BFC Software Select: Efficient Food Warehouse Picking
BFC Software Select is a food warehouse picking solution that combines voice and scan technology to deliver over 99% inventory accuracy and extremely low error rates by optimizing picker movements, offering flexible workflows, near-zero training, employee productivity tracking, and specialized features like catchweight handling and language adaptability tailored specifically for food distributors.
Elevate Your Picking. Accelerate Your Pace.
This is the food warehouse picking software that you've been waiting for. BFC Select improves selection accuracy and productivity, while putting you in the driver's seat when it comes to managing your labor.
- Inventory accuracy: >99% (as seen by best-in-class customers)
- Error rate: 1 in 8,500 (as seen by best-in-class customers)
Want the Lowest Error Rates In The Industry?
Our fully mobile, hands-free selection solution optimizes movements and accuracy within your selection process.
- Reduce Errors: Food-specific workflows are designed with the selector’s day-to-day in mind, so anyone can quickly learn how to reduce errors.
- Near-Zero Training: Our food warehouse picking system is incredibly easy to learn, enabling your team to get up to speed instantly.
- Crystal Clear Inventory: Gain an accurate snapshot of your inventory and always know what you have, when you have it.
Select: Key Capabilities
Designed and built with food distributors top of mind, Select offers unique features and functionality geared for this industry.
- Best of Both Worlds: Select combines voice and scan technology. The selector is directed where to go and how many to pick, but utilizes scanning for item verification.
- Flexible Picking Options: Whether you start picking and staging product during the day to ease the night shift or have other unique workflows, Select offers flexibility for various scenarios.
- Optimized Movements: Supports single, double, or triple pallets, providing an optimal pick path around the warehouse for increased productivity.
- Employee Dashboards: Tracks employee productivity, including cases picked and idle time, to support proper incentives, assessments, and overall team productivity.
- Catchweights: Multiple options for handling catch weighted items, offering flexibility based on your warehouse operations.
- Language Adaptable: Adaptable to a variety of languages, with light vibration and audio cues for notifications or error prompts.
The Gold Standard For Warehouse Operations
Our broadline, specialty, produce, protein, and convenience store clients set the standard for what ‘Good Looks Like’ in the food distribution industry.
- 1 in 8,500 Error Rate: Top performing customers consistently achieve an error rate of 1 in 8,500.
- >99% Inventory Accuracy: Customers using Dakota WMS on both inbound and outbound sides can see an inventory accuracy rate of over 99%.
Customer Testimonials
"Over the years, our trust in BFC has paid off. They've not just optimized our operations and profitability; they've been a reliable partner that's allowed us to grow and expand our business. That's why we've never needed to look elsewhere."
Robert Berkowitz
President @ City Line
“BFC Software saved us so much time and resources while giving us way more insights into the operations and efficiency of our business than we ever had manually."
Ed Maybrun
President @ Cotati Food Service
"BFC reduced the number of selectors from 30 to 17, eliminated 2 checkers and improved mispicks from 1-1,000 to 1-12,000."
Dennis Merchant
Operations Manager @ Jordano's FoodService
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