Raymond Handling Concepts Corporation
4140 Boyce Road
Fremont, CA, 94538
Telephone (510) 745-7500
Facsimile (510) 745-7686
www.raymondhandling.com
Advanced Materials Handling Systems and Strategies
It’s not just business. It’s personal.
PICKING COMPARISON WORKSHEET
Forced to process more orders with the same or less people?
How does your order fulfillment operation compare to others?
Answer the following questions to determine your pick rates, then compare to the
benchmarked below:
YOUR CASE AND PIECE PICKING RATES
Average orders per day
Average line items (SKU’s) per order
Average cases per order
Hours picking per day
Total number of pickers
= Lines and cases per hour per picker
0
0
LINES/HOUR
CASES/HOUR
*PIECE PICKING TYPICALLY MEASURED IN LINES/HOUR AND FULL CASE IN CASE/HOUR
COMPARISON TO DISTRIBUTION BENCHMARK
PIECE PICKING RATES BY STYLE
Pick to container on conveyor
Pick to cart
Carousel pick to container
Flow rack to container
Bin shelves to container
Light directed picking
Min/Max
60/150
30/100
200/400
100/200
50/150
300/1100
FULL CASE PICKING BY STYLE
Min/Max
Measure
25/60
40/85
30/80
50/120
30/50
Lines/hr
Cases/hr
Lines/hr
Cases/hr
Lines/hr
40/100
200/400
Cases/hr
Cases/hr
Pick to cart/pallet jack
Pick to powered pallet jack
Pick to man-up orderpicker truck
Case pick to conveyor
Measure
Lines/hr
Lines/hr
Lines/hr
Lines/hr
Lines/hr
Lines/hr
(Rates are published in Gross and Associates “Rules of Thumb” guidebook)
To raise your picking efficiency to the next level, please contact your account manager
and Raymond Handling Concepts’ Integrated Systems Group for a free consultation.