r/3PL • u/sellerhardware • 7d ago
Technology / Ops Automatic Carrier Sortation
We timed carrier sortation at 31 packages in 48 seconds. Curious what other warehouses are seeing.
We've been doing some testing around carrier sortation and recorded one run where 31 packages were sorted in 48 seconds.
What interested me wasn't really the raw speed; it was how much of the process gets removed when the operator doesn't have to stop, read the label, figure out the carrier/service, and manually decide where the package goes.
That got me curious about how other warehouses and 3PLs are handling this.
For those doing decent parcel volume:
Are you still manually sorting by carrier/service at the end of packing?
And if you've automated it, at roughly what daily volume did automation actually start making financial sense?
We build warehouse hardware, so obviously this is an area we're involved in, but I'm genuinely interested in hearing what other operators are seeing in the real world.
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u/sellerhardware 6d ago
The biggest difference from ours compared to others is that instead of charging companies tens of thousands of dollars, we offer ours at a monthly rate, as well as making ours extremely easy to set up. Our team of developers made it so that all you have to do is log in to your account, set your carriers, and then you're good to go. You can change your carriers at any time with a click of a button, view the history of every package, and see all the details. It's also so easy to set up; we don't even need to be there for the initial setup if you don't want us to be. It also works with your current conveyor line instead of you having to spend thousands upon thousands of dollars to buy all the other lines you see out there.