Pick-to-Light & Put-to-Light
Pick more orders with fewer employees while reducing errors
Faster Picking
Pickers FIND inventory much FASTER with a light (and sound) to direct them toward items on their picklist.
What is Pick-to-Light?
Pick-to-Light is a light-directed picking and putting system that optimizes broken case and piece picking for e-commerce order fulfillment. Pick-to-Light hardware is installed on shelves and racks or even on picking carts or put-walls. When a new picklist is initiated, typically through a barcode scan or via an Android device, the Pick-to-Light device is illuminated, indicating the number of items to pick. Picks can be acknowledged through a simple button press and depending on the system, the inventory data may be synchronized with a WMS.
Pick-to-Light dramatically increases the productivity of e-commerce order fulfillment while reducing errors.
Pick-to-Light Process:
- Start a picklist (list of inventory items to pick in order to fill one or more orders–typically started with a barcode scan)
- Pick-to-Light hardware lights up with the quantity to pick
- Picker presses the button to acknowledge each pick
- Picker repeats the process until the picklist is complete
What Makes Our Pick-to-Light System Different?
Voodoo Robotics’ harnesses the power of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) with wireless, cloud-connected Pick-to-Light technology. When a picklist is initiated, our Pick-to-Light devices are illuminated, indicating the picker’s name, SKU and quantity to pick! Our Pick-to-Light devices can be installed almost anywhere and easily integrate with your current ERP or WMS (or our SKU-Keeper inventory management software).
Our pay-as-you-go leasing model allows you to lease precisely the number of lights required each month – permitting both upward and downward seasonal scalability.
Advantages of Pick-to-Light
Picking Carts
Pick-to-Light and put-to-light systems are often used with picking carts to facilitate batch or cluster picking of multiple orders in one pass. Picking carts vary greatly in design and configuration, but most contain several shelves with totes or plastic storage bins. The totes can be configured to hold all the items for a particular order or they can simply hold all the picked inventory which is later sorted by order into a put-wall.
How Our Pick-to-Light System is Different
Voodoo Robotics’ Pick-to-Light system can be used one of TWO WAYS. A simple way to use the system is as a destination device so that each time an item is picked from stock, a put light on the cart illuminates to show in which tote that item should be placed. In a double-lighted system, each pick and each put can BOTH be acknowledged by devices. In this scenario, as the picker pushes the picking cart down the aisle, Pick-to-Light devices associated with a picklist illuminate, then after each pick, a put light on the cart illuminates to show in which tote the inventory should be placed.
Picking carts optimize batch picking by reducing the pickers total travel distance while increasing his/her accuracy and picking rates.
Two Ways to Use a Picking Cart
Single Lighted System:
- The picker picks an item from stock.
- The Put-to-Light device on the cart illuminates to show which tote the item should be placed in.
Double Lighted System:
- Picker pushes the picking cart down the aisle.
- Pick-to-Light devices associated with a picklist illuminate, indicating what should be picked.
- The picker picks an item from inventory.
- After each pick, the put-light on the cart illuminates to show the tote the item should be placed in.
Our Pick-to-Light system runs on two AA batteries that can last for years (depending on usage). Pick-to-Light devices can be installed almost anywhere, eliminating the need for very expensive powered picking carts.
Put Wall
Put walls facilitate the efficient sorting of batch-picked mixed SKU inventory into individual orders. As each item type is scanned, put-to-light devices illuminate the location where the item should be placed.
Puts can be acknowledged with a simple button press or scan. When all items for an order have been put into a slot, a second Pick-to-Light device on the other side of the wall can be used to indicate the order is ready to pack and ship.
What Makes our Pick-to-Light System Different?
Our Pick-to-Light devices can display two lines of custom text, giving specific instructions to pickers or packers. Typically, the devices indicate the picker’s name, SKU, and quantity to be picked or put. Our pick-to-light devices use the ultimate standard – a simple web URL, making integration with your ERP or WMS is simple!
Pick-to-Light System Components
Simple Integration
Our Pick-to-Light system uses the ultimate standard – a simple web URL.
The Pick-to-Light devices easily integrate with your existing ERP or WMS (or our SKU-Keeper inventory management software). A simple URL request, sent to our server on the Amazon Cloud, causes the associated Pick-to-Light device to light up with the picker’s name, SKU and quantity to pick!
Optional SKU-Keeper Inventory Management Software
SKU-Keeper is a hardware and software inventory management system. It’s designed from the ground up to modernize warehouse operations by leveraging the latest IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) technology. While it does some of the same things as traditional inventory management systems, WMS (Warehouse Management Systems) or ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems, it’s far easier to use and way more economical–it even includes a whole Pick-to-Light system!
Pick-to-Light Cost
In order to keep down the cost of the system, Voodoo Robotics leases Pick-to-Light devices on a month-to-month basis! That way, there’s no long-term commitment and no huge up-front fees. There’s no risk: if the system doesn’t work for you, just return the devices and your lease ends! There is NO lock-in.
Unlike others, we are totally upfront about our Pick-to-Light pricing and you can order a starter kit to try it out