Pick rate doubled
June 1st 2009 Cambridge University
Press (Cambridge), the
oldest printer and
publisher in the world,
has doubled its pick rate
in its UK warehouse with
the help of RedPrairie.
Cambridge implemented
RedPrairie's Warehouse
Management system and
integrated it into a trolley
designed by
Loopthinking, and
rationalising the
warehouse layout, pick,
check and pack are now
one process, and the line
rate (orders picked per
person per hour) has
increased from 70 to an
average of 138, with
peaks of 180.
Ian Farnell,
warehousing operations
consultant, Cambridge
University Press, said,
"Productivity has been
improved, capacity is far
greater, and we are
enjoying a 99.99 per cent
accuracy rate. We now
have high levels of
management control and
information, and as a
company we are
environmentally friendly,
as our objective of
becoming a paperless
operation has been
achieved."
While implementing
the new Warehouse
Management solution,
Cambridge embarked on
a project to re-organise
the warehouse layout to
further improve
efficiency. In the past 78
trolleys were staged
throughout the process,
this has gone down to 13. More articles from RedPrairie Ltd: | 
