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PICK-TO-LIGHT 101

pick to light basics.

A brief, comprehensive overview
of Pick-to-Light solutions.

What is Pick-to-Light

Lightning Pick Technologies is a lightdirected order fulfillment systems

Key Industries and Applications

specialist. We led the cable-free light

module revolution and the innovative

System Components

engineering of our hardware technology

continues to provide extreme operational
advantages. At the core of all Lightning

Benefits of Light-Directed Order Picking

Pick products is our robust software that

drives the most powerful, flexible order
fulfillment system available.

Contact Information
N114 W18770 Clinton Drive
P.O. Box 130
Germantown, WI 53022

DONE RIGHT. AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT.

Toll Free: 800-827-8878

Phone: 262-250-2100
Email: info@lightningpick.com
URL: www.lightningpick.com

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PTL overview.

PICK-TO-LIGHT 101

What is Pick-to-Light?
Light-directed order fulfillment systems use light indicator modules mounted
to shelving, flow rack, work benches, pallet rack or other storage locations.
Whenever product is needed from a particular location, the right indicator turns
on, drawing attention where action is required. The operator picks the product
quantity displayed. The operator then confirms the pick by pressing the lighted
button.

Where does Pick-to-Light apply?

Pick-to-Light works best in a piece pick or broken case pick environment where
there are high density order picking areas. Often a general rule is the 80/20
rule - if 80% of a distributors item-level picking volume comes from 20% of their
SKU base, then Pick-to-Light is an ideal solution to optimize
productivity and accuracy.
Pick-to-Light can easily be configured to add perfromance and efficiency to
many popular order picking methodologies, including Order, Wave, Zone and
Batch picking techniques. Variations on light-directed technologies such as Putto-Light or Pack-to-Light are ideal for high-speed sortation processes, where
a batch of orders is sorted to individual customer orders, or used to maximize
throughput for retail store order distribution.

Key Industries
Lightning Pick Technologies has serviced over 400 installations across a wide
spectrum of demanding vertical industries for the past 25 years.
We have order fulfillment solutions specifically engineered to meet the unique
challenges of the key industires listed below, and many others.
Contact Lightning Pick Technologies today to learn more about the solutions
that will increase the productivity and accuracy of your order fulfillment
operations.

Toll Free: 800-827-8878

Retail

Pharmaceutical

Direct Marketing

Automotive

High Tech Electronics

Computer

Health & Beauty

Liquor Distribution

Catalog

Manufacturing

Music/Publishing

Grocery & Convenience

Phone: 262-250-2100

Email: info@lightningpick.com

URL: www.lightningpick.com

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system components.

PICK-TO-LIGHT 101

Media
The flexibility of Lightning Picks cable-free light module hardware enables the
productivity of light-directed order fulfillment to be applied to virtually all popular
material storage and handling media found in distribution centers or manufacturing plants. This includes static shelving, carton flow rack, batch picking carts,
pallet rack, horizontal and vertical carousels, and others.
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Hardware
Lightning Pick Technologies led the cable-free light module revolution with our
"C" DUCT
exclusive Twin-Wire design. The innovative engineering of our hardware technology provides unprecedented flexibility for a variety of Light-directed order fulfillment solutions.

"C" DUCT

"A" DUCT

"A" DUCT

The Twin Wire design allows modules to operate independently, without interconnected cabling, for fast and easy installations and system maintenance.
Convenient surface mounting onto existing rack or shelving systems reduces
installation time and costs. Product additions, re-slotting and maintenance are
simply executed with Lightning Picks track lighting style configuration.
Lightning Pick light-directed solutions are regarded as having the brightest, clearest and most functional lights in the industry. A variety of size profiles, light colors
and orientations are available to best meet your application requirements.

Software
At the core of Lightning Pick products is the robust Lightning Pick software that is
the most powerful, flexible order fulfillment execution system
available.
Users have complete control through the Lightning Pick Management Console to
quickly add products and locations, change staffing and work zones, expedite hot
orders, access real-time statistics on picker productivity (including on an individual level), order volumes and all system activities. Advanced data management
capabilities provide easy manipulation of your business intelligence and reporting
needs.
Lightning Pick Technologies leverages the best in leading Microsoft technologies.
From the Windows operating system and the SQL Server Database to .NET
development, Lightning Pick is built for reliability, functionality and on the industry
standard.
Toll Free: 800-827-8878

Phone: 262-250-2100

Email: info@lightningpick.com

URL: www.lightningpick.com

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PICK-TO-LIGHT 101

The Lightning Pick Advantage.

Pick-to-Light is Fast.
By lighting the exact location or locations needed, Pick-to-Light is
acknowledged to be the fastest operator-based picking strategy available.
In the time it takes to hear and interpret a location number or read a location
number from a pick list of an RF terminal screen, the pick-to-light operator is
already making the pick.

Pick-to-Light is Accurate.
By getting the operator to the right location each time the picking process is
greatly simplified. Task simplification and replication produces accuracy.

Pick-to-Light is Paperless.
No more pick sheets to handle and tally marks to record. Pick-to-Light
operators simply scan an order number on the carton or tote and the system
does the rest. Paperless picking reduces costs, reduces errors and
streamlines operations.

Pick-to-Light is Simultaneous.
Other computer-based solutions like RF terminals and voice terminals are
sequential in nature. The equipment is only capable of showing what the computer thinks should be the next pick. In a Pick-to-Light system ALL locations
required in an area light up at once. This allows the operator to choose the best
pick path and even pick in both directions.

Pick-to-Light is Team-Based.
Operators work in assembly line fashion. Each workers area is called a zone.
Orders are passed from zone to zone on a conveyor, cart or other transportation mechanism. This assembly line approach further enhances productivity by
reducing walking.

Pick-to-Light is Cost Effective.

Pick-to-Light has been around for nearly 20 years. Originally, only the largest
facilities with the fastest processing requirements could afford it.
Recent advances in technology and the advent of Windows-based computer
systems have brought the cost within reach of nearly all order fulfillment
operations.

DONE RIGHT. AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT.

Toll Free: 800-827-8878

Phone: 262-250-2100

Email: info@lightningpick.com

URL: www.lightningpick.com