Sustained growth over the past years has resulted in an increase in the number of SKUs that ASCO needed to handle in their warehouse and distribution center. NEPTEK, a leading material handling company in South Africa, had the best overall solution in terms of conveying equipment, track and trace systems and interfaces with ASCO’s WMS.
The conveyor system is installed along the carton flow picking faces with automatic diverting to seven pick face zones. Carton boxes are then conveyed to an inline weighing station that checks the actual mass against the theoretical mass in the database and rejects the carton to QC if it is not within the required weight tolerance.