Numina Group is a leading warehouse automation company, providing ongoing customer service and support to realize maximum cost savings through automated technologies. We are often called upon by past or existing clients to implement further automation to additional warehouses or distribution centers. The acquisition and merger of additional distribution operations warranted further review of operations for an existing client, three years after streamlining operations of their current 100,000 square foot facility.
Warehouse Design for Maximum Automation The acquisition consisted of a 70,000 square foot facility located on the West coast, miles away from their Midwest operation. Numina provided additional warehouse design and automation services to automate distribution operations of the new facility. Numina Group provided warehouse design studies of the new facility to mirror the company’s pick, pack and ship functions utilized in their current Midwest facility. Warehouse Execution and Control Numina’s Tier One Warehouse Execution and Control (WES-WCS) system integrates pick, pack and ship processes with real time control. Real-Time Distribution, RDS™, provides added functionality beyond traditional warehouse control systems. RDS™ fully integrates with existing warehouse management systems such as SAP and virtually any other existing WMS system. By integrating RDS with order fulfillment processes, Numina is able to balance the workload across the various order fulfillment processes. Our sophisticated WES-WCS processes the entire mix of order types including LTL shipments, split-case orders and web-based orders. RDS is a true Tier One WES-WCS which includes:
Numina Group is an experienced warehouse automation company, providing Tier One Warehouse Execution and Control Systems (WES-WCS) to distribution centers across North America. Contact us today to learn more about our warehouse design and optimization services for the latest in warehouse automation technology.
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Warehouse Control and Execution (WCS-WES) systems offer many benefits to distribution centers and order fulfillment processes in many industries. Warehouse automation companies that offer warehouse design, control and execution software combined with automation technologies provide the greatest value to clients seeking maximum cost savings.
Numina Group Provides Cost Saving Warehouse Automation Solutions Numina Group has over thirty years of experience in designing and implementing warehouse automation solutions to distribution centers across North America. Our Real-Time Distribution warehouse control and execution system delivers real-time control to automated technologies integrated with your existing order management system. Real-Time Distribution, RDS™, easily integrates with any existing warehouse management system (WMS) or enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Numina provides automation solutions to order fulfillment and distribution processes in many industries including food and beverage, healthcare, third-party logistics (3PL), consumer goods and many others. Our clients typically enjoy the following benefits:
Numina Group consists of a skilled engineering and design team with experience in streamlining processes with advanced technologies. Warehouse Automation Technologies As part of a thorough process analysis and design of your distribution process, Numina provides a detailed blueprint of recommended automated improvements detailing cost savings with expected return on investment (ROI). We conduct value stream mapping exercises to show you where you will save the most money and eliminate bottlenecks in your system. Real-time control is critical to obtain maximum cost savings resulting in increased profitability. Sophisticated warehouse control software is the key component which drives advanced automation technologies. RDS™ consists of a family of modules which is designed to grow with your business. Automation modules and technologies include:
Each module is designed to improve throughput, accuracy and profitability. Our Voice Picking System provides hands free scanning with easy to understand voice commands and requires minimal operator training. Print and Apply solutions automatically print and affix the proper label to cartons including packing sheets and shipping documents. Numina’s Print and Apply systems provide quick return on investment, typically within one year of implementation. Numina Group offers total warehouse automation solutions from design through implementation with ongoing customer support. We provide reliable warehouse control software which drives automated technologies with real-time control. Contact us today to learn more about our automated warehouse technologies. The acquisition and merger of a medical supply manufacturer required a new warehouse distribution center to be constructed and designed with streamlined warehouse automation. The Numina Group is a recognized leader in warehouse design and implementation of automated technologies and was more than happy to help accommodate this returning client with automated warehouse solutions.
Numina provided a thorough and detailed new warehouse design for the original client project which entailed supporting over 2,000 SKUs in a temperature-controlled environment, requiring refrigeration and ambient temperature control. This distribution center had to meet high volume production requirements consisting of processing 33 million bottles of product annually, with distribution to all 50 states through five different supply chain channels. Warehouse Designed for Streamlined Automation The Numina Group provided a warehouse design which encompassed converting their current 280,000 square foot facility into a new 100,000 square foot facility, with automated technologies and reduced labor touches. Resizing the operation was the biggest challenge for Numina who embraced the opportunity to utilize the entire cube of the 100,000 square foot facility. Numina’s skilled warehouse design engineers conducted several analytical studies based on combined order volumes with five-year projections. We recommended and developed a multi-level pick module design utilizing the optimum picking technology for maximum automation. Our recommendations provided the ROI the executive management team was looking for while meeting order fulfillment requirements. Numina provided automated warehouse solutions which resulted in a reduction of pick labor expense by at least 50 percent with an increase in productivity doubling from 110 lines per hour (LPH) to 222 LPH. Numina offers Warehouse Control and Execution System solutions with real-time control of automated technologies including voice picking technology, pick to light systems, automated conveyor systems, print and apply labeling and additional automated technologies for maximum warehouse automation. Our warehouse control system easily integrates with any warehouse management system (WMS) or enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Numina Group provides comprehensive warehouse design services including optimized path flow streamlined for maximum automation. Our warehouse design engineers are experienced with in-depth expertise of warehouse automated technologies. Contact us today to learn more about our warehouse design and automation solutions. Whether your order fulfillment operation is B to B or B to C, automating your order processes reaps great rewards in cost reduction while improving profitability. The boost in E-commerce presents new opportunities, along with new challenges, for 3PL companies and distributors. Tedious manual labor tasks produce bottlenecks in your system, often in the area of packing, printing and applying labels or sorting. Warehouse control systems alleviate bottlenecks with streamlined, real time execution of automation technologies.
Numina Provides Automated Warehouse Solutions The Numina Group is an experienced warehouse automation company, providing automated warehouse technologies which are proven to reduce costs and increase profit. Implementing automated warehouse solutions provides several benefits which include:
Numina Group offers automated warehouse systems which improve accuracy, productivity and profitability. Automating printing and label application or insertion of packing lists, compliance labels and shipping labels significantly reduces labor expenses with increasing throughput and accuracy. X-Press PAL™ Print and Apply labeling offers customized settings for auto applying documents and labels, including:
Numina Group offers decades of industry expertise in warehouse automation, employing skilled technicians and engineers with experience installing warehouse control systems across North America. Numina Group offers vast experience and expertise in designing warehouse distribution processes with real time control. We perform a detailed process design study with recommendations on the automation technologies which offer the most streamlined process for maximum cost savings. Numina Group offers proven automated warehouse solutions with real time execution and control. Our warehouse control system is flexible and scalable, designed to grow with your business. Contact us today to speak with an engineer to learn how you can automate your order fulfillment operation for higher throughput and profitability. When evaluating warehouse control systems, be sure to check out Real-Time Distribution (RDS™) from The Numina Group. Advantages of Numina’s RDS™ Warehouse Execution and Control System, WES-WCS, include extended functionality beyond comparable systems. The flexibility of RDS allows implementation of components integral to your order fulfillment process. Warehouse automation modules include voice picking systems, automatic print and apply labeling, automated conveyors, sorting and inline scanning for weight and dimension verification.
Automate your entire retail order fulfillment process or implement Numina’s selected modules in one specialty fulfillment process as a test run to experience the advantages of Numina’s warehouse control system. Once you see the benefits, you’ll implement streamlined automation throughout your entire warehouse or distribution center. Warehouse Automation Modules Extend Functionality and Flexibility Retail distribution centers that implement warehouse automation modules based on detailed process design studies reap massive rewards in productivity and profitability. Numina provides thorough analysis and detailed, flowcharted design with recommended automation modules and technologies which provide maximum throughput and efficiency. Automated warehouse solutions include: Voice Picking Module – an integral component of realizing maximum return on investment, voice picking improves accuracy to 99.99% while drastically reducing labor costs. Voice picking technology may be deployed to streamline picking, inspection or replenishment applications, or may be combined with additional options such as wave pick optimization and batch picking for maximum productivity. Numina’s Voice Picking System manages the entire order picking process across pick zones. Voice picking typically improves efficiency of employees by at least 30% with hands-free scanning and no operator voice training required. Employees are directed through an optimized path for streamlined picking by an easy to understand, audible voice giving direction and the hands-free headset scanning and confirming picks. Numina Group is a leader among warehouse automation companies, providing superior voice picking technology which is proven to improve accuracy while reducing labor costs. Contact us today to learn more about our warehouse execution and control system, including our superior voice picking system. A leading retail order fulfillment company that processed orders for more than 250 retail stores recently replaced their paper picking process with voice picking technology, increasing productivity by an average of 35 percent. In addition to productivity gains, the new voice picking system provided an accuracy level of 99.96% to this company which has more than one million active SKUs operating in a 350,000 square foot facility.
Moving from a paper-based picking system to a modern voice picking system seemed like a monumental task, but with the help of an experienced warehouse automation company, they implemented the new automated warehouse technology with great success. Numina Provides Warehouse Automation Solutions The Numina Group was chosen to implement warehouse automation technology for this retail fulfillment giant, which was utilizing a manual system that was primarily paper based for all picking and replenishment functions. Numina Group was brought in to analyze the operation and provide a detailed design study with automation recommendations. The current operation consisted of pickers following paper instructions and individually picking each item using price label sheets across four standard pick zones. Picks ranged from 30 items to 300 per store, all picked into totes. Once manual picking was complete, a conveyor sorted and transported the totes to the staging area to prepare for shipping. Employees picked items for an average of 63 retail stores per day. Some stores had shipping requirements of 35-40 totes per day while other larger stores required up to 175 totes per day. This paper picking process was very labor intensive and was draining resources and profits. Numina Performs Warehouse Design Studies Numina Group began with a detailed process design study to evaluate the best automation technologies that would provide the most streamlined and cost-efficient solution with maximum return on investment. Numina partnered with company personnel including operations team members and executives to analyze the current order fulfillment process, then defined the leanest approach in a detailed flow chart showing projected return on investment. Multi-modal voice picking technology with hands free barcode scanning was chosen as the warehouse automation technology which would provide the highest and fastest return on investment (ROI). Numina’s study showed that voice picking technology could provide a complete ROI within one year. Implementation of Numina’s voice picking system has exceeded expectations with improvements in productivity of 35% and accuracy to 99.96%, which will provide an even faster ROI. For warehouse automation solutions, be sure to talk with the automation specialists at Numina Group. We provide comprehensive warehouse automation services from defining and designing warehouse systems to implementing Tier One Warehouse Execution and Control systems. Contact us today to learn how you can increase productivity and profitability. It takes more than automated order entry and warehouse management software to truly deliver a fully automated warehouse where each department is working together and meeting production requirements with real-time data. Incorporating a warehouse execution and control system into your distribution process reaps big rewards with increased productivity and profitability. Numina Group Offers Real-Time Warehouse Control The Numina Group offers real-time warehouse control with powerful warehouse software and automated technologies working together to streamline pick, pack and ship functions. Our Warehouse Execution and Control System (WES-WCS), Real-Time Distribution, RDS™, provides valuable benefits to our customers resulting in increased performance and profits. RDS is a family of flexible modules which integrates fully with your existing warehouse management system (WMS) or enterprise resource planning system (ERP) to deliver automation solutions which provide maximum cost saving efficiency and increase in profits. RDS is powerful warehouse software which drives the following automation solutions: Scan-Weigh-Dimension – Inline scanning which automatically verifies weight and dimension also provides vision inspection and sorting functions. Our inline DIM measurement system closes the loop in pack and ship operations using the actual weight and dimensions to validate content of the order and ensure the lowest parcel shipping costs. One-Step and One-Step-Plus™ - Automatic printing and applying of shipping labels and documents drastically improves labeling operations saving manual labor expenses while increasing accuracy. One-Step-Plus maintains compliance with pharmaceutical and medical device distribution processes which require labeling on the outside the carton. RDS Voice™ - Voice Picking Technology greatly improves throughput and accuracy by directing operators with the most optimized SKU path for pick and put processes. Hands-free scanning drastically improves productivity of warehouse personnel with voice direction and automatic scanning. Regardless of your order fulfillment operation, the need to increase throughput and accuracy while reducing manual labor costs has never been greater. Numina Group is recognized as a leading warehouse automation company, providing comprehensive services to streamline pick, pack and ship functions for high profitability. Contact us today to speak with an engineer and learn how we partner with our customers to deliver total automated warehouse solutions. With the boost in Ecommerce there is new opportunity for distributors and 3PL companies to add automation technologies that increase throughput while lowering labor costs. There are several benefits of automation in B to B and B to C order fulfillment operations. Some valuable benefits offered by warehouse automation include:
Numina Group Provides Warehouse Automation Solutions Numina Group provides warehouse automation solutions that improve productivity, accuracy and profitability. By automating the printing and insertion or application of packing sheets and labels you can significantly reduce manual labor costs while improving accuracy and throughput. Numina’s print and apply labeling system offers several choices for automatic application of labels and documents. Print and apply labeling is part of Numina’s total warehouse execution system which provides automatic application of:
Numina Group offers decades of experience in warehouse design and implementation of automated technologies, improving distribution processes across North America. Our skilled design engineers evaluate the entire warehouse distribution process to identify areas for improvement. Automating a packing line can consist of as little as 20 feet of automated conveyor systems. Integrating the packing and shipping processes with automated technologies allows for efficient use of motor driven roller, (MDR) equipment which provides low noise and energy efficient operation. Numina Group provides warehouse automation solutions with warehouse execution and control systems driven by powerful warehouse software. Contact us today to learn more about our automated solutions which save time, money and drastically increase profitability. Pick, pack and ship procedures are the three main components of Ecommerce order fulfillment. The last 100’ of a distribution center, however, is often the bottleneck of the operation as the pack and ship procedures can be time consuming and labor intensive with multiple touches and handling processes. Warehouse automation is the key to improving these processes without increasing labor costs.
Warehouse Control and Execution Systems provide a drastic increase in product processing while also providing a significant reduction in labor expenses. If you want to meet the demands of Ecommerce order fulfillment and poise your business for growth, you need to improve the pack and ship functions with high accuracy and efficient product labeling and sorting. Replacing outdated processes with efficient, lean automation technologies provides rapid return on investment (ROI) while boosting order fulfillment throughput rates. Warehouse Control Systems Solve Labor Shortage Problems It is proving difficult for businesses to continue to meet the increasing demand for same day shipments with the current labor shortage. It is costlier than just a year ago to fill manual labor positions with increasing wages for even entry-level positions required to attract and retain employees. Relying on manual labor for pack and ship operations can prove especially difficult during peak seasons and times of growth. Numina’s Warehouse Control System replaces the tedious tasks of manual labor with dramatic increases in productivity, resulting in immediate return on investment (ROI) while poised for growth. Real-Time Distribution, RDS™, is a flexible family of modules designed to grow with your business. Powerful warehouse control software drives automated technologies that replace the many tedious tasks holding up pack and ship operations including:
This is just a small sample of the tedious tasks that Numina’s warehouse control and execution system performs with high accuracy and increased throughput. Our X-Press PAL™ print and apply labeling system provides automation with accuracy and speed at a rate of 25 cartons per minute. Incorporate RDS Voice™ for increased efficiency in pick and put applications with 99.99% accuracy. The Numina Group is recognized as a leading warehouse automation company, providing comprehensive services including warehouse design and implementation of automated technologies. Contact us today to learn more about our warehouse control and execution systems. |
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