Bama Tea Warehouse Picking Optimization Case Study | RiseMind Tech Electronic Picking Solutions
Keywords: RiseMind Tech | Electronic Picking System | Pick-to-Light | Warehouse Digitization | Picking Efficiency
Bama Tea is a well-known Chinese tea brand with a long heritage. Its business covers tea research and development, processing, and sales, with products including black tea, Wuyi rock tea, and Tieguanyin. As its business and sales channels continue to expand, its warehousing operations need to manage a wide variety of products, identify storage locations, and fulfill orders efficiently.
For tea and other consumer-goods warehouses, improving operational efficiency while maintaining picking accuracy and standardized workflows is an important part of warehouse digitalization.
As warehouse operations become more complex, picking methods that rely on manual searching, paper documents, and workers’ experience can present several challenges.
Workers need to use paper picking lists or handheld terminals to look up product information and check SKUs, product names, and storage locations one by one. Without clear visual guidance to the target location, searching and checking can take longer and picking routes can be difficult to optimize.
When operations depend heavily on manual updates, managers may find it difficult to track order progress, staff productivity, and location status in a timely manner. When exceptions such as stockouts or congestion occur, information may not be communicated or handled quickly enough, making on-site coordination more difficult.
New employees need to learn the warehouse layout, product locations, and picking rules before they can complete tasks independently. When staffing changes occur, transferring experience and training new employees can create additional pressure on warehouse operations.
These challenges show that warehouse picking requires not only accurate product information, but also clear on-site guidance and standardized operating procedures.
To address location identification, quantity checking, and operator workflow requirements, RiseMind Tech focuses on electronic-label and pick-to-light technologies. By combining light guidance with digital displays, the solution provides warehouse staff with clear visual assistance and helps improve traditional picking workflows.
Electronic labels use light signals to indicate target storage locations, helping staff identify picking positions more easily. This reduces repeated searching and manual cross-checking and makes the picking process clearer.
Electronic labels equipped with digital displays can present relevant picking information and quantity prompts. This helps workers check the target product and required quantity and reduces the risk of picking errors or omissions caused by insufficient checking or unclear information.
Clear location guidance and displayed information help new employees understand picking tasks, reducing their reliance on memorizing the warehouse layout or on the experience of long-serving staff. This supports more standardized workflows and can help shorten the time needed to become familiar with the job.
By integrating electronic labels into warehouse picking workflows, RiseMind Tech’s solutions can help improve the on-site operating experience and increase the visibility of picking processes.
The electronic picking system implemented in this project delivers the following benefits in picking efficiency, operational accuracy, and employee training.
Light guidance helps workers identify target locations more quickly. The case materials report that picking time was reduced by approximately 30% or more.
Target-location guidance and displayed quantity information help workers verify picking tasks. The case materials report that the error rate could be reduced to below 0.1%.
Visual guidance reduces new employees’ dependence on memorizing the warehouse layout and on the experience of skilled workers. The case materials report that training time could be reduced from several days to several hours.
Digital picking prompts help standardize work instructions and reduce reliance on individual memory and manual searching, supporting on-site management and warehouse-process optimization.
Warehouse picking efficiency depends not only on how quickly employees work, but also on how location information is presented, how clearly picking tasks are communicated, and how consistently procedures are followed.
RiseMind Tech focuses on the digitalization and visualization of warehouse operations. Its solutions include electronic labels, pick-to-light systems, and related supporting equipment for warehouse applications. By integrating on-site guidance with warehouse workflows, these solutions help businesses explore clearer and more standardized picking methods and support further process optimization and digital transformation.
The Bama Tea case illustrates the value of electronic picking technology in warehouses that handle a wide range of products. By combining light guidance, digital information displays, and standardized workflows, an electronic picking system can help address time-consuming location searches, the burden of manual checking, and lengthy employee training.
For businesses seeking to improve warehouse picking efficiency and on-site process visibility, electronic labels and pick-to-light technology can be considered as part of a warehouse digitalization strategy.
RiseMind Tech is committed to providing electronic-label and pick-to-light solutions for warehouse operations. If you are planning to optimize picking workflows or evaluate equipment configurations, contact RiseMind Tech to discuss your application requirements and solution options.
