Technology updates optimize the fulfillment process, improve productivity, and improve the overall user experience for warehouse personnel.
WALTHAM, Mass. (March 14, 2023) – 6 River Systems (6RS), part of leading global commerce company Shopify Inc. (NYSE: SHOP), plans to launch its latest innovation, a mobile fulfillment app. announced. A new set of tools designed to improve speed and efficiency in your warehouse. The Mobile Fulfillment App is built on 6RS’ industry-leading cloud-based Fulfillment Execution System (FES), and is designed to help Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) out of reach due to product size, weight, or warehouse location. Facilitates item picking. This creates a unified user experience for warehouse workers who previously had to learn and use multiple systems to complete these tasks.
6RS’ mobile fulfillment app leverages the benefits of FES to streamline work routing, reduce training time over traditional systems, and enhance data tracking for greater visibility and operational efficiency. provide insight. The first release of the mobile fulfillment app addresses the challenges commonly associated with AMR picking systems by combining the capabilities of FES with existing warehouse equipment such as walkie-talkie riders, forklifts and man-ups.
Jerome Dubois, Vice President of Shopify Logistics and co-founder of 6 River Systems, said: “The 6RS Mobile Fulfillment app extends the existing he WMS solution to improve warehouse operations. When combined with automation solutions such as our robotic Chuck, the mobile app delivers wall-to-wall accuracy, productivity, and improve SLA times.”
“The 6RS chuck has proven to be an invaluable asset at our facility, delivering strong results overall. Based on its success, we are further leveraging the 6RS technology to optimize our warehouse operations. “With the new mobile fulfillment app, we hope to standardize outbound task execution and training, improve process quality, and leverage efficiency improvements,” Hanifin said. ”
In addition to the mobile fulfillment app, 6RS has announced three new technical features of its fulfillment execution system. These are available to customers now. These include:
• Mobile sorting for multiple work areas: 6RS’s mobile sorting process provides a simple and modern user experience for performing post-pick sorting of batch orders across multiple zones (i.e. picking across the mezzanine floor). To do. Customers benefit from powerful batching and allocation algorithms and improve operator productivity with end-to-end visibility delivered in one system.
• Language translations: All 6RS user interfaces, including The Bridge (6RS’ management console), Chuck, and Universal Terminal, support Spanish (Mexico), Czech, Dutch, and Polish, with per-user language assignment Now you can. This accelerates training and employee engagement, increases productivity, and reduces errors over manual systems. It will also provide new job opportunities to a wider audience and help ease labor pressure for warehouse managers.
• Improved system usability: New system enhancements improve efficiency and reduce training time compared to traditional operation. Updated Chuck user experience for picking to help employees quickly identify the correct destination container for picked items, and enhanced logging in Bridge for operations managers to track order wave processing issues You can reduce the time it takes to
6RS will be exhibiting at Promat 2023 in Chicago March 20-23. Attendees can visit booth #S2352 to see a live demonstration of our mobile fulfillment app and learn about other newly released features that optimize fulfillment. Additionally, 6RS will host an in-booth “Ask Me Anything” event that he will open to the public on March 22nd at 10:15a (CST).
The Mobile Fulfillment app is currently in testing with select warehouse partner groups and is expected to be commercially available in Q3 2023. For more information on the Mobile Fulfillment app and other his 6RS solutions, please visit https://6river.com/. mobile fulfillment.
