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Every once in a while I get a question from my partner, Steve Mulaik, that sets me back a little. I think, “How could I have not thought about that before?”
This time it was, “How do we decide how many zones we should have in a serial zone picking system?”
It would have been nice to be able to say that we simply calculate the number of pickers required to meet the demand and then create a zone for each of them. But, that answer ignores too many of the factors that make a system work well.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
James M. Apple, Jr. is a Director in The Progress Group. Prior to co-founding The Progress Group in 1991, he was a Partner with Coopers & Lybrand's SysteCon division. During 1992-1995 he served as a Senior Systems Advisor with Vanderlande Industries, a major conveyor and systems provider in Europe.
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