Certified Logistics Technician (CLT) Practice Exam

Zone picking is a method where a warehouse is divided into specific zones, and each zone is assigned to a picker. As a picker collects items, they focus on their designated area, retrieving products from different locations within that zone before passing the order along to another zone if necessary. This approach helps streamline the process and increase efficiency, as multiple orders can be picked simultaneously within separate zones rather than requiring a single picker to travel to various locations throughout the entire warehouse.

In contrast, other methods like batch picking focus on collecting multiple orders at once from various locations, but they do so in a way that allows multiple items to be gathered for several orders simultaneously rather than being confined to specific zones. Wave picking organizes the picking process by timing and combines items from different orders for efficiency, but similarly to batch picking, it does not limit the process to particular zones. Single order picking, on the other hand, focuses solely on retrieving items for one specific order at a time, which does not involve multiple location collections as effectively as zone picking does.