logistics_ops · healthcare · workflow
Medifast streamlines warehouse pick-and-pack with Blue Yonder Warehouse Management
Medifast employees hand-selected boxes and two employees were needed to scan, weigh, and apply shipping labels, causing excessive void fill use, repacking delays, and wasted labor from double-touching products through totes before they reached the shipping box.
How it works
Common implementation structure
How this type of workflow is generally built, generalized across documented cases — not tied to any one vendor's stack. Click any stage to read what happens there. Specific products that implement these stages appear in “Tools commonly seen” below.
Stage 1 · Load product data into WMS
Product weights and dimensions are loaded into the Warehouse Management System.
Tools used
Blue Yonder Warehouse Management
Outcome
Medifast employees now work in real-time from a direct-to-work queue, eliminating double-touch picking, reducing overall time to ship and labor costs, and increasing margin.
Results
Time savedreducing overall time to ship
Cost replacedreducing... labor costs
Grounding & classification
Source type: vendor customer story
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