E-commerce Order Fulfilment Picking Conveyor System
One year later and another picking conveyor system successfully completed for our client M24 Logistics, this time for their new flagship fulfilment centre in Cape Town, South Africa.
Based on our experience and learnings implementing the previous system at their new DC in Eastport, Johannesburg, M24 Logistics decision to select Neptek for this project was made a lot easier.
The system Neptek supplied consists of the following technology:
- RECEIVING
- Telescopic Belt Conveyor Unloading;
- In-feed conveyor line;
- In-line weighing scale.
- DECANTING
- Takeaway conveyor line for tote bins from decanting stations;
- Waste belt conveyor line to recycling waste area.
- REPLENISHMENT
- Tote in-feed conveyor line with automatic scanning;
- Mult-level reciprocating conveyor lift;
- Multi-level conveyor system with automatic diverts to replenishment lanes.
- PICKING
- Multi-level tote picking conveyors from the picking lanes;
- Automatic merging onto mezzanine take-away conveyor lines;
- Spiral decline to consolidation area.
- CONSOLIDATION
- Tote conveyor line with automatic diverts to consolidation put walls;
- Put-to-Light shelving system;
- Out-feed conveyor line to packing
- PACKING
- Infeed tote conveyor line with automatic divert to packing stations;
- Outfeed parcel/box conveyor line from packing stations to dispatch.
- DISPTACH
- Decline belt conveyors to ground floor dispatch area;
- Outbound parcel/box conveyor line;
- In-line scanning, weighing and dimensioning;
- Automatic reject system to QC station;
- Auditing conveyor line;
- Dispatch conveyor line to courier cages.
- LINE CONTROL
- Warehouse control system that interfaces with the clients WMS;
- Die back line control;
- Automatic merging and diverts;
- Routing to different floors, replenishment, picking and consolidation zones;
- Consolidation wall put-to-light system;
- Automatic capturing of parcel images, weights and dimensions.
Neptek is excited to be a part of M24Logistics journey in the business of e-commerce 3PL order fulfilment and to play our part in helping their business fulfil service delivery and expand into the future.
