In order to minimize errors during order picking, 3PL provider Scheren has equipped his Jungheinrich order picking trucks with integrated scales. The warehouse management system interrogates the scale for the net weight increase after each order line picked, and compares this actual net weight with the theoretical weight of the articles. Only if the weight corresponds, the order picker receives the next order line on his truck terminal.

ACP supplies 500 to 1,000 boxes of components per day to several well-known lorry manufacturers. In order to prevent incomplete deliveries, all components are counted by scales integrated in the stacker trucks that lift and move the boxes. Thanks to the mobile counting scales the number of complaints from customers has decreased drastically.

3M produces semi-finished products and raw materials for a variety of specialised materials. Due to the high value of the materials, accurate weighing is a requirement. 

Danone sometimes needed to stop production lines because containers with fruit preparations emptied unexpectedly. Nowadays, after each batch produced, the fruit containers are weighed on the hand pallet trucks that return them to the warehouse. This allows a higher efficiency in production planning and stock control.

Generate data on weight and volume without modifying existing warehouse processes. Read more about how DPD Poland is doing just that, optimizing their supply chain. 

Total Produce is one of Europe's largest importers of fruit and vegetables. All fruit sold by price per kilo, such as watermelons, is weighed on entry. And until recently they needed four employees to do that work...