Did you know that, on average, 24% of orders are cancelled due to shipping delays? This can clearly affect your sales. To avoid such incidents, it's important to identify the reasons that can lead to malfunctions in your various order-picking stages. The first is usually due to human error or poor-quality handling equipment. The second is the considerable loss of time due to time-consuming, repetitive or non-computerized tasks.
Here are our three tips for optimizing your process. As a bonus, find out more about our company, Rolls Rapides, your partner of choice for this mission.
3 effective ways to manage your order picking perfectly
Managing orders and ensuring that your customers receive them in excellent condition is at the heart of your mission. As a self-respecting company, you want to provide your customers with an exemplary customer experience. To achieve this goal, you need a flawless process. All the steps leading up to and following the click on the "confirm order" button must be standardized, some even timed.
Be perfectly prepared to receive orders
Impeccable forecasting is essential to the success of your order-picking process. You need to know in advance what your bestsellers and future needs are. This way, you'll stock up on the quantities and references that are sure to be in demand, and you'll never run out of stock. We also recommend that you anticipate the receipt of orders by purchasing, in advance, the most suitable packaging for your merchandise.
In addition, your depot or warehouse needs to be perfectly laid out so that when your operators need to look for the products they've ordered, they'll be able to find them easily. The use of our nestable roll carts, for example, optimizes space and makes it easier to locate items. This kind of organization avoids wasting unnecessary time.
Finally, you should seal the deal with an efficient and punctual transport provider. Ask for several quotes and find one whose prices won't add to your budget.
Order picking cart
Saving time and improving ergonomics is now possible with the order picking cart. At Rolls Rapides, we've created a range of customizable models to suit your needs.
Good quality handling equipment to manage orders properly
In addition to the equipment required upstream of order reception, you need carts to transfer products from stock to the packing, labelling and dispatch stations. These must be of impeccable quality, so as not to hinder operators in their movements, and to protect your goods perfectly. You can opt for our picking carts or order pickers. But you can also choose specific devices that we can custom-build for you. In all cases, our models are highly ergonomic, light and fast. What's more, their design will ensure the safety of your employees and prevent accidents in the workplace. Your choice of tools will be guided by the characteristics of the space you have available, but also by the picking strategy used by your company.
Use computer software to monitor order preparation
Computerization of the order management process has become an obligation for any company wishing to be profitable and successful. As a company with more than 500 employees, a large SME or an international group, you're surely aware of this. So, to optimize your process and have excellent visibility over the various stages of order preparation, you need to be equipped with excellent, modern - and ideally, intuitive - computer software.
This will enable you to properly manage your inventory, which will be constantly updated, and reduce human error considerably. These errors can also be avoided thanks to barcode-generating systems. Finally, you'll also be able to track, step by step, the routing of your merchandise to the customer.
Rolls Rapides, your material handling equipment solution
As you can see, choosing equipment from Rolls Rapides, the French materials handling specialist, will enable you to optimize a large part of your order preparation process.
In addition to our carts and rolls, whose quality is now well known in the industry, you'll benefit from a number of other advantages when you choose us.
Our team benefits from 30 years of expertise in device design. That's why we're one of the few companies to offer customized solutions. If you're not happy with standard fixtures, our design department will create prototypes for you. Then they'll create items whose size and design fit your needs perfectly.
Our 3 decades of hard work also give us the necessary experience to be able to repair our models. We'll also take care of any other models you may have that aren't made by us.
We sell both new and used products. We also offer our equipment for hire. All these services are designed to fit your budget.
