Automated Piece Picking

Stock, Pick, and Pack Orders in a Highly Automated and Cost-Effective Process

Supplying and delivering a wide variety of products at lower cost, in less space, and with a smaller labour force isn’t easy. To make it possible, you must maximise your resources and assets, and that requires automation tailored to your business operations.

Whether you’re considering dark stores, hub and spoke distribution, or cold chain logistics to support your consumer fulfilment model, Dematic Automated Piece Picking can save time, improve efficiencies, and maximise labour utilisation.

Dematic Automated Piece Picking allows businesses to manage resources efficiently and accurately by picking and packing orders in a highly automated and cost-effective process. This pre-engineered, easy-to-install system has an inventory and fulfilment accuracy of 99%. It facilitates highly efficient picking by optimising inventory selection and providing detailed instructions to operators.

What is automated piece picking?

Automated piece picking is a pre-engineered and easy to install system that helps businesses efficiently and accurately stock, pick, and pack orders. The system uses proven technology to optimise inventory selection and provide instructions to operators.

By integrating the power of intelligent automation and human expertise, automated piece picking combines automated technology and advanced software. The software allows you retain full control of your data while it provides seamless integration with other inventory management, warehouse, and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. All stores, distribution centres, and corporate offices are connected on the same platform.

Omnichannel order fulfilment impacts consumer buying habits.

Advantages of automated piece picking:

Dual-lift shuttles offer 40% more throughput than traditional single-lift designs.

What’s your challenge? Automated piece picking as a sustainable solution for your growing company.

E-commerce continues to grow exponentially, with consumers expecting both instant gratification and endless options — faster orders, free delivery, and a seamless shopping experience. Dematic supports the growth of e-commerce and helps companies combat their biggest fulfilment challenges, including: 

Demand for Rapid Delivery  

Today’s consumers have become accustomed to instant access to whatever they want whenever they want. To deliver on this, retailers are automating their fulfilment operations to maintain customer loyalty to provide same-day delivery, click and collect ordering, and one-hour fulfilment. 

Labour Shortages

Hiring, training, and retaining warehouse workers is increasingly difficult — as existing workers get older, they no can longer perform the physically challenging work and potential replacements are not eager to start. As demand continues to grow, retailers are really feeling the pinch. manual labour not only impacts fulfilment accuracy, but it also affects overall productivity. Retailers are looking to automation to overcome labour shortages and empower a more skilled labour for workforce retention.


Why Dematic automated piece picking?

Trusted, dependable, and serviceable solutions from a company with 200 years of experience.

We know you don’t have the time to retrain employees and fix mistakes. With automated piece picking, Dematic’s software-driven order fulfilment strategies provide the highly accurate, highly efficient picking that your organisation needs. There is no single point of failure and orders are picked and completed at a single workstation. This flexible design allows you to easily upgrade as business grows. Invest today and grow your business for tomorrow without interrupting current operations.

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