priority of the load. Displays placed over each receiving door on the inside
can provide direction at a glance as to where the pallet or load must go whether
it is a staging area, another dock for reloading, or a specific aisle or storage
area. Again this data can be driven manually by the dock manager or via an automated
process from the WMS.