MHD WAREHOUSING
Sure Sort is smart automation based on iBOT delivery technology.
DATA SAVVY DELIVERY Glen Urquhart, Sales Manager at Dexion Intralogistics shares a cost-effective sorting system that will be a game-changer for order fulfilment in Australia.
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oday’s sort-to-order challenge has been escalated to a whole new level due to the pressure on e-commerce following new peaks in online shopping due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Common challenges for businesses today are identifying order trends, peak days and slow days, all whilst ensuring there are no bottle necks in the operation on a daily basis. Glen Urquhart, Sales Manager at Dexion Intralogistics, says ensuring a system is designed to minimise bottlenecks, regardless of the level of activity during any given day, is critical in moving inventory and improving operations. For a 3PL business in Wetherill Park, Sydney, their online fulfilment operation was successfully detangled, due to a compact and cost-effective solution that has proven to be an international success.
Sort system, by Opex Corporation. Glen says Dexion is the only distributor that deploys this solution to the domestic market in Australia. “The 3PL business in Sydney was the first site to implement the Sure Sort system. The company has a vast range of clients with online order requirements, and they were amazed at the efficiency of order volumes since it was first installed all those years ago,” Glen says. Glen notes that many businesses across the current 3PL and e-commerce fulfilment sector are bursting at the seams with the high-volume levels across operations following unprecedented demand due to the
SURE SORT SUCCESS In 2015, when e-commerce sales were slowly beginning to account for a percentage of retail sales in Australia, a 3PL business in Sydney was proactive to seek a highly scalable, cost-effective, and configurable single item sorting system. Glen says the company deployed Sure 54 | MHD JUNE 2020
Developed in the USA, Sure Sort is utilised by leading global e-commerce clients.
current pandemic. “Picking and sorting technologies should be explored by all companies in the market looking to manage their order volumes,” he says. Glen thinks some companies find it daunting to completely change their warehouse solution. “The Sure Sort is looking to simplify existing systems, not completely change operations in a complex manner,” Glen says. He thinks the reason the Sure Sort system is becoming increasingly popular with 3PL’s and e-commerce operations is because it can be integrated with existing systems and other picking technologies. “Sure Sort is a tool that can complement existing machinery and systems. It’s definitely a leverage tool
