Germantown, WI -- (SBWIRE) -- 11/10/2010 -- For over twenty-five years and across more than five hundred installations worldwide, Lightning Pick Technologies has delivered advanced order picking technologies on time, on budget, every time. Lightning Pick has best-in-class applications for Pick to Light, Put to Light, Pack to Light (Put to Store) Voice and RF systems support lean supply chain processes from manufacturing through order fulfillment. As a result, Lightning Pick clients improve their level of service, achieve superior order quality, and advance their positions in the market. Build-to-Light is an important cost-effective advancement.

A seven minute video presentation of this technology is profiled in this issue of Warehouse Distribution Software and allows viewer to fully comprehend the scope and importance of this extraordinary technology. http://www.warehousingsoftware.net/2010/10/lightning-pick-pack-to-light/ Bernie McCabe, a senior executive with Lightning Pick discusses the importance of Pick-to-Light and Pack-to-Light solutions. According to McCabe, "Not all Put-to-Light applications are the same. LP Pack provides a highly sophisticated Put-to-Light solution specifically engineered for distribution centers servicing retail stores. Also called Pack-to-Light or Put-to-Store, LP Pack is ideal for retail store replenishment order fulfillment and optimizes cross-docking operations where a percentage of full case quantities are broken down to store level cartons. Watch step-by-step as a case of product arrives to the break pack area. An operator scans the case and lights illuminate to direct them to quickly sort the product to the right store carton and in the right unit quantities. The product is 'put' to the store carton and the light module extinguished to confirm the activity was completed."

In 1998 Lightning Pick introduced duct-based Pick to Light technology to the United States. These cable-free light modules retrofit to a rack, shelf, cart or other material handling storage media. The new track-lighting style hardware lowered installation costs and is more flexible for system reconfiguration, maintenance, and expansion. Cable-free displays are the industry standard, but distributors still sought after a means of applying Pick to Light speed and accuracy to operations that did not have the infrastructure for mounted lights.

Lightning Pick Technologies
http://www.lightningpick.com
Joe Pelej
joe.pelej@lightningpick.com
262-250-2143

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Germantown, WI -- (SBWIRE) -- 11/05/2010 -- The newest development in supply-chain efficiency techniques and tools is "build to light," used by build-to-order and assemble-to-order manufacturers. Lightning Pick is the exclusive developer of Build to Light technology. Build to light is the latest generation of what is commonly referred to as "pick to light," a light-directed, error-proofing system that reduces errors within critical procedures such as parts picking, kitting, assembly, and sequencing, among others. Pick-to-light systems have been around for more than 30 years. Lights mounted on workstations, bin shelving, or other material storage media direct operators to the correct parts, quantities, and sequences to execute their task with greater accuracy than paper-based methods.

Manufacturing journalist TR Cutler reviewed Pick to Light technologies for the current issue of Quality Digest. In the feature article Cutler explores how Build-to-Light systems keep profit margins from eroding, and how generation of pick-to-light systems meet today's custom manufacturing needs.

In late August, Sarah E. Needleman profiled in the Wall Street Journal that entrepreneurial manufacturers are experiencing a demand for made-to-order goods. In her feature titled, "'Custom' is Customary," Needleman hop-scotches through a variety of businesses from Create-a-mattress.com to Panraven, a 3-year-old customer photo-scrapbooking business.

Along with these customized products and one-at-a-time customer orders comes not only the opportunity for increased profit margin but also the potential for dissatisfied clients if the fulfillment process is lacking or mispicked. Returned materials, and the corrective actions and express shipping that result, can consume all the profit-margin benefits of a customer build-to-order operation.

However, with the increasing demand for customizable manufacturing throughout the supply chain, a newer pick-to-light technology is needed, one that can pioneer the next generation of cost-effective picking solutions. Build to light is that technology.

About Lightning Pick
For over 25 years and across 500 installations worldwide, Lightning Pick Technologies (www.lightningpick.com) has delivered advanced order picking technologies on time, on budget, every time. Lightning Pick has best-in-class applications for Pick to Light, Put to Light, Pack to Light (Put to Store) Voice and RF systems support lean supply chain processes from manufacturing through order fulfillment. As a result, Lightning Pick clients improve their level of service, achieve superior order quality, and advance their positions in the market.

Lightning Pick Technologies
http://www.lightningpick.com
Joe Pelej
joe.pelej@lightningpick.com
262-250-2143

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Germantown, WI -- (SBWIRE) -- 11/05/2010 -- A seven minute video presentation of this technology is profiled in this issue of Warehouse Distribution Software and allows viewer to fully comprehend the scope and importance of this extraordinary technology. http://www.warehousingsoftware.net/2010/10/lightning-pick-pack-to-light/ Bernie McCabe, a senior executive with Lightning Pick discusses the importance of Pick-to-Light and Pack-to-Light solutions. According to McCabe, "Not all Put-to-Light applications are the same. LP Pack provides a highly sophisticated Put-to-Light solution specifically engineered for distribution centers servicing retail stores. Also called Pack-to-Light or Put-to-Store, LP Pack is ideal for retail store replenishment order fulfillment and optimizes cross-docking operations where a percentage of full case quantities are broken down to store level cartons. Watch step-by-step as a case of product arrives to the break pack area. An operator scans the case and lights illuminate to direct them to quickly sort the product to the right store carton and in the right unit quantities. The product is 'put' to the store carton and the light module extinguished to confirm the activity was completed."

In 1998 Lightning Pick introduced duct-based Pick to Light technology to the United States. These cable-free light modules retrofit to a rack, shelf, cart or other material handling storage media. The new track-lighting style hardware lowered installation costs and is more flexible for system reconfiguration, maintenance, and expansion. Cable-free displays are the industry standard, but distributors still sought after a means of applying Pick to Light speed and accuracy to operations that did not have the infrastructure for mounted lights.

About Lightning Pick
For over twenty-five years and across more than five hundred installations worldwide, Lightning Pick Technologies has delivered advanced order picking technologies on time, on budget, every time. Lightning Pick has best-in-class applications for Pick to Light, Put to Light, Pack to Light (Put to Store) Voice and RF systems support lean supply chain processes from manufacturing through order fulfillment. As a result, Lightning Pick clients improve their level of service, achieve superior order quality, and advance their positions in the market. Build-to-Light is an important cost-effective advancement.

Lightning Pick Technologies
http://www.lightningpick.com
Joe Pelej
joe.pelej@lightningpick.com
262-250-2143

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Germantown, WI -- (SBWIRE) -- 11/05/2010 -- With the increasing demand for customizable manufacturing throughout the supply chain, a newer pick-to-light technology is needed, one that can pioneer the next generation of cost-effective picking solutions. Build to light is that technology. The complete Business Excellence magazine feature article, titled "Supply Chain: Picking Strategies" may be read at http://trcutlerinc.com/business_excellence_2010-10.pdf.

Manufacturing journalist TR Cutler reviewed Pick to Light technologies for the current issue of Business Excellence. In the feature article Cutler explores how Build-to-Light systems keep profit margins from eroding, and how generation of pick-to-light systems meet today's custom manufacturing needs.

The newest development in supply-chain efficiency techniques and tools is "build to light," used by build-to-order and assemble-to-order manufacturers. Lightning Pick is the exclusive developer of Build to Light technology. Build to light is the latest generation of what is commonly referred to as "pick to light," a light-directed, error-proofing system that reduces errors within critical procedures such as parts picking, kitting, assembly, and sequencing, among others. Pick-to-light systems have been around for more than 30 years. Lights mounted on workstations, bin shelving, or other material storage media direct operators to the correct parts, quantities, and sequences to execute their task with greater accuracy than paper-based methods.

About Lightning Pick
For over 25 years and across 500 installations worldwide, Lightning Pick Technologies (http://www.lightningpick.com) has delivered advanced order picking technologies on time, on budget, every time. Lightning Pick has best-in-class applications for Pick to Light, Put to Light, Pack to Light (Put to Store) Voice and RF systems support lean supply chain processes from manufacturing through order fulfillment. As a result, Lightning Pick clients improve their level of service, achieve superior order quality, and advance their positions in the market.

Lightning Pick Technologies
http://www.lightningpick.com
Joe Pelej
joe.pelej@lightningpick.com
262-250-2143

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Germantown, WI -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/29/2010 -- In the current issue of Warehouse Distribution Software, http://www.warehousingsoftware.net/2010/10/lightning-pick-pack-to-light/ Bernie McCabe, a senior executive with Lightning Pick discusses the importance of Pick-to-Light and Pack-to-Light solutions. According to McCabe, "Not all Put-to-Light applications are the same. LP Pack provides a highly sophisticated Put-to-Light solution specifically engineered for distribution centers servicing retail stores. Also called Pack-to-Light or Put-to-Store, LP Pack is ideal for retail store replenishment order fulfillment and optimizes cross-docking operations where a percentage of full case quantities are broken down to store level cartons. Watch step-by-step as a case of product arrives to the break pack area. An operator scans the case and lights illuminate to direct them to quickly sort the product to the right store carton and in the right unit quantities. The product is 'put' to the store carton and the light module extinguished to confirm the activity was completed."

A seven minute video presentation of this technology is profiled in this issue of Warehouse Distribution Software and allows viewer to fully comprehend the scope and importance of this extraordinary technology.

In 1998 Lightning Pick introduced duct-based Pick to Light technology to the United States. These cable-free light modules retrofit to a rack, shelf, cart or other material handling storage media. The new track-lighting style hardware lowered installation costs and is more flexible for system reconfiguration, maintenance, and expansion. Cable-free displays are the industry standard, but distributors still sought after a means of applying Pick to Light speed and accuracy to operations that did not have the infrastructure for mounted lights.

About Lightning Pick
For over twenty-five years and across more than five hundred installations worldwide, Lightning Pick Technologies has delivered advanced order picking technologies on time, on budget, every time. Lightning Pick has best-in-class applications for Pick to Light, Put to Light, Pack to Light (Put to Store) Voice and RF systems support lean supply chain processes from manufacturing through order fulfillment. As a result, Lightning Pick clients improve their level of service, achieve superior order quality, and advance their positions in the market. Build-to-Light is an important cost-effective advancement.

Lightning Pick Technologies
http://www.lightningpick.com
Joe Pelej
joe.pelej@lightningpick.com
262-250-2143

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Germantown, WI -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/29/2010 -- The newest development in supply-chain efficiency techniques and tools is "build to light," used by build-to-order and assemble-to-order manufacturers. Lightning Pick is the exclusive developer of Build to Light technology. Build to light is the latest generation of what is commonly referred to as "pick to light," a light-directed, error-proofing system that reduces errors within critical procedures such as parts picking, kitting, assembly, and sequencing, among others. Pick-to-light systems have been around for more than 30 years. Lights mounted on workstations, bin shelving, or other material storage media direct operators to the correct parts, quantities, and sequences to execute their task with greater accuracy than paper-based methods.

Manufacturing journalist TR Cutler reviewed Pick to Light technologies for the current issue of Business Excellence. In the feature article Cutler explores how Build-to-Light systems keep profit margins from eroding, and how generation of pick-to-light systems meet today's custom manufacturing needs.

However, with the increasing demand for customizable manufacturing throughout the supply chain, a newer pick-to-light technology is needed, one that can pioneer the next generation of cost-effective picking solutions. Build to light is that technology. The complete Business Excellence magazine feature article, titled "Supply Chain: Picking Strategies" may be read at http://trcutlerinc.com/business_excellence_2010-10.pdf.

About Lightning Pick
For over 25 years and across 500 installations worldwide, Lightning Pick Technologies (http://www.lightningpick.com) has delivered advanced order picking technologies on time, on budget, every time. Lightning Pick has best-in-class applications for Pick to Light, Put to Light, Pack to Light (Put to Store) Voice and RF systems support lean supply chain processes from manufacturing through order fulfillment. As a result, Lightning Pick clients improve their level of service, achieve superior order quality, and advance their positions in the market.

Lightning Pick Technologies
http://www.lightningpick.com
Joe Pelej
joe.pelej@lightningpick.com
262-250-2143

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Germantown, WI -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/28/2010 -- Lightning Pick's Pick to Light technologies are profiled by manufacturing journalist TR Cutler in the current issue of Logistics Week. In the feature article Cutler explores how Charlotte Russe operates over 500 stores throughout 45 states and Puerto Rico. Charlotte Russe stores deliver style in clothing and accessories, providing an exciting, fashionable assortment of merchandise that compliments virtually every facet of their customers' lifestyle. Founded in 1975, their stores provide fashion and lifestyle needs of young, fashion-conscious women in their teens and early twenties, offering trend right apparel and accessories at value prices. In addition to a wide selection of apparel, Charlotte Russe also offers a full range of accessories and footwear, helping customers to easily compliment their apparel selections.

To meet the demands of their growing supply chain, Charlotte Russe selected the Warehouse Management for iSeries solution from Manhattan Associates an optimized Charlotte Russe's receiving, inventory, planning and replenishment processes to efficiently support their retail store growth. Charlotte Russe's Ontario distribution center also installed a Pack-to-Light solution from Lightning Pick Technologies (www.lightningpick.com.)

"Our expansion strategy challenged us to support our news stores and meet the rising replenishment order volumes. Lightning Pick Technologies' Pack-to-Light solution immediately helped us push merchandise out to our stores faster, and get it in front of customers where it belongs," noted Chris Monier, VP of Distribution and Logistics. Monier went on to say, "The intuitive, visual sortation approach also made training new employees exceptionally simple. Within a few hours we can have new operators actively using the Pack-to-Light system to quickly break down full cases of product into individual store boxes."

Sometimes called a Put-to-Light or Put-to-Store system, Pack-to-Light was ideal for Charlotte's flow-through retail store replenishment approach. The Pack-to-Light process is simple and effective. Manhattan's WM conveys full cases of inventory to the correct pack area, where operators use the fully integrated Lightning Pick system to break them down to less-than-case-quantities for individual retail stores. The operators scan the full case of product with a cordless RF unit. Next, light modules illuminate at store boxes requiring that item, and direct the quantity needed for each. Different colored LEDs (red and green) direct operators to store positions/boxes above or below the track of light modules. The operator can quickly and accurately 'put' (or 'pack') the items to that store box, and then extinguish the light to confirm that the sortation was completed. The process repeats until the full case is rapidly emptied, and then another is conveyed to the pack area.

Today, Charlotte Russe maintains an impressive sortation rate regardless of order demand. Throughput for the whole Pack-to-Light system (all six zones) averages 5000 units per hour. During peak season the company processes 9500 units per hour through Lightning Pick, while maintaining a 99% accuracy rate. The solution is intuitive…a visual sortation approach makes new employee training exceptionally simple, while the Pack-to-Light approach has increased the speed and quality of Charlotte's order processing for reliable store replenishment.

About Lightning Pick
For over 25 years and across 500 installations worldwide, Lightning Pick Technologies has delivered advanced order picking technologies on time, on budget, every time. Lightning Pick has best-in-class applications for Pick to Light, Put to Light, Pack to Light (Put to Store) Voice and RF systems support lean supply chain processes from manufacturing through order fulfillment. As a result, Lightning Pick clients improve their level of service, achieve superior order quality, and advance their positions in the market.

Lightning Pick Technologies
http://www.lightningpick.com
Joe Pelej
joe.pelej@lightningpick.com
262-250-2143

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Germantown, WI -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/28/2010 -- In late August, Sarah E. Needleman profiled in the Wall Street Journal that entrepreneurial manufacturers are experiencing a demand for made-to-order goods. In her feature titled, "'Custom' is Customary," Needleman hop-scotches through a variety of businesses from Create-a-mattress.com to Panraven, a 3-year-old customer photo-scrapbooking business.

Manufacturing journalist TR Cutler reviewed Pick to Light technologies for the current issue of Quality Digest. In the feature article Cutler explores how Build-to-Light systems keep profit margins from eroding, and how generation of pick-to-light systems meet today's custom manufacturing needs.

Along with these customized products and one-at-a-time customer orders comes not only the opportunity for increased profit margin but also the potential for dissatisfied clients if the fulfillment process is lacking or mispicked. Returned materials, and the corrective actions and express shipping that result, can consume all the profit-margin benefits of a customer build-to-order operation.

The newest development in supply-chain efficiency techniques and tools is "build to light," used by build-to-order and assemble-to-order manufacturers. Lightning Pick is the exclusive developer of Build to Light technology. Build to light is the latest generation of what is commonly referred to as "pick to light," a light-directed, error-proofing system that reduces errors within critical procedures such as parts picking, kitting, assembly, and sequencing, among others. Pick-to-light systems have been around for more than 30 years. Lights mounted on workstations, bin shelving, or other material storage media direct operators to the correct parts, quantities, and sequences to execute their task with greater accuracy than paper-based methods.

However, with the increasing demand for customizable manufacturing throughout the supply chain, a newer pick-to-light technology is needed, one that can pioneer the next generation of cost-effective picking solutions. Build to light is that technology.

About Lightning Pick
For over 25 years and across 500 installations worldwide, Lightning Pick Technologies (www.lightningpick.com) has delivered advanced order picking technologies on time, on budget, every time. Lightning Pick has best-in-class applications for Pick to Light, Put to Light, Pack to Light (Put to Store) Voice and RF systems support lean supply chain processes from manufacturing through order fulfillment. As a result, Lightning Pick clients improve their level of service, achieve superior order quality, and advance their positions in the market.

Lightning Pick Technologies
http://www.lightningpick.com
Joe Pelej
joe.pelej@lightningpick.com
262-250-2143

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Germantown, WI -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/26/2010 -- SupplyChainBrain is the world's most comprehensive information resource for supply chain news, intelligence, strategy and innovation. In addition to the fundamental principles of supply-chain management, SupplyChainBrain identifies emerging trends, technologies and best practices, forward thinking ideas and cutting-edge solutions—and continues to write and report about these as they evolve and mature. SupplyChainBrain targets the high-level executive, who is concerned with such strategic issues as managing risk, aligning the supply chain with corporate planning, achieving competitive advantage, balancing customer demands with the need to control cost, and improving the bottom line.

SupplyChainBrain.com announced the top 100 Great Supply Chain Partners. Lightning Pick Technologies (www.lightningpick.com) was one of the recognized leaders. The special issue celebrates those companies that have been nominated by their partners as deserving recognition because the product or service has been of great value. Whether in logistics, technology or consulting, these 100 selected companies aided, advanced, and improved the supply chain management of clients.

SupplyChainBrain's 8th Annual 100 Great Supply Chain Partners Program is the result of a six-month on-line poll in which supply chain professionals are asked to nominate vendors and service providers whose solutions have made a significant impact on their company's efficiency, customer service and overall supply chain performance.

"In 2010, we received more than 2,800 nominations from small and large companies covering scores of different industries," states Brad Berger, publisher of SupplyChainBrain. "More than 600 vendors of every conceivable type of supply chain activity were nominated - from very specialized technologies, to a wide range of third-party logistics, transportation and consulting services. The 100 companies that received the most qualified nominations are represented on this year's list which is published within the July issue of SupplyChainBrain's magazine and on SupplyChainBrain.com for the remainder of 2010."

Lightning Pick Technologies was recognized as one of the Top 100 Great Supply Chain Partners by SupplyChainBrain.com. Feedback from clients included:

- 'The technical support we receive is second to none! Always super-fast and accurate.'

- 'Awesome service on the phone and by remote connectivity. It's as if they are on-site.'

- 'Their folks were, and still are, great to deal with. I recommend their product to everyone interested in pick-to-light for flow racks.'

About Lightning Pick Technologies
For over 25 years and across 500 installations worldwide, Lightning Pick Technologies has delivered advanced order picking technologies on time, on budget, every time. Lightning Pick has best-in-class applications for Pick to Light, Put to Light, Pack to Light (Put to Store) Voice and RF systems support lean supply chain processes from manufacturing through order fulfillment. As a result, Lightning Pick clients improve their level of service, achieve superior order quality, and advance their positions in the market.

Lightning Pick Technologies
http://www.lightningpick.com
Joe Pelej
joe.pelej@lightningpick.com
262-250-2143

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Germantown, WI -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/15/2010 -- All Lightning Pick hardware runs on an integrated network that has been tested and proven by recognized leaders in material handling excellence. With over 500,000 live light devices installed, Lightning Pick is the number one provider of light-directed systems in North America.

There have been many breakthroughs in light-directed order fulfillment technologies which strongly differentiate the more sophisticated systems of today from their legacy counterparts. In the September issue of Modern Material Handling Lightning Pick is cited by Sara Pearson Specter, Editor at Large. In the article Spector suggest that the trend toward multi-modal picking has turned many pick-to-light suppliers into picking solution providers— who offer a complete package combining pick to light, voice and hand-held RF devices to run on a single, unified warehouse control system (WCS) that communicates with the warehouse management system (WMS).

"Vendors are also providing users with the ability to pull more information directly from the pick-to-light system. There's been an increased emphasis on dashboards and remote reporting for specific monitoring of picking productivity and enhanced labor tracking," noted Jim Bast, general manager of Lightning Pick Technologies (262-250-2100, www.lightningpick.com). "They go back to the WMS to get broader information, but if they want to focus specifically on picking, now they have the tools to see that."

Spector suggested that dashboard reporting directly from the pick-to-light system can be monitored within a single facility, or compared to data from other facilities in the network for an enterprise-level view of picking metrics.

Pick-to-light hardware itself has evolved. While its functionality remains the same—an indicator light illuminates, corresponding numbers display pick quantity, and the picker Because it's a visual system, pick to light delivers efficient, productive picking. Additionally, by avoiding any language barriers lights are easier to train on than voice, making it ideal for use by seasonal workers.

Over the years 'Pick-to-Light' has become the generic industry term encompassing all light-directed order selection and sortation systems, differentiating the overall approach from paper-based picking, RF picking, voice-directed picking and other methods. Even users of Put-to-Light for direct-to-consumer fulfillment or retail store replenishment operations (sometimes called Pack-to-Light) often recognize themselves as ultimately being part of the Pick-to-Light universe. The emerging term 'Build to Light' distinguishes light-directed systems used specifically to enhance production related processes from Pick to Light solutions developed to meet warehousing and fulfillment challenges.

About Lightning Pick
For over 25 years and across 500 installations worldwide, Lightning Pick Technologies has delivered advanced order picking technologies on time, on budget, every time. Lightning Pick has best-in-class applications for Pick to Light, Put to Light, Pack to Light (Put to Store) Voice and RF systems support lean supply chain processes from manufacturing through order fulfillment. As a result, Lightning Pick clients improve their level of service, achieve superior order quality, and advance their positions in the market. Build-to-Light is an important cost-effective advancement.

Lightning Pick Technologies
http://www.lightningpick.com
Joe Pelej
joe.pelej@lightningpick.com
262-250-2143

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Germantown, WI -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/14/2010 -- To meet the demands of their growing supply chain, Charlotte Russe selected the Warehouse Management for iSeries solution from Manhattan Associates an optimized Charlotte Russe's receiving, inventory, planning and replenishment processes to efficiently support their retail store growth. Charlotte Russe's Ontario distribution center also installed a Pack-to-Light solution from Lightning Pick Technologies (http://www.lightningpick.com.)

Manufacturing journalist TR Cutler looked at Pick to Light technologies in the current issue of Logistics Week. In the feature article Cutler explores how Charlotte Russe operates over 500 stores throughout 45 states and Puerto Rico. Charlotte Russe stores deliver style in clothing and accessories, providing an exciting, fashionable assortment of merchandise that compliments virtually every facet of their customers' lifestyle. Founded in 1975, their stores provide fashion and lifestyle needs of young, fashion-conscious women in their teens and early twenties, offering trend right apparel and accessories at value prices. In addition to a wide selection of apparel, Charlotte Russe also offers a full range of accessories and footwear, helping customers to easily compliment their apparel selections.

"Our expansion strategy challenged us to support our news stores and meet the rising replenishment order volumes. Lightning Pick Technologies' Pack-to-Light solution immediately helped us push merchandise out to our stores faster, and get it in front of customers where it belongs," noted Chris Monier, VP of Distribution and Logistics. Monier went on to say, "The intuitive, visual sortation approach also made training new employees exceptionally simple. Within a few hours we can have new operators actively using the Pack-to-Light system to quickly break down full cases of product into individual store boxes."

Sometimes called a Put-to-Light or Put-to-Store system, Pack-to-Light was ideal for Charlotte's flow-through retail store replenishment approach. The Pack-to-Light process is simple and effective. Manhattan's WM conveys full cases of inventory to the correct pack area, where operators use the fully integrated Lightning Pick system to break them down to less-than-case-quantities for individual retail stores. The operators scan the full case of product with a cordless RF unit. Next, light modules illuminate at store boxes requiring that item, and direct the quantity needed for each. Different colored LEDs (red and green) direct operators to store positions/boxes above or below the track of light modules. The operator can quickly and accurately 'put' (or 'pack') the items to that store box, and then extinguish the light to confirm that the sortation was completed. The process repeats until the full case is rapidly emptied, and then another is conveyed to the pack area.

Today, Charlotte Russe maintains an impressive sortation rate regardless of order demand. Throughput for the whole Pack-to-Light system (all six zones) averages 5000 units per hour. During peak season the company processes 9500 units per hour through Lightning Pick, while maintaining a 99% accuracy rate. The solution is intuitive…a visual sortation approach makes new employee training exceptionally simple, while the Pack-to-Light approach has increased the speed and quality of Charlotte's order processing for reliable store replenishment.

About Lightning Pick
For over 25 years and across 500 installations worldwide, Lightning Pick Technologies has delivered advanced order picking technologies on time, on budget, every time. Lightning Pick has best-in-class applications for Pick to Light, Put to Light, Pack to Light (Put to Store) Voice and RF systems support lean supply chain processes from manufacturing through order fulfillment. As a result, Lightning Pick clients improve their level of service, achieve superior order quality, and advance their positions in the market.

Lightning Pick Technologies
http://www.lightningpick.com
Joe Pelej
joe.pelej@lightningpick.com
262-250-2143

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Germantown, WI -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/14/2010 -- Manufacturing journalist TR Cutler reviewed Pick to Light technologies for the current issue of Quality Digest. In the feature article Cutler explores how Build-to-Light systems keep profit margins from eroding, and how generation of pick-to-light systems meet today's custom manufacturing needs.

In late August, Sarah E. Needleman profiled in the Wall Street Journal that entrepreneurial manufacturers are experiencing a demand for made-to-order goods. In her feature titled, "'Custom' is Customary," Needleman hop-scotches through a variety of businesses from Create-a-mattress.com to Panraven, a 3-year-old customer photo-scrapbooking business.

Along with these customized products and one-at-a-time customer orders comes not only the opportunity for increased profit margin but also the potential for dissatisfied clients if the fulfillment process is lacking or mispicked. Returned materials, and the corrective actions and express shipping that result, can consume all the profit-margin benefits of a customer build-to-order operation.

The newest development in supply-chain efficiency techniques and tools is "build to light," used by build-to-order and assemble-to-order manufacturers. Lightning Pick is the exclusive developer of Build to Light technology. Build to light is the latest generation of what is commonly referred to as "pick to light," a light-directed, error-proofing system that reduces errors within critical procedures such as parts picking, kitting, assembly, and sequencing, among others. Pick-to-light systems have been around for more than 30 years. Lights mounted on workstations, bin shelving, or other material storage media direct operators to the correct parts, quantities, and sequences to execute their task with greater accuracy than paper-based methods.

However, with the increasing demand for customizable manufacturing throughout the supply chain, a newer pick-to-light technology is needed, one that can pioneer the next generation of cost-effective picking solutions. Build to light is that technology.

About Lightning Pick
For over 25 years and across 500 installations worldwide, Lightning Pick Technologies (http://www.lightningpick.com) has delivered advanced order picking technologies on time, on budget, every time. Lightning Pick has best-in-class applications for Pick to Light, Put to Light, Pack to Light (Put to Store) Voice and RF systems support lean supply chain processes from manufacturing through order fulfillment. As a result, Lightning Pick clients improve their level of service, achieve superior order quality, and advance their positions in the market.

Lightning Pick Technologies
http://www.lightningpick.com
Joe Pelej
joe.pelej@lightningpick.com
262-250-2143

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Germantown, WI -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/13/2010 -- Manufacturing journalist TR Cutler reviewed Pick to Light technologies for the current issue of Business Excellence. In the feature article Cutler explores how Build-to-Light systems keep profit margins from eroding, and how generation of pick-to-light systems meet today's custom manufacturing needs.

The newest development in supply-chain efficiency techniques and tools is "build to light," used by build-to-order and assemble-to-order manufacturers. Lightning Pick is the exclusive developer of Build to Light technology. Build to light is the latest generation of what is commonly referred to as "pick to light," a light-directed, error-proofing system that reduces errors within critical procedures such as parts picking, kitting, assembly, and sequencing, among others. Pick-to-light systems have been around for more than 30 years. Lights mounted on workstations, bin shelving, or other material storage media direct operators to the correct parts, quantities, and sequences to execute their task with greater accuracy than paper-based methods.

However, with the increasing demand for customizable manufacturing throughout the supply chain, a newer pick-to-light technology is needed, one that can pioneer the next generation of cost-effective picking solutions. Build to light is that technology. The complete Business Excellence magazine feature article, titled "Supply Chain: Picking Strategies" may be read at http://trcutlerinc.com/business_excellence_2010-10.pdf.

About Lightning Pick
For over 25 years and across 500 installations worldwide, Lightning Pick Technologies (http://www.lightningpick.com) has delivered advanced order picking technologies on time, on budget, every time. Lightning Pick has best-in-class applications for Pick to Light, Put to Light, Pack to Light (Put to Store) Voice and RF systems support lean supply chain processes from manufacturing through order fulfillment. As a result, Lightning Pick clients improve their level of service, achieve superior order quality, and advance their positions in the market.

Lightning Pick Technologies
http://www.lightningpick.com
Joe Pelej
joe.pelej@lightningpick.com
262-250-2143

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Germantown, WI -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/07/2010 -- SupplyChainBrain's 8th Annual 100 Great Supply Chain Partners Program is the result of a six-month on-line poll in which supply chain professionals are asked to nominate vendors and service providers whose solutions have made a significant impact on their company's efficiency, customer service and overall supply chain performance.

SupplyChainBrain.com announced the top 100 Great Supply Chain Partners. Lightning Pick Technologies (http://www.lightningpick.com) was one of the recognized leaders. The special issue celebrates those companies that have been nominated by their partners as deserving recognition because the product or service has been of great value. Whether in logistics, technology or consulting, these 100 selected companies aided, advanced, and improved the supply chain management of clients.

"In 2010, we received more than 2,800 nominations from small and large companies covering scores of different industries," states Brad Berger, publisher of SupplyChainBrain. "More than 600 vendors of every conceivable type of supply chain activity were nominated - from very specialized technologies, to a wide range of third-party logistics, transportation and consulting services. The 100 companies that received the most qualified nominations are represented on this year's list which is published within the July issue of SupplyChainBrain's magazine and on SupplyChainBrain.com for the remainder of 2010."

About SupplyChainBrain – http://www.supplychainbrain.com
SupplyChainBrain is the world's most comprehensive information resource for supply chain news, intelligence, strategy and innovation. In addition to the fundamental principles of supply-chain management, SupplyChainBrain identifies emerging trends, technologies and best practices, forward thinking ideas and cutting-edge solutions—and continues to write and report about these as they evolve and mature. SupplyChainBrain targets the high-level executive, who is concerned with such strategic issues as managing risk, aligning the supply chain with corporate planning, achieving competitive advantage, balancing customer demands with the need to control cost, and improving the bottom line.

Lightning Pick Technologies was recognized as one of the Top 100 Great Supply Chain Partners by SupplyChainBrain.com. Feedback from clients included:

- 'The technical support we receive is second to none! Always super-fast and accurate.'
- 'Awesome service on the phone and by remote connectivity. It's as if they are on-site.'
- 'Their folks were, and still are, great to deal with. I recommend their product to everyone interested in pick-to-light for flow racks.'

About Lightning Pick Technologies
For over 25 years and across 500 installations worldwide, Lightning Pick Technologies has delivered advanced order picking technologies on time, on budget, every time. Lightning Pick has best-in-class applications for Pick to Light, Put to Light, Pack to Light (Put to Store) Voice and RF systems support lean supply chain processes from manufacturing through order fulfillment. As a result, Lightning Pick clients improve their level of service, achieve superior order quality, and advance their positions in the market.

Lightning Pick Technologies
http://www.lightningpick.com
Joe Pelej
joe.pelej@lightningpick.com
262-250-2143

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Germantown, WI -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/06/2010 -- Pick-to-light hardware itself has evolved. While its functionality remains the same—an indicator light illuminates, corresponding numbers display pick quantity, and the picker Because it's a visual system, pick to light delivers efficient, productive picking. Additionally, by avoiding any language barriers lights are easier to train on than voice, making it ideal for use by seasonal workers.

There have been many breakthroughs in light-directed order fulfillment technologies which strongly differentiate the more sophisticated systems of today from their legacy counterparts. In the September issue of Modern Material Handling Lightning Pick is cited by Sara Pearson Specter, Editor at Large. In the article Spector suggest that the trend toward multi-modal picking has turned many pick-to-light suppliers into picking solution providers— who offer a complete package combining pick to light, voice and hand-held RF devices to run on a single, unified warehouse control system (WCS) that communicates with the warehouse management system (WMS).

"Vendors are also providing users with the ability to pull more information directly from the pick-to-light system. There's been an increased emphasis on dashboards and remote reporting for specific monitoring of picking productivity and enhanced labor tracking," noted Jim Bast, general manager of Lightning Pick Technologies (262-250-2100, http://www.lightningpick.com). "They go back to the WMS to get broader information, but if they want to focus specifically on picking, now they have the tools to see that."

Spector suggested that dashboard reporting directly from the pick-to-light system can be monitored within a single facility, or compared to data from other facilities in the network for an enterprise-level view of picking metrics.

All Lightning Pick hardware runs on an integrated network that has been tested and proven by recognized leaders in material handling excellence. With over 500,000 live light devices installed, Lightning Pick is the number one provider of light-directed systems in North America.

Over the years 'Pick-to-Light' has become the generic industry term encompassing all light-directed order selection and sortation systems, differentiating the overall approach from paper-based picking, RF picking, voice-directed picking and other methods. Even users of Put-to-Light for direct-to-consumer fulfillment or retail store replenishment operations (sometimes called Pack-to-Light) often recognize themselves as ultimately being part of the Pick-to-Light universe. The emerging term 'Build to Light' distinguishes light-directed systems used specifically to enhance production related processes from Pick to Light solutions developed to meet warehousing and fulfillment challenges.

About Lightning Pick
For over 25 years and across 500 installations worldwide, Lightning Pick Technologies has delivered advanced order picking technologies on time, on budget, every time. Lightning Pick has best-in-class applications for Pick to Light, Put to Light, Pack to Light (Put to Store) Voice and RF systems support lean supply chain processes from manufacturing through order fulfillment. As a result, Lightning Pick clients improve their level of service, achieve superior order quality, and advance their positions in the market. Build-to-Light is an important cost-effective advancement.

Lightning Pick Technologies
http://www.lightningpick.com
Joe Pelej
joe.pelej@lightningpick.com
262-250-2143

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Germantown, WI -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/05/2010 -- Manufacturing journalist TR Cutler reviewed Pick to Light technologies for the current issue of Logistics Week. In the feature article Cutler explores how Charlotte Russe operates over 500 stores throughout 45 states and Puerto Rico. Charlotte Russe stores deliver style in clothing and accessories, providing an exciting, fashionable assortment of merchandise that compliments virtually every facet of their customers' lifestyle. Founded in 1975, their stores provide fashion and lifestyle needs of young, fashion-conscious women in their teens and early twenties, offering trend right apparel and accessories at value prices. In addition to a wide selection of apparel, Charlotte Russe also offers a full range of accessories and footwear, helping customers to easily compliment their apparel selections.

To meet the demands of their growing supply chain, Charlotte Russe selected the Warehouse Management for iSeries solution from Manhattan Associates an optimized Charlotte Russe's receiving, inventory, planning and replenishment processes to efficiently support their retail store growth. Charlotte Russe's Ontario distribution center also installed a Pack-to-Light solution from Lightning Pick Technologies (www.lightningpick.com.)

"Our expansion strategy challenged us to support our news stores and meet the rising replenishment order volumes. Lightning Pick Technologies' Pack-to-Light solution immediately helped us push merchandise out to our stores faster, and get it in front of customers where it belongs," noted Chris Monier, VP of Distribution and Logistics. Monier went on to say, "The intuitive, visual sortation approach also made training new employees exceptionally simple. Within a few hours we can have new operators actively using the Pack-to-Light system to quickly break down full cases of product into individual store boxes."

Sometimes called a Put-to-Light or Put-to-Store system, Pack-to-Light was ideal for Charlotte's flow-through retail store replenishment approach. The Pack-to-Light process is simple and effective. Manhattan's WM conveys full cases of inventory to the correct pack area, where operators use the fully integrated Lightning Pick system to break them down to less-than-case-quantities for individual retail stores. The operators scan the full case of product with a cordless RF unit. Next, light modules illuminate at store boxes requiring that item, and direct the quantity needed for each. Different colored LEDs (red and green) direct operators to store positions/boxes above or below the track of light modules. The operator can quickly and accurately 'put' (or 'pack') the items to that store box, and then extinguish the light to confirm that the sortation was completed. The process repeats until the full case is rapidly emptied, and then another is conveyed to the pack area.

Today, Charlotte Russe maintains an impressive sortation rate regardless of order demand. Throughput for the whole Pack-to-Light system (all six zones) averages 5000 units per hour. During peak season the company processes 9500 units per hour through Lightning Pick, while maintaining a 99% accuracy rate. The solution is intuitive…a visual sortation approach makes new employee training exceptionally simple, while the Pack-to-Light approach has increased the speed and quality of Charlotte's order processing for reliable store replenishment.

About Lightning Pick
For over 25 years and across 500 installations worldwide, Lightning Pick Technologies has delivered advanced order picking technologies on time, on budget, every time. Lightning Pick has best-in-class applications for Pick to Light, Put to Light, Pack to Light (Put to Store) Voice and RF systems support lean supply chain processes from manufacturing through order fulfillment. As a result, Lightning Pick clients improve their level of service, achieve superior order quality, and advance their positions in the market.

Lightning Pick Technologies
http://www.lightningpick.com
Joe Pelej
joe.pelej@lightningpick.com
262-250-2143

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Germantown, WI -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/01/2010 -- Lightning Pick will honor its customers in a new Hall of Fame. Eligible candidates for the Hall of Fame recognition will include operators, supervisors, managers or executive management who utilize Lightning Pick. Also eligible are Lightning Pick Partners (system integrators, consultants) who have helped successfully integrate Lightning Pick products into larger scope technology systems.

Selection Criteria
The winner(s) will be selected upon exhibiting the most outstanding usage of their Lightning Pick system. Examples of this may include:

Achieving and maintaining high rates of pick rate productivity.

Consistently executing error-free picks for a sustained time period.

Providing notable leadership in the implementation, integration, management, supervision, ongoing training and other operations related to the Lightning Pick system.

Leveraging the unique advanced Lightning Pick applications (such as LP Communicate event notification, LP Notify automated support) to continuously improve overall order fulfillment process.

Being an exceptional advocate for Lightning Pick within a new application, industry, market, or country.

The winner(s) will receive special Lightning Pick Hall of Fame logoed apparel, a Lightning Pick eNewsletter Article, as well as feature articles about the experience with Lightning Pick.

To participate, users of the leading Pick-to-Light solutions provider must create an online candidate application form on http://www.lightningpick.com/HallOfFame.aspx. The final submission due date is Friday, October 29th, 2010.

About Lightning Pick
For over 25 years and across 500 installations worldwide, Lightning Pick Technologies has delivered advanced order picking technologies on time, on budget, every time. Lightning Pick has best-in-class applications for Pick to Light, Put to Light, Pack to Light (Put to Store) Voice and RF systems support lean supply chain processes from manufacturing through order fulfillment. As a result, Lightning Pick clients improve their level of service, achieve superior order quality, and advance their positions in the market. Build-to-Light is an important cost-effective advancement.

Lightning Pick Technologies
http://www.lightningpick.com
Joe Pelej
joe.pelej@lightningpick.com
262-250-2143

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Germantown, WI -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/01/2010 -- There have been many breakthroughs in light-directed order fulfillment technologies which strongly differentiate the more sophisticated systems of today from their legacy counterparts. In the September issue of Modern Material Handling Lightning Pick is cited by Sara Pearson Specter, Editor at Large. In the article Spector suggest that the trend toward multi-modal picking has turned many pick-to-light suppliers into picking solution providers— who offer a complete package combining pick to light, voice and hand-held RF devices to run on a single, unified warehouse control system (WCS) that communicates with the warehouse management system (WMS).

"Vendors are also providing users with the ability to pull more information directly from the pick-to-light system. There's been an increased emphasis on dashboards and remote reporting for specific monitoring of picking productivity and enhanced labor tracking," noted Jim Bast, general manager of Lightning Pick Technologies (262-250-2100, "They go back to the WMS to get broader information, but if they want to focus specifically on picking, now they have the tools to see that."

Spector suggested that dashboard reporting directly from the pick-to-light system can be monitored within a single facility, or compared to data from other facilities in the network for an enterprise-level view of picking metrics.

Pick-to-light hardware itself has evolved. While its functionality remains the same—an indicator light illuminates, corresponding numbers display pick quantity, and the picker Because it's a visual system, pick to light delivers efficient, productive picking. Additionally, by avoiding any language barriers lights are easier to train on than voice, making it ideal for use by seasonal workers.

All Lightning Pick hardware runs on an integrated network that has been tested and proven by recognized leaders in material handling excellence. With over 500,000 live light devices installed, Lightning Pick is the number one provider of light-directed systems in North America.

Over the years 'Pick-to-Light' has become the generic industry term encompassing all light-directed order selection and sortation systems, differentiating the overall approach from paper-based picking, RF picking, voice-directed picking and other methods. Even users of Put-to-Light for direct-to-consumer fulfillment or retail store replenishment operations (sometimes called Pack-to-Light) often recognize themselves as ultimately being part of the Pick-to-Light universe. The emerging term 'Build to Light' distinguishes light-directed systems used specifically to enhance production related processes from Pick to Light solutions developed to meet warehousing and fulfillment challenges.

About Lightning Pick
For over 25 years and across 500 installations worldwide, Lightning Pick Technologies has delivered advanced order picking technologies on time, on budget, every time. Lightning Pick has best-in-class applications for Pick to Light, Put to Light, Pack to Light (Put to Store) Voice and RF systems support lean supply chain processes from manufacturing through order fulfillment. As a result, Lightning Pick clients improve their level of service, achieve superior order quality, and advance their positions in the market. Build-to-Light is an important cost-effective advancement.

Lightning Pick Technologies
http://www.lightningpick.com
Joe Pelej
joe.pelej@lightningpick.com
262-250-2143

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Germantown, WI -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/30/2010 -- SupplyChainBrain.com announced the top 100 Great Supply Chain Partners. Lightning Pick Technologies (www.lightningpick.com) was one of the recognized leaders. The special issue celebrates those companies that have been nominated by their partners as deserving recognition because the product or service has been of great value. Whether in logistics, technology or consulting, these 100 selected companies aided, advanced, and improved the supply chain management of clients.

SupplyChainBrain's 8th Annual 100 Great Supply Chain Partners Program is the result of a six-month on-line poll in which supply chain professionals are asked to nominate vendors and service providers whose solutions have made a significant impact on their company's efficiency, customer service and overall supply chain performance.

"In 2010, we received more than 2,800 nominations from small and large companies covering scores of different industries," states Brad Berger, publisher of SupplyChainBrain. "More than 600 vendors of every conceivable type of supply chain activity were nominated - from very specialized technologies, to a wide range of third-party logistics, transportation and consulting services. The 100 companies that received the most qualified nominations are represented on this year's list which is published within the July issue of SupplyChainBrain's magazine and on SupplyChainBrain.com for the remainder of 2010."

About SupplyChainBrain – http://www.supplychainbrain.com
SupplyChainBrain is the world's most comprehensive information resource for supply chain news, intelligence, strategy and innovation. In addition to the fundamental principles of supply-chain management, SupplyChainBrain identifies emerging trends, technologies and best practices, forward thinking ideas and cutting-edge solutions—and continues to write and report about these as they evolve and mature. SupplyChainBrain targets the high-level executive, who is concerned with such strategic issues as managing risk, aligning the supply chain with corporate planning, achieving competitive advantage, balancing customer demands with the need to control cost, and improving the bottom line.

Lightning Pick Technologies was recognized as one of the Top 100 Great Supply Chain Partners by SupplyChainBrain.com. Feedback from clients included:

- 'The technical support we receive is second to none! Always super-fast and accurate.'
- 'Awesome service on the phone and by remote connectivity. It's as if they are on-site.'
- 'Their folks were, and still are, great to deal with. I recommend their product to everyone interested in pick-to-light for flow racks.'

About Lightning Pick Technologies
For over 25 years and across 500 installations worldwide, Lightning Pick Technologies has delivered advanced order picking technologies on time, on budget, every time. Lightning Pick has best-in-class applications for Pick to Light, Put to Light, Pack to Light (Put to Store) Voice and RF systems support lean supply chain processes from manufacturing through order fulfillment. As a result, Lightning Pick clients improve their level of service, achieve superior order quality, and advance their positions in the market.

Lightning Pick Technologies
http://www.lightningpick.com
Joe Pelej
joe.pelej@lightningpick.com
262-250-2143

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Germantown, WI -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/29/2010 -- There have been many breakthroughs in light-directed order fulfillment technologies which strongly differentiate the more sophisticated systems of today from their legacy counterparts. These new solutions may offer cable-free light module hardware for greater ease in system installation, expansion, re-slotting and maintenance. They may also feature progressive software tools for better management of light-directed picking operations and improved visibility into the productivity of their pick process.

Assembly and Automation Technology Expo is one of North America's largest exhibitions for assembly and automation technology. No matter what product manufactured, Assembly Technology Expo equips attendees with fresh ideas and new technologies to improve the assembly process, increase productivity and exceed customer expectations. The show includes a conference with technical sessions and workshops with expert knowledge to make your assembly processes work better.

The event is being held from September 28 – 30, from 10am – 4pm each day at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center located at 5555 N. River Road Rosemont, IL (just outside of Chicago.)

At the Assembly and Automation Technology Expo (booth #1321), Lightning Pick Technologies (www.LightningPick.com) will introduce, Build to Light, its first Light-directed Error-Proofing System. Lightning Pick Technologies' Build to Light system reduces errors within critical procedures such as parts picking, kitting, assembly and sequencing among others. Lights mounted on workstations, bin shelving or other material storage media direct operators to the correct parts, quantities and sequences to execute their task with greater accuracy than paper-based methods.

In 1998 Lightning Pick introduced bus-based, cable free light module design to the United States. The technology simplified system installation, re-configuration and maintenance and opened up a wider spectrum of flexible application possibilities. Our deep catalog offers many hardware colors, sizes and optional features to provide the perfect hardware for your process requirements. These include light models specifically designed for easy mounting on flat or curved material storage media surfaces.

All Lightning Pick hardware runs on an integrated network that has been tested and proven by recognized leaders in material handling excellence. With over 500,000 live light devices installed, Lightning Pick is the number one provider of light-directed systems in North America.

Over the years 'Pick-to-Light' has become the generic industry term encompassing all light-directed order selection and sortation systems, differentiating the overall approach from paper-based picking, RF picking, voice-directed picking and other methods. Even users of Put-to-Light for direct-to-consumer fulfillment or retail store replenishment operations (sometimes called Pack-to-Light) often recognize themselves as ultimately being part of the Pick-to-Light universe. The emerging term 'Build to Light' distinguishes light-directed systems used specifically to enhance production related processes from Pick to Light solutions developed to meet warehousing and fulfillment challenges.

About Lightning Pick
For over 25 years and across 500 installations worldwide, Lightning Pick Technologies has delivered advanced order picking technologies on time, on budget, every time. Lightning Pick has best-in-class applications for Pick to Light, Put to Light, Pack to Light (Put to Store) Voice and RF systems support lean supply chain processes from manufacturing through order fulfillment. As a result, Lightning Pick clients improve their level of service, achieve superior order quality, and advance their positions in the market. Build-to-Light is an important cost-effective advancement.

Lightning Pick Technologies
http://www.lightningpick.com
Joe Pelej
joe.pelej@lightningpick.com
262-250-2143

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Germantown, WI -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/28/2010 -- Lightning Pick's Pick to Light technologies are profiled by manufacturing journalist TR Cutler in the current issue the WTG Manufacturing and Supply Chain News. In the feature article Cutler explores how Charlotte Russe operates over 500 stores throughout 45 states and Puerto Rico. Charlotte Russe stores deliver style in clothing and accessories, providing an exciting, fashionable assortment of merchandise that compliments virtually every facet of their customers' lifestyle. Founded in 1975, their stores provide fashion and lifestyle needs of young, fashion-conscious women in their teens and early twenties, offering trend right apparel and accessories at value prices. In addition to a wide selection of apparel, Charlotte Russe also offers a full range of accessories and footwear, helping customers to easily compliment their apparel selections.

To meet the demands of their growing supply chain, Charlotte Russe selected the Warehouse Management for iSeries solution from Manhattan Associates an optimized Charlotte Russe's receiving, inventory, planning and replenishment processes to efficiently support their retail store growth. Charlotte Russe's Ontario distribution center also installed a Pack-to-Light solution from Lightning Pick Technologies (www.lightningpick.com.)

"Our expansion strategy challenged us to support our news stores and meet the rising replenishment order volumes. Lightning Pick Technologies' Pack-to-Light solution immediately helped us push merchandise out to our stores faster, and get it in front of customers where it belongs," noted Chris Monier, VP of Distribution and Logistics. Monier went on to say, "The intuitive, visual sortation approach also made training new employees exceptionally simple. Within a few hours we can have new operators actively using the Pack-to-Light system to quickly break down full cases of product into individual store boxes."

Sometimes called a Put-to-Light or Put-to-Store system, Pack-to-Light was ideal for Charlotte's flow-through retail store replenishment approach. The Pack-to-Light process is simple and effective. Manhattan's WM conveys full cases of inventory to the correct pack area, where operators use the fully integrated Lightning Pick system to break them down to less-than-case-quantities for individual retail stores. The operators scan the full case of product with a cordless RF unit. Next, light modules illuminate at store boxes requiring that item, and direct the quantity needed for each. Different colored LEDs (red and green) direct operators to store positions/boxes above or below the track of light modules. The operator can quickly and accurately 'put' (or 'pack') the items to that store box, and then extinguish the light to confirm that the sortation was completed. The process repeats until the full case is rapidly emptied, and then another is conveyed to the pack area.

Today, Charlotte Russe maintains an impressive sortation rate regardless of order demand. Throughput for the whole Pack-to-Light system (all six zones) averages 5000 units per hour. During peak season the company processes 9500 units per hour through Lightning Pick, while maintaining a 99% accuracy rate. The solution is intuitive…a visual sortation approach makes new employee training exceptionally simple, while the Pack-to-Light approach has increased the speed and quality of Charlotte's order processing for reliable store replenishment.

About Lightning Pick
For over 25 years and across 500 installations worldwide, Lightning Pick Technologies has delivered advanced order picking technologies on time, on budget, every time. Lightning Pick has best-in-class applications for Pick to Light, Put to Light, Pack to Light (Put to Store) Voice and RF systems support lean supply chain processes from manufacturing through order fulfillment. As a result, Lightning Pick clients improve their level of service, achieve superior order quality, and advance their positions in the market.

Lightning Pick Technologies
http://www.lightningpick.com
Joe Pelej
joe.pelej@lightningpick.com
262-250-2143

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Lightning Pick Hall of Fame Criteria to Include Consistently Executing Error-Free Picks

Germantown, WI -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/24/2010 -- Lightning Pick will honor its customers in a new Hall of Fame. Eligible candidates for the Hall of Fame recognition will include operators, supervisors, managers or executive management who utilize Lightning Pick. Also eligible are Lightning Pick Partners (system integrators, consultants) who have helped successfully integrate Lightning Pick products into larger scope technology systems.

Selection Criteria
The winner(s) will be selected upon exhibiting the most outstanding usage of their Lightning Pick system. Examples of this may include:
Achieving and maintaining high rates of pick rate productivity.
Consistently executing error-free picks for a sustained time period.
Providing notable leadership in the implementation, integration, management, supervision, ongoing training and other operations related to the Lightning Pick system.
Leveraging the unique advanced Lightning Pick applications (such as LP Communicate event notification, LP Notify automated support) to continuously improve overall order fulfillment process.

Being an exceptional advocate for Lightning Pick within a new application, industry, market, or country.

The winner(s) will receive special Lightning Pick Hall of Fame logoed apparel, a Lightning Pick eNewsletter Article, as well as feature articles about the experience with Lightning Pick.

To participate, users of the leading Pick-to-Light solutions provider must create an online candidate application form on http://www.lightningpick.com/HallOfFame.aspx. The final submission due date is Friday, October 29th, 2010.

About Lightning Pick
For over 25 years and across 500 installations worldwide, Lightning Pick Technologies has delivered advanced order picking technologies on time, on budget, every time. Lightning Pick has best-in-class applications for Pick to Light, Put to Light, Pack to Light (Put to Store) Voice and RF systems support lean supply chain processes from manufacturing through order fulfillment. As a result, Lightning Pick clients improve their level of service, achieve superior order quality, and advance their positions in the market. Build-to-Light is an important cost-effective advancement.

Lightning Pick Technologies
http://www.lightningpick.com
Joe Pelej
joe.pelej@lightningpick.com
262-250-2143

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Germantown, WI -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/24/2010 -- Over the years 'Pick-to-Light' has become the generic industry term encompassing all light-directed order selection and sortation systems, differentiating the overall approach from paper-based picking, RF picking, voice-directed picking and other methods. Even users of Put-to-Light for direct-to-consumer fulfillment or retail store replenishment operations (sometimes called Pack-to-Light) often recognize themselves as ultimately being part of the Pick-to-Light universe. The emerging term 'Build to Light' distinguishes light-directed systems used specifically to enhance production related processes from Pick to Light solutions developed to meet warehousing and fulfillment challenges.

Assembly and Automation Technology Expo is one of North America's largest exhibitions for assembly and automation technology. No matter what product manufactured, Assembly Technology Expo equips attendees with fresh ideas and new technologies to improve the assembly process, increase productivity and exceed customer expectations. The show includes a conference with technical sessions and workshops with expert knowledge to make your assembly processes work better.

The event is being held from September 28 – 30, from 10am – 4pm each day at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center located at 5555 N. River Road Rosemont, IL (just outside of Chicago.)

There have been many breakthroughs in light-directed order fulfillment technologies which strongly differentiate the more sophisticated systems of today from their legacy counterparts. These new solutions may offer cable-free light module hardware for greater ease in system installation, expansion, re-slotting and maintenance.

They may also feature progressive software tools for better management of light-directed picking operations and improved visibility into the productivity of their pick process.

At the Assembly and Automation Technology Expo (booth #1321), Lightning Pick Technologies (www.LightningPick.com) will introduce, Build to Light, its first Light-directed Error-Proofing System. Lightning Pick Technologies' Build to Light system reduces errors within critical procedures such as parts picking, kitting, assembly and sequencing among others. Lights mounted on workstations, bin shelving or other material storage media direct operators to the correct parts, quantities and sequences to execute their task with greater accuracy than paper-based methods.

In 1998 Lightning Pick introduced bus-based, cable free light module design to the United States. The technology simplified system installation, re-configuration and maintenance and opened up a wider spectrum of flexible application possibilities. Our deep catalog offers many hardware colors, sizes and optional features to provide the perfect hardware for your process requirements. These include light models specifically designed for easy mounting on flat or curved material storage media surfaces.

All Lightning Pick hardware runs on an integrated network that has been tested and proven by recognized leaders in material handling excellence. With over 500,000 live light devices installed, Lightning Pick is the number one provider of light-directed systems in North America.

About Lightning Pick
For over 25 years and across 500 installations worldwide, Lightning Pick Technologies has delivered advanced order picking technologies on time, on budget, every time. Lightning Pick has best-in-class applications for Pick to Light, Put to Light, Pack to Light (Put to Store) Voice and RF systems support lean supply chain processes from manufacturing through order fulfillment. As a result, Lightning Pick clients improve their level of service, achieve superior order quality, and advance their positions in the market. Build-to-Light is an important cost-effective advancement.

Lightning Pick Technologies
http://www.lightningpick.com
Joe Pelej
joe.pelej@lightningpick.com
262-250-2143

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Germantown, WI -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/23/2010 -- The 9th Annual - North Texas WERCouncil, Warehousing Resource Convention will be held on September 23, 2010 at the Grapevine, TX Convention Center. The North Texas WERC (Warehousing Education and Research Council) Chapter is planning a one-day convention featuring Lightning Pick and Pick-to-Light technology solutions.

The educational sponsor is Texas Christian University (TCU); the Industry Magazine sponsor is DC Velocity. Lightning Pick will be located at booth 6.

There have been many breakthroughs in light-directed order fulfillment technologies which strongly differentiate the more sophisticated systems of today from their legacy counterparts. These new solutions may offer cable-free light module hardware for greater ease in system installation, expansion, re-slotting and maintenance.

They may also feature progressive software tools for better management of light-directed picking operations and improved visibility into the productivity of their pick process.

Lightning Pick Technologies (http://www.LightningPick.com) will introduce, Build to Light, its first Light-directed Error-Proofing System. Lightning Pick Technologies' Build to Light system reduces errors within critical procedures such as parts picking, kitting, assembly and sequencing among others. Lights mounted on workstations, bin shelving or other material storage media direct operators to the correct parts, quantities and sequences to execute their task with greater accuracy than paper-based methods.

In 1998 Lightning Pick introduced bus-based, cable free light module design to the United States. The technology simplified system installation, re-configuration and maintenance and opened up a wider spectrum of flexible application possibilities. Our deep catalog offers many hardware colors, sizes and optional features to provide the perfect hardware for your process requirements. These include light models specifically designed for easy mounting on flat or curved material storage media surfaces.

All Lightning Pick hardware runs on an integrated network that has been tested and proven by recognized leaders in material handling excellence. With over 500,000 live light devices installed, Lightning Pick is the number one provider of light-directed systems in North America.

Over the years 'Pick-to-Light' has become the generic industry term encompassing all light-directed order selection and sortation systems, differentiating the overall approach from paper-based picking, RF picking, voice-directed picking and other methods. Even users of Put-to-Light for direct-to-consumer fulfillment or retail store replenishment operations (sometimes called Pack-to-Light) often recognize themselves as ultimately being part of the Pick-to-Light universe. The emerging term 'Build to Light' distinguishes light-directed systems used specifically to enhance production related processes from Pick to Light solutions developed to meet warehousing and fulfillment challenges.

About Lightning Pick
For over 25 years and across 500 installations worldwide, Lightning Pick Technologies has delivered advanced order picking technologies on time, on budget, every time. Lightning Pick has best-in-class applications for Pick to Light, Put to Light, Pack to Light (Put to Store) Voice and RF systems support lean supply chain processes from manufacturing through order fulfillment. As a result, Lightning Pick clients improve their level of service, achieve superior order quality, and advance their positions in the market. Build-to-Light is an important cost-effective advancement.

Lightning Pick Technologies
http://www.lightningpick.com
Joe Pelej
joe.pelej@lightningpick.com
262-250-2143

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Germantown, WI -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/21/2010 -- To meet the demands of their growing supply chain, Charlotte Russe selected the Warehouse Management for iSeries solution from Manhattan Associates an optimized Charlotte Russe's receiving, inventory, planning and replenishment processes to efficiently support their retail store growth. Charlotte Russe's Ontario distribution center also installed a Pack-to-Light solution from Lightning Pick Technologies (http://www.lightningpick.com.)

Manufacturing journalist TR Cutler looked at Pick to Light technologies in the current issue of WTG's Manufacturing and Supply Chain News. In the feature article Cutler explores how Charlotte Russe operates over 500 stores throughout 45 states and Puerto Rico. Charlotte Russe stores deliver style in clothing and accessories, providing an exciting, fashionable assortment of merchandise that compliments virtually every facet of their customers' lifestyle. Founded in 1975, their stores provide fashion and lifestyle needs of young, fashion-conscious women in their teens and early twenties, offering trend right apparel and accessories at value prices. In addition to a wide selection of apparel, Charlotte Russe also offers a full range of accessories and footwear, helping customers to easily compliment their apparel selections.

"Our expansion strategy challenged us to support our news stores and meet the rising replenishment order volumes. Lightning Pick Technologies' Pack-to-Light solution immediately helped us push merchandise out to our stores faster, and get it in front of customers where it belongs," noted Chris Monier, VP of Distribution and Logistics.

Monier went on to say, "The intuitive, visual sortation approach also made training new employees exceptionally simple. Within a few hours we can have new operators actively using the Pack-to-Light system to quickly break down full cases of product into individual store boxes."

Sometimes called a Put-to-Light or Put-to-Store system, Pack-to-Light was ideal for Charlotte's flow-through retail store replenishment approach. The Pack-to-Light process is simple and effective. Manhattan's WM conveys full cases of inventory to the correct pack area, where operators use the fully integrated Lightning Pick system to break them down to less-than-case-quantities for individual retail stores. The operators scan the full case of product with a cordless RF unit. Next, light modules illuminate at store boxes requiring that item, and direct the quantity needed for each. Different colored LEDs (red and green) direct operators to store positions/boxes above or below the track of light modules. The operator can quickly and accurately 'put' (or 'pack') the items to that store box, and then extinguish the light to confirm that the sortation was completed. The process repeats until the full case is rapidly emptied, and then another is conveyed to the pack area.

Today, Charlotte Russe maintains an impressive sortation rate regardless of order demand. Throughput for the whole Pack-to-Light system (all six zones) averages 5000 units per hour. During peak season the company processes 9500 units per hour through Lightning Pick, while maintaining a 99% accuracy rate. The solution is intuitive…a visual sortation approach makes new employee training exceptionally simple, while the Pack-to-Light approach has increased the speed and quality of Charlotte's order processing for reliable store replenishment.

About Lightning Pick
For over 25 years and across 500 installations worldwide, Lightning Pick Technologies has delivered advanced order picking technologies on time, on budget, every time. Lightning Pick has best-in-class applications for Pick to Light, Put to Light, Pack to Light (Put to Store) Voice and RF systems support lean supply chain processes from manufacturing through order fulfillment. As a result, Lightning Pick clients improve their level of service, achieve superior order quality, and advance their positions in the market.

Lightning Pick Technologies
http://www.lightningpick.com
Joe Pelej
joe.pelej@lightningpick.com
262-250-2143

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm