Lean Manufacturing Identifies Waste in Non-Picking Tasks Which Increase Costs
Picking Perfection newsletter reported keeping the worker on the work floor, eliminating non picking tasks, axiomatically reduces "walk-time" because the picker need not return to the starting point following each task. Some of the immediate kaizen event net gains means that paper lists are eliminated, consumable cost reduced, and eliminating the need for an operator to man the printer.
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