Order Selection
b'Welcome back to Warehouse and Operations as a Career! Today I\\u2019d like to talk a bit about Order Selection, its came up a couple of times and being one of the positions that can help set our course on a career I\\u2019d like to broach the subject and at least look at what it is. Depending on what Industry you\\u2019re in it could be referred to as Picking, Order Filling, Selection, Piece Pick or Bulk Pick, I\\u2019ve even heard it referenced as Boxing before. My names Marty and I\\u2019ll be walking us through a brief introduction to the Selection Process today.
\\nFor our purposes an Order Selector is responsible for taking a product off a shelf, pallet or bin, making sure it is the correct product AND the correct quantity then placing it on a pallet, building a complete order of items for a customer. There is A LOT of information on the internet, many many Job Descriptions and like a hundred different ways and machines to perform the task. Today we\\u2019ll just try and relate to a broad overview as it relates to us here at WAOC and our experiences. Please leave us any comments as to your experiences in the comment section on our website, we\\u2019d all like to learn from each other here!
\\nO.K., I\\u2019ve had several questions about \\u201cthat seems to be where the money is\\u201d, referring to Selection, and yes it generally does pay well, it is usually one of the top paying positions at your warehouse and there\\u2019s a reason for that. Filling a Customers order carries with it a lot of responsibility, the product must be correct, the quantity must be correct and the product needs to be received undamaged. Generally productivity must be high as there\\u2019s only so much time to get the product to the customer. In the quick paced world we live in today an order cut off can be like at 5pm for the customer to know what he or she needs for the next day and his delivery truck may be dispatched at midnight. If we have 200 customers needing 100k different cases going on a hundred different trucks you can see the need for urgency here right lol.
\\nI feel all Selection, wither it\\u2019s like parts for electronics or small parts for machines or lumber in lumber yards to the food service industry is an important task. Actually order selection or whatever you want to call it is considered the backbone of the warehouse operation in our Logistics world. I feel one has to rank it right up there with Transportation in the Operations arena.
\\nWither you\\u2019re working off of a pick sheet, which is just a piece of paper telling you what slot to go to and how many of what item to pull and gather for 1 customers order or 20 different customers or a RF scanning program directing you with a handheld unit or a unit you wear on your body or directed through a headset on your head every customer needs what they ordered and the correct count of each item and it needs to be undamaged while being stacked and gathered during the process.
\\nThere are as many types of selection as there are names for it.
\\nOrder selection \\u2013 can mean pulling 1 customers order at a time
\\nBatch Selection \\u2013 can mean running down every aisle of the warehouse pulling many customers orders at the same time and organizing the separately on your pallets or buggies
\\nPallet Pulling \\u2013 or pulling full pallet quantities at a time
\\nAnd of course your industry or facility may have several other types of processing for its orders. Let\\u2019s go back to Jeff Character, remember our candidate from Episode 1 and look at the process he\\u2019d be working with. If you remember he was leaving the restaurant industry at the urging of some food service distribution contacts & we\\u2019ve heard from a few others here at WAOC from that industry so maybe that\\u2019s a good place to start.
\\nOur tools for selection may very well be an Electric Rider Pallet jack, wither single, or 1 pallet or a double or triple jack meaning pulling 3 pallets at a time. Forklifts are another piece of equipment we could be using,'