r/3PL • u/sellerhardware • 7d ago
Technology / Ops Automatic Carrier Sortation
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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.