Sortation System

Sortation lets high-volume warehouses batch pick and then separate orders, or sort packed parcels by carrier and service quickly. It is a large fixed investment, so it fits sites with steady high volume.

Do I need a sortation system in my warehouse?

Usually only at high and steady volume, where manually sorting picks or parcels becomes a bottleneck. Smaller operations often get similar benefits from put walls or carrier-specific staging areas.

• Conveyor SystemPowered or gravity-driven belts and rollers that move totes, cartons, or parcels between areas of a warehouse, such as from picking to packing to shipping.
• Batch PickingA picking method where one picker collects items for several orders in a single trip, then items are sorted into individual orders.
• Put-to-LightA system of lights on a wall or rack of cubbies, each assigned to an order, that shows a worker where to place each scanned item when sorting batch-picked units into orders.
• ThroughputThe amount of work a warehouse, process, or machine completes in a period of time, such as orders shipped per day or units picked per hour.