SLAM’s New Initiative: Warehouse Automated Receipt and Putaway
Article from MHI Solutions Magazine
The Scan, Label, Apply and Manifest (SLAM) Industry Group of MHI offers automated solutions for packaging and shipping products from a warehouse—and now the group has established a new committee for automating inbound processes: Warehouse Automated Receipt and Putaway (WARP).
WARP is almost an identical process to the SLAM outbound system, except it’s for incoming goods, said Bruce Muir, director of industry solutions sales at MHI member SICK Inc., and chair of SLAM’s WARP committee.
“We receive product, and as part of the receiving process, we can dimension cartons and weigh them to make sure the product is not damaged in any way, and it is the correct item,” Muir said. “Then we can label cartons and route them to wherever the product is to be put away…
