Kookaburra Educational Resources, EducationKookaburra: Transforming Student Kit Fulfilment with Automated Sorting
How an Australian education supplier moved from labour-intensive manual kitting to OPEX Sure Sort, lifting output from around 300 to 700+ packs a day while reducing labour dependency.
- 700+
- Student packs per day
- 285-300
- Packs per day before automation
- 30-44
- Items in every kit
The challenge
One student kit. Hundreds of orders. Kookaburra Educational Resources is an Australian-owned education supplier serving schools, government organisations, teachers, parents and students. A key service is building customised student supply packs, combining dozens of products into a single kit. Picking and sorting was completely manual, limiting output to roughly 285 to 300 packs a day, and online buying was rising sharply during COVID-19. Kookaburra needed more throughput without simply adding more people.
The transformation: OPEX Sure Sort
In October 2020, Kookaburra implemented an OPEX Sure Sort automated sorting system, working with OPEX integration partner Dexion Liverpool and SAS.
Instead of relying on employees to sort every item into individual student kits by hand, Sure Sort automated the item-sorting stage. That allowed much larger batch picking, with each item routed automatically to the right kit.
With kits containing 30 to 44 individual items, the change removed the most labour-intensive step in the process. Reported output rose to more than 700 packs a day, while day-shift labour reduced significantly.
The results
- Reported output increased to 700+ packs per day
- Larger batch picking, with sorting automated
- Day-shift labour reduced significantly
On site
SAS demo, OPEX Sure Sort unit
Solutions in this project
Equipment in this project
OPEX
Sure Sort
Robotic sortation that sorts small items into the right order or destination.
Up to 2,400 items / hr
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