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Read What the Media is Saying About
Lightning Pick.
Read more about what the industry experts are saying about Lightning Pick products, projects and customers.
Supply chain: Picking Strategies.
October 2010
Business Excellence magazine outlines the advantages of simultaneous picking strategies in light-directed order fulfillment and the evolution of it's core applications: pick-to-light, pick-to-display, and now build-to-light.
Pick-to-Light Technology: Lightening the Load
Septmeber 2010
Advancements in pick-to-light technology and a variety of new applications have prompted a growth in use and productivity.
By Sara Pearson Specter
Editor at Large
Modern Materials Handling
Pick-to-Light Proves Perfect Process for Distribution Centers.
September 2010
Charlotte Russe is a leading retailer of women’s fashion and accessories. Charlotte Russe installed the LP Pack to Light solution to meet the rising order volume demands of their growing suipply chain. Sometimes called a Put to Light or Put to Store system, the system was ideal for Charlotte Russe's flow-through retail store replenishment strategy. Working with their Manhattan Associates WM solution, the light-directed sortation system quickly packs individual store boxes by category so that once a store receives them, they can easily be to moved directly to the right department for putaway.
By Thomas R. Cutler
WTG News
Lightning Pick Selected as One of Top 100 Great Supply Chain Partners
July 2010
SupplyChainBrain.com just announced the top 100 Great Supply Chain Partners. Lightning Pick Technologies (www.lightningpick.com) was one of the recognized leaders. The special issue celebrates those companies that have been nominated by their partners as deserving recognition because the product or service has been of great value. Whether in logistics, technology or consulting, these 100 selected companies aided, advanced, and improved the supply chain management of clients.
Order Fulfillment Execution Systems Impact Productivity and Bottom- Line.
July 2010
Pick to Light is acknowledged to be the fastest operator-based picking strategy available to execute broken case quantity order fulfillment operations and is ideal for team-based approaches like zone picking. According to Jim Bast, “The LP Pick solution increases the pick rate productivity, accuracy and cost efficiency of this labor intensive operation by reducing the walk time, eliminating the reading errors and simplifying the task throughout the pick process. Lightning Pick Technologies’ flagship product LP Pick is the most flexible and powerful light-directed picking application available. With the fastest growing user community, Lightning Pick leads the Pick-to-Light industry in both new installations and in retrofitting legacy light-directed systems.”
By Thomas R. Cutler
Articlebase.com
Most Advanced Order Fulfillment Execution System.
July 2010
Finding software solutions that provide both a powerful and flexible order fulfillment execution system available is challenging. Advanced software technology that enables productivity-enhancing tools, are critical to gain a supply chain competitive edge. According to Jim Bast, Vice-President and General Manager of Lightning Pick (www.lightningpick.com), “More functionality means more control and precise optimization of critical order fulfillment operations. Through the Lightning Pick Management Console companies quickly add products and locations, change staffing and work zones, expedite hot orders, access real-time statistics on picker productivity (including on an individual level), order volumes and all system activities."
By Thomas R. Cutler
Tag44.com
Pick to Light Drives Immediate Lean Manufacturing Automation Advantages.
June 2010
The benefits of Pick-to-Light solutions cannot be overlooked as a best-of-breed, lean manufacturing, continuous process improvement, cost-saving technique. There are extensive benefits of Light-Directed Order Picking. The flexibility of Pick-to-Light technology solutions offer cable-free light module hardware; this flexibility enables the productivity of light-directed order fulfillment to virtually all popular material storage and handling media found in distribution centers and manufacturing plants.
By Thomas R. Cutler
Automation.com
The Role of Pick-to-Light Benefits in Automation.
May 2010
There are extensive benefits of Light-Directed Order Picking. According to Bernie McCabe, Manager of Lightning Pick Technologies, “Pick-to-Light is a light directed order fulfillment system.” McCabe’s firm led the cable-free light module revolution and the innovative engineering of hardware technology continues to provide extreme operational advantages. All Pick-to-Light solutions do not possess the same robust software that drives powerful and flexible order fulfillment systems.
By Thomas R. Cutler
Automation Media
Lightning Pick releases Wireless Pick to Light System
April 2010
Lightning Pick releases NW Series, the industry's first truly Wireless Pick to Light system. The new hardware uses electronic paper technology (as used in popular eBooks) to apply the benefits of light-directed picking to product locations that don't have traditional rack or shelf positions. These could include pallet locations on open floors, totes on conveyor or a wide variety of creative possibilities.
Lightning Pick Releases LP Dashboard Version 6.0
March 2010
The LP Dashboard provides real-time pick productivity data through a rich graphical software interface. The new 6.0 version's enhanced capabilities such as Web Page Display, XPS Document Display and Marquee Mode provide increased process visibility.
Pick to Light or Put to Light? What's Best for my Distribution Center?
February 2010Jim Bast, General Manager for Lightning Pck Technologies writes an article for Integrated Solutions for Retailers magazine. In the article Jim outlines some key areas distributors need to consider when evaluating Pick to Light or Put to Light systems for their order fulfillment operation.