1 of 3 Case Study Case Study Online Retailers Savings Multiply for Online Retailers Better, faster bagging reduces costs by one-third • Bags/hour—Up from 100 to 350 • Training time—Down from 3 weeks to 1 • Workstations—Reduced from 24 to 132 of 3 Labor savings with automatic bagging machines Time is money. For a leading online retailer, the 32,000 hours saved annually by using Sharp automated packaging machines to process orders amounted to significant savings. “The main reason we wanted the machines was to cut down on our hours during the busy season,” says the company’s purchasing agent. Before the automated machine was installed, items were individually scanned, packed, labeled, sealed and placed on a conveyor. “Now, we can process 10 orders at a time by lining them up next to each

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