Eliminates manual handling
March 1st 2007 A new sortation system designed and installed by systems integrator SDI Greenstone for HMV's efulfilment distribution centre (DC) in Guernsey is automatically dispatching 40,000 items daily, and this number is set to grow. The packing and sortition system has been designed to deliver items bagged by postcode for collection by the Guernsey Post Office. Comprising four packing machines with an SDI Greenstone 120-dropstation sorter and an induction conveyor system, the installation streamlines dispatch of purchases made through HMV's hmv.co.uk online store. HMV's package and dispatch operation had previously been extremely labour-intensive with products being handled several times through the process. "The brief that we gave the SDI Greenstone designers was to devise a process which eliminates manual product handling," said Gideon Lask, HMV E-Commerce Director. "This is exactly what we now have. Once the products are fed into the packaging system they don't need to be handled again until the mailbags are sorted at the destination depots." More articles from SDI Group UK Limited: | 
