PetCareRx®, Inc., Lynbrook, NY, is a full-service pet pharmacy and pet supply provider. The e-commerce mail order company can deliver a broad range of branded pet medications and health care products promptly and nationwide.
For its shipping operations, PetCareRx associates had been erecting the corrugated shipping cases, printing out barcode labels, manually applying the labels, and stacking the empty cases for conveyance to the production line. The associate would take an invoice/pick document, scan the document, and case label barcode, manually pick the corresponding products, and load them into the shipping cases. Further down the conveyor line, the shipping cases were packed with paper dunnage to cushion the products. Then an automatic taper and label print/apply system would seal the cases and apply the customer shipment location information. From there, the cases would be routed to the proper shipping lane, based on the designated shipping method.
