Van Rooijen uses Pick by Weight and saves manpower

Imagine this: Van Rooijen picks an order for their customer Kraft Heinz. Kraft Heinz products are stored in Van Rooijen's warehouse, ready to be shipped to the end customer. An order is placed for 10 boxes of tomato ketchup, 10 boxes of tomato sauce and 10 boxes of tomato paste.

Old situation
An employee logs in to his hand terminal and drives his order pick truck to the appropriate pick box, scans the item there and picks the quantity displayed on his screen. When the entire order is complete, he moves the pick pallet to a check box and starts the next order. Someone else, meanwhile, checks the pick pallet. What turns out, there is unfortunately one box of tomato paste under-picked. The checker calls the picker in and asks him to go get an extra box from the pick box. This check and the extra action cost time and money.

New situation
In the new situation with mobile weighing technology, the weighing system knows the weight of each box of a product. The order picker only has to scan the product ID and the put boxes on the pallet; the weighing system knows when there are enough. This prevents errors and extra checks, thus saving time, money and a satisfied customer. And as Van Rooijen says: "We only have one person doing end checks of the orders now, where in the past we would have four."