Industry Trend: How An Integrated Packaging Flow Can Reduce Repetitive Works in Fulfillment Operations.

A fulfillment center may already use a warehouse management system, automated storage, conveyors, sortation, or robotic picking. Yet after an order reaches the packing area, the physical workflow may still depend on a chain of manual actions: move the product, find a carton, form the box, load the order, close it, apply the label, and move the finished package again.

This is why a highly automated warehouse can still have an operator-intensive final packaging stage. The issue is not that every individual task lacks a machine. The issue is that the tasks may remain disconnected, with people acting as the transfer mechanism between stations.