Melaleuca
System Summary
Melaleuca, The Wellness Company produces health-promoting supplements, bath and body products, safe and gentle household cleaners, and age-defying beauty products.
Business Challange
- Increasing sales accompanied by increasing labor for order fulfillment.
- Melaleuca’s existing system made it necessary for each employee to handle every container, regardless if there was product to be picked in that area (Pick & Pass). This made for unproductive order fulfillment.
Key Technologies
- ASAP PictureView™ Pick-to-Display (PTD)
- Order Picking Automated Order Routing Software (WCS)
- Steeplechase platform (WCS)
- One 2-level pick module
- 3-lane pick module conveyors utilizing high speed Bi-directional diverts (22 cases per minute)
- Ermanco narrow belt sorter for pack Mettler-Toledo in motion check weighing systems
- Hytrol pre-sort Shoe Sorter Accusort line scanners and omni-directional scanner
- Transnorm gravity chutes
- Blue Arc Engineering empty carton flow racks
Results
- ASAP’s solution helped the organization attain their 8% annual growth rate.
- The 3-lane pick modules directed the containers entering a zone to only those that needed product from that zone which increases efficiency for the operators.
- ASAP’s Pick to Display solution provided the highest level of precision for order fulfillment. The employee is able to compare the product being picked to the displayed image of the required product.
