INTRODUCING: FASTFETCH
SPEED. ACCURACY. EFFICIENCY.
Ascension Logistics implements the best in order fulfillment systems with FastFetch, which blends voice, light-directed picking and putting, and wireless barcode scanning technologies into highly customizable solutions.
SPEED
Increase your pick rate by 50% or more
ACCURACY
Increase your accuracy rate to greater than 99%
EFFICIENCY
Reduce your labor costs
NEW! SHIPPING COST OPTIMIZATION
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WHY FASTFETCH?
High-speed order fulfillment solutions.
Leaders in supply chain excellence are choosing Ascension Logistics and FastFetch for their high-speed order fulfillment. Why? Because they know they can rely on Ascension to customize a solution fit for their needs, and flawlessly implement and test, go-live and provide ongoing support. With over 220+ years of combined industry experience, the experts at Ascension are taking order fulfillment to new heights with FastFetch.
– Joe Plassmeyer, BuySeasons
ALREADY FASTER WITH FASTFETCH:
Industries served by FastFetch
- Automotive Assembly
- Books & Printed Media
- Clothing
- Cosmetics
- Fruits & Vegetables
- Nutritional Supplements
- On-Demand Packaging
- Jewelry
- Salon Products
- Tobacco
- Industrial Tools
- Vending
FASTFETCH PRODUCTS
BATCH PICKING
Our batch picking solution combines the best features of pick-to-light, put-to-light, voice, and wireless barcode scanning technologies into a single cart-based solution that yields significant increases in both the speed and accuracy of piece picking.
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System Overview
- Voice guides the picker through the picking process.
- Lights on product bays highlight pick locations and display pick quantities.
- Lights on the cart highlight put locations and put quantities.
- Wireless barcode scanning is an alternative to light-directed picking to confirm that the right product was picked.
- The entire process is orchestrated by a tablet PC without the need for continuous connectivity to a host computer.
Features
- Employs a multimodal picking approach that blends voice, barcode scanning, light directed picking and putting
- technologies into a single system
- Works with both lighted and non-lighted product locations
- Operates without the need for a host computer to control lights on bays
- Can speak any language
- Tablet can display images of products being picked
- Readily scalable to fit both small and large operations
- Provides fault-tolerant operation
- Uses cubing information for box selection
Benefits
- Pickers work in a hands-free, heads-up mode
- Fast, accurate order fulfillment
- Easy to interface to customer’s WMS
- Reduces or eliminates the need for auditing and packing
- Minimizes travel time in the DC to pick products
- Flexible reconfiguration to meet changing business needs
- Easy to learn, easy to use, and easy to maintain
- Low-cost entry point with incremental expansion path
- Excellent ROI with short pay-back period
PUT WALLS SOLUTIONS
A put wall is a collection of compartments into which products can be placed as an intermediate step in order fulfillment. When used for e-commerce order fulfillment, for example, each compartment contains a customer order. For store replenishment, put wall compartments contain orders for particular stores. Put walls often employ one side for putting products into compartments and the other side for packing completed orders.
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When all of the products for a given order have been placed into the proper compartments, lights on the pack side of the put wall are activated to indicate that the order is ready to pack. Variations in this strategy can be employed to allow multiple workers to complete putting and packing tasks concurrently at the same put wall.
System Overview
- Put walls are ideal when picking low-velocity SKU’s from large areas.
- Put walls provide efficient strategies for order building for both individual e-commerce orders and store orders.
- Optionally integrates with FastFetch’s cart-based batch picking system for gathering bulk products.
- When the needed items arrive at the put wall, they are scanned and lights associated with the individual compartments indicate which orders require the scanned product.
- Lights on the pack side highlight completed orders.
Features
- Employs barcode scanning to identify a particular product and light-directed putting to place the product into the correct compartment
- Items can be picked in bulk for multiple put walls
- Can dynamically allocate compartments to orders
- Supports multiple workers working simultaneously on both the put and pack sides
- Can process waves with more orders than put wall compartments by reusing compartment that have been packed
Benefits
- Fast and accurate order fulfillment for e-commerce and store replenishment
- Paperless operation
- Scalable and flexible to accommodate changing business needs
- Easy to learn, easy to use, and easy to maintain
- Speeds fulfillment by using multiple workers simultaneously on both the put and pack sides
- Improves throughput by over committing orders to put wall compartments
- Reduces walking time by dynamically assigning orders to compartments close to the last put location
PICK-TO-LIGHT SOLUTIONS
Pick-to-light technology is widely accepted as a means of improving the speed and accuracy of order fulfillment. With a pick-to-light strategy, light modules with numerical displays are placed adjacent to product locations. Picking areas are typically divided into zones, and a picker is assigned to handle all picking tasks within a zone. Zones operate like independent work cells on an assembly line.
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After completing a pick, the picker confirms the pick by pressing a confirmation button on a light module. When all picks in the zone are completed, the picker sends the tote to the next zone and inducts a new tote into the zone.
System Overview
- Uses a light-sensitive proximity switch to confirm picks rather than a mechanical button
- Optionally supports displays of text and graphics on a monitor within each zone
Features
- Uses a light-sensitive proximity switch to confirm picks rather than a mechanical button
- Optionally supports displays of text and graphics on a monitor within each zone
Benefits
- Fast and accurate order fulfillment
- Paperless operation
- Easy to learn, easy to use, and easy to maintain
- Lights and ancillary hardware can be sealed in water-tight channels for operation in harsh environments
- Orders can be customized based upon special instructions displayed when an order reaches a zone
SHIPPING COST OPTIMIZATION
Shipping excessive air has become more expensive with carriers charging for both size and weight. FastFetch’s Shipping Cost Optimization System uses artificial intelligence (AI) to compute the dimensions of a carton that accommodates the items to be shipped while minimizing wasted space; it then makes the right-sized carton available on-demand as orders are ready to be packed. With right-sized packaging, the average volume of shipping containers can be cut by as much as 30% and yield significant savings on shipping costs!
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FastFetch’s solution is a complete solution encompassing carton storage, carton selection, and replenishment of consumed cartons. FastFetch analyzes historical order records to identify an assortment of cartons – perhaps 40 or more – that will accommodate the entire set of past orders with minimal wasted space. Multiple units of each of the assorted carton sizes are then maintained in carton racks positioned at packing stations. The system uses item dimensions to quickly determine which of the assortment of cartons is optimal for packing a collection of itms with minimal wasted space. the system then identifies the optimal carton by illuminating a strip of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) so the packer can quickly access the optimal carton as soon as it is needed. Consumed cartons are replenished on the carton rack using voice and light0directed technologies on a delivery cart. Finally, orders are sent to a carton supplier on a frequent basis to replenish cartons that have been consumed.
