Order picking can easily consume more than half of a warehouse’s resources. Since order picking is one of the most labor-consuming, time-consuming, and budget-consuming aspects of warehouse operations, streamlining it is one of the biggest ways warehouses can improve tight profit margins.

Warehouses increasingly need to save space. With consumers
buying more and more items, warehouses have more and more product to store. At
the same time, soaring building costs make renting or building more space cost
prohibitive for many businesses.