Commissioning
Commissioning is understood as the individual assembling of items from an assortment at the customer's request.
Brief description
Based on the demand information, subsets are compiled from a set of provided assortments.
Commissioning:
- Making the goods available
- Movement of the commissioning person
- Collecting the goods
- Release of goods
These processes can be partially or fully automatic or purely manual. Nowadays, however, the trend is moving more and more toward automated picking. As a result, picking robots are increasingly being used. These are machines designed to make repetitive picking processes faster, safer and more accurate. A distinction is made between order-oriented (single-stage) and article-oriented (multi-stage) picking.
- In the case of order-oriented or single-step picking, all goods included in the collection list are collected one by one from the places where they are made available. At the end of this process, the order is collected.
- In the case of article-oriented or multi-stage picking, several orders are initially collected to a single batch (first stage), and then the quantities are assigned to the corresponding orders (second stage).