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Automated Dimensioning Delivers Cost Effective Solutions
To make the best use of your storage in the warehouse, on trucks, trains, or planes, you should consider automated dimensioning. These are reliable systems that deliver the performance you need to save both time and money.
For just over a decade, automating the measurement of length, width, and height of individual items and cases to determine volumes precisely has been the answer to age-old woes in managing warehouse storage and shipping efficiency. Now, systems that dimension, but also weigh, label, and/or scan its bar code at the same time – are increasingly more a part of today's warehouse or distribution center.
DCs planning a major WMS (warehouse management system) installation, are foreseeing the need and including automated cubing and weighing as part of the standard bid process.
"Space is money", is now the mantra of both major shipping carriers as well as warehouse managers. With a dimensioning system, one can pack everything from a single outbound box up to the entire warehouse far more efficiently and easily. Dimensioning systems help optimize storage density on the warehouse's receiving side. They assist in making more accurate storage slot assignments, and add productivity to order picking and packing. On the shipping side, these systems produce cost savings in trailer load planning and freight manifesting and auditing. Bulky and precious cargo can be weighed and their volume calculated to ensure correct rates calculation and optimize payloads. Information is automatically recorded for each transaction and with throughput rates of up to 4000 parcels per hour.
Manually taking measurements, then making the volume calculations so that items and cases can be stored or shipped in the least possible volume is time consuming. It also comes with the potential of a higher rate of error.
Call the professionals at ScanScale.com now to learn how a state-of-the-art automated dimensioning system would benefit your warehouse or distribution center. Contact us now.
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