What equipment is needed for B2C picking? | RAJA

If you are looking for the ideal equipment to optimise picking in your B2C warehouse, you have come to the right place: use this guide as a checklist to choose the equipment that will enable you to increase the performance of your operators, while ensuring that they remain safe.

CONTENTS

1. The specificities of B2C picking to be taken into account
2. What equipment is needed to organise B2C storage?
3. What equipment should be used to facilitate B2C handling by its operators?

1. Les spécificités du picking B2C à prendre en compte

Dans un entrepôt B2C, le picking est bien différent d’en B2B.

Les commandes sont plus petites, plus complexes également, avec des produits divers et variés, qui peuvent fluctuer selon les saisonnalités.

Au vu de la taille des commandes B2C, les préparateurs ne sont pas forcément équipés de machines d’aide à la manutention, alors même que les chemins de picking peuvent être plus longs à travers les rayonnages.

Alors comment leur faciliter la tâche ? En réfléchissant bien au matériel avec lequel équiper son entrepôt.

2. Quel matériel pour bien organiser son stockage B2C ?

Tout d’abord, on ne peut optimiser son picking en entrepôt B2C sans optimiser le stockage de ses produits.

Rayonnages, racks, bacs, caisses, étiquetage… Découvrez ici tout ce dont vous aurez besoin pour ce faire.

Quels rayonnages sélectionner pour un entrepôt B2C ?

Pour véritablement simplifier les shelving

• Accessible at human size, if really necessary by equipping them withladders to access the highest racks (the INRS advises against the use of ladders if possible in order to avoid falls) or forklift trucks for large high bay warehouses;
• Versatile, to adapt your stock organisation to the possible seasonal nature of your products;
• Robust, to adapt to the maximum load of products that they will accommodate.

if you haven’t already consulted our guide to selecting shelving, don’t hesitate to do so now. cta id=’ec63ec6d-215d-49da-bfac-e2e566211c47′] Don’t forget that legislation obliges warehouses of a certain height and weight to secure their shelving as much as possible. So think about

• Anchor your shelving and high racks in the concrete floor;
• Install feet and reinforcing braces on them to increase their stability.

the other element that will optimise the picking performance of your operators will be the way in which you arrange the items in your shelving. Your key material for this will be

• Folding bins, which allow you to modulate your stock according to the season;
• Crates with horizontal or lateralopening, which facilitate access to the products inside;
• Spouted bins, for easy storage of bulk products.

for each of these elements, choose different colours for each type of product: this is the key to helping your operators find their way around the logistics warehouse, and thus make their flows more fluid.

What equipment should you use to label your B2C racks?

Your objective, when optimising your B2C picking, is to save your pickers time, by clearly indicating to them where they can pick up and put down the products in their orders. Therefore, think about organising the labelling of your racks, shelves or bins properly. This is the key, to simplify life for the logistic manager as well as for the operators

• Labels that can be updated quickly, thanks to an adhesive or magnetic system;
• Identification panels that guide pickers through the warehouse, clarifying what is available on the shelves at a glance.

there is nothing like it to facilitate picking operations and significantly optimise performance.

3. What equipment should be used to facilitate B2C handling by operators?

Although most B2C warehouse operators are not motorised, to optimise their picking, they still need to be equipped with the right handling equipmentTrolleysthe equipment on which they will place the items to take them to the order picking area must be modular and multi-purpose, to enable them to arrange the diversity of assets in the stock. If necessary, think about choosing protective gloves for your operators. cta id=’fcf483ef-e0ff-4944-b846-615b338b7699′] Facilitating the handling and picking of operators also depends on guiding the pickers in their movements. To do this, two pieces of equipment are essential

• Clearly visiblefloor markings that indicate the direction of flow in the warehouse;
• Safety mirrorssafety mirrors, which optimise the visibility of the pickers.

and since safety is the key to optimised picking, don’t forget to have protective barriers and straps on supports in the key areas of your warehouse. These elements will prevent your operators from colliding with the shelving or racks, and will significantly reduce the risk of accidents. Equipment that complies with the standards, that ensures the safety of operators and facilitates their access to and movement of items: this is the key to a B2C warehouse with an optimised layout for the picking phase. cta id=’07c08b6b-77c4-49fb-a033-5d6cf25435b9′]