Third-Party Logistics
Lightning Pick is a trusted technology partner to many third-party logistics (3PL) and third-party fulfillment (3PF) providers. Pyramid helps 3PLs achieve advanced order fulfillment operations and service levels at reduced operational cost.
Pyramid for 3PL
- Flexibility: agile solutions support optimization of multiple product lines and customers with a single, common automation solution.
- Modularity: highly modular product design lets solutions evolve with your requirements and allows incremental expansion.
- Capacity: scalable solutions deliver increased throughput and capacity to meet current needs and future growth.
Unique third-party challenges
As 3PLs focus more on e-commerce and omnichannel fulfillment, they must drive down costs and increase productivity within labor-intensive, unit-handling tasks: order picking, sorting, packing, assembly and value-added steps throughout the process.
Many recognize the benefits of moving from paper-based, manual processes to pick automation. It is often difficult, though, to select and implement automation in environments where the only constant is change. The ideal solution optimizes multiple accounts, diverse products, unique requirements and fluctuating order volumes.
Light-directed solutions for flexible applications
Whether using a single light-directed product or multiple solutions in an integrated fulfillment system, properly engineered technologies simplify complex 3PL and 3PF operations and reduce their cost. Standalone or integrated combinations of pick-to-light, put-to-light, batch picking carts, light sleds, mobile light frames and others optimize:
- Picking
- Kitting
- Sortation and re-consolidation
- Assembly
- Value-added services like automated print-and-apply labeling and order finishing, including document insertion
- Packing
Leading 3PLs use Lightning Pick technologies in one fulfillment center or across multiple facilities in their network to provide best-in-class order fulfillment services.
Rapid results
- Support of multiple product lines and customers with a single, common hardware set
- Freedom to move automation where needed as product demands shift
- Hardware modularity for incremental expansion
- Capacity gains that support current and future growth projections
- Easy training for new employees and faster productivity
- Segregation of cart-based batch picking by product line or client to optimize travel paths
- Lot capture and verification for food and beverage, pedigree tracking for medical and pharmaceutical applications, and more
- Dynamic location reconfiguration for easy switching between customer lines in the same rack, shelving or storage media
- Integration with, or management of, complementary automation such as container routing, print-and-apply labeling, weigh stations and QC workstations
Solutions for 3PLs
MORE THAN JUST EQUIPMENT. BUILT FOR EXCELLENCE.
As your end-to-end automation partner, we listen and solve, innovate and support – so that nothing stands in your way.
MORE THAN JUST EQUIPMENT. BUILT FOR EXCELLENCE.
As your end-to-end automation partner, we listen and solve, innovate and support – so that nothing stands in your way.