Fool-Proof Formulas for Improving Warehouse Efficiency

Nov 11, 2013 |

Increase Efficiency and Profitability

Increasing profits with cubing and dimensioning systems

Collecting and utilizing cube and weight data is vital to maximizing your distribution center investment. In today’s fast paced automated world, it doesn’t make sense to rely on outdated methods of measuring and weighing every item in your warehouse–it’s time consuming, labor intensive, costly, and error prone. With a Cubiscan 100, your cubing process becomes completely automated, quickly transferring needed cube and weight data to your Warehouse Management System (WMS), improving operations while increasing your efficiency and profitability. 

Mobile CubiScan with a cart

Automating the Cubing Process

The Cubiscan 100 mobile cubing and weighing system is easy to install. We ship the system to your warehouse with the Cubiscan box securely strapped to the top of an optional mobile cart. The system's modular design allows the user to quickly set up the Cubiscan, and we include the few tools you’ll need for installation, so components can be attached in a matter of minutes. The mobile cart, swinging arm platform (for a PC), portable power supply, and handheld barcode scanner, make the Cubiscan 100 the perfect mobile cubing, weighing, and identification workstation. When the Cubiscan system is connected to your PC, the collected data is stored and electronically transmitted by batch or real-time to your warehouse management or shipping system.

Tossing Inaccurate Cubic Data

A typical warehouse slotting exercise, carton selection routine, or freight manifesting function, requires most, if not all items in a facility, be measured and weighed. With thousands of SKU’s to be handled, the task can be overwhelming. The mobility of the Cubiscan 100 allows the operator to move up and down warehouse isles, measuring and weighing everything in the distribution center. 

Once accurate cube and weight data is collected on items stored in the warehouse, the Cubiscan can be easily relocated to receiving areas to measure and weigh new items as they arrive at the distribution center, keeping the warehouse management system item master file accurate and up to date.

How to Dimension Your Entire DC Like a ProWarehouse measurements, eliminating the tape measure

Operating the Cubiscan 100 is fast and easy. The system’s straight-forward design requires little training and operates with a powerful, user-friendly software interface program call Qbit. Items in your distribution center are measured in seconds by scanning a product ID, verifying the measurements on the computer screen, and accepting the data with a single keystroke. Our Qbit software solutions will store, organize, and electronically transfer data in a number of formats and transfer modes. We offer a wide variety of off-the-shelf interface solutions to choose from. Additionally, we have the ability to customize an interface to fit your specific data collection and transfer needs.

The Cubiscan 100 is a powerful and easy-to-use tool for improving warehouse efficiency. Using a mobile Cubiscan 100, a single operator can cube, weigh, and transmit data at well over 100 items per hour. With a capacity of twelve cubic feet and an accuracy of 1 tenth of an inch, it is both powerful and accurate, handling a wide range of products, making cube sensitive decisions easier and more effective. Cubiscan has over 30 years of experience, focusing exclusively on developing state-of-the-art, automated dimension scanning systems.

Final Step in Improving Warehouse Efficiency 

To learn more about Cubiscan cubing and weighing systems, and how they can help your distribution center maximize warehouse efficiency and productivity, visit us online at www.cubiscan.com, info@cubiscan.com, or call us at 1-800-488-CUBE.  We look forward to hearing from you. 

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