Glossary

what is goods-to-person?

The concept was made famous by Kiva Systems and its shelf-lifting robots, and the story of how Amazon locked it away is in our Kiva chronicle. Its biggest commercial exponent today is the Geek+ P-Series, with documented jumps from 120 to over 400 picks per hour.

It requires redesigning the picking area around fixed stations, so it competes with collaborative picking depending on your volume: that decision, with numbers, is in the warehouse robotics guide.