Huge increases in picking efficiency
August 1st 2004

To help support continued growth Carphone Warehouse has installed six Diamond Phoenix horizontal carousels at its national logistics centre in Wednesbury to handle picking of all product accessories.

Carphone Warehouses head of warehouse operations Shaun Tymon says efficiency rates have rocketed: We have gone from 50 lines per hour per operator to more than 200 lines per hour, including scan verification of pick and data capture. And we have saved an absolute mountain of space.

Instead of single order picking, one store at a time, we are picking 12 stores at a time. This means there is a significant reduction in the number of times we visit a specific storage location, which in turn increases picking efficiencies massively.

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