To get the right order to the right picker at the right time, you need the right fulfillment system. Matthews provides total integration to get fast, accurate results.
Global brands partner with Matthews Automation Solutions for innovative material handling technologies and proven vertical industry expertise. Matthews’ leading warehouse automation brands – Compass Engineering, Lightning Pick and Pyramid – drive efficiency, accuracy and speed in high-volume order fulfillment and distribution centers.
In-Store Grocery Order Fulfillment: Automated Picking with Pick-to-Light Carts
November 27, 2020 | Lynn Drewicz
Matthews’ advanced Pyramid Director and Compass CORS Warehouse Execution Software connects automated systems into one centralized stream, balancing work throughout the fulfillment process for optimum material flow, throughput and real-time visibility. Our software and controls maximize efficiency for new and existing material handling equipment including conveyor, loop sorters and order finishing systems. Matthews’ Lightning Pick brand is the leading pick-to-light system in North America, including put walls and automated batch picking carts.
Combined with emerging collaborative robot technologies, the Matthews solution architecture is built to meet your process challenges today, and tomorrow.
WAREHOUSE AUTOMATION SOFTWARE AND SYSTEMS
Best-of-Breed. Innovative. Integrated.
WAREHOUSE EXECUTION SYSTEMS
Matthews Pyramid and Compass software and controls platforms solutions for end users, systems integrators, distributors and material handling original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).
Pyramid | Compass solutions integrate interconnected systems to balance work, provide process visibility and boost end-to-end material flow with continuous measurements, holistic system analysis, upcoming workload prediction and more to enhance order flow, accuracy, and fulfillment speed.
LIGHT-DIRECTED SYSTEMS
Lightning Pick, a Matthews Automation Solutions brand, is the leading suite of light-directed material handling systems in North America. Matthews Lightning Pick energizes omnichannel order fulfillment speed, accuracy and efficiency with advanced pick-to-light, put-to-light and put walls, pack-to-light for store replenishment, automated picking carts and other paperless pick automation.
Matthews Lightning Pick features a deep catalog of light module hardware and sophisticated order fulfillment execution software.
Modern Materials Handling Features New Footwear Distribution Center Utilizing Matthews Automation Solutions
Caleres, home of several global footwear brands, is profiled in MMH’s January cover story. Their state-of-the-art, omnichannel distribution center utilizes Lightning Pick put walls from Matthews Automation Solutions to sort pairs of shoes for mixed case orders. Read how flexible automation like Lightning Pick enables Caleres to successfully manage changes in order volume between channels.
Lightning Pick Featured in Modern Materials Handling Article on the Evolution of Pick-to-Light
Modern Materials Handling has interviewed Matthews Automation Solutions’ Dave Remsing for their September 2020 issue, “Pick-to-Light’s Evolution”. This article focuses on light-directed systems for order fulfillment, including trends on using pick-to-light, put-to-light and new technology combinations for maximum efficiency.
Matthews Automation Solutions is a Matthews International company
Matthews International Corporation (NASDAQ GSM: MATW), headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a global provider of brand solutions, memorialization products and industrial technologies. The SGK Brand Solutions segment is a leader in providing brand development, deployment and delivery services that help build our clients’ brands and consumers’ desire for them. The Memorialization segment is a leading provider of memorialization products, including memorials, caskets and cremation equipment, primarily to cemetery and funeral home customers that help families move from grief to remembrance. The Industrial Technologies segment—which includes Matthews Automation Solutions—designs, manufactures and distributes marking, coding and industrial automation technologies and solutions. We have approximately 11,000 employees in more than 25 countries on six continents that are committed to delivering the highest quality products and services.
