Katta at the door
White bags arrive through one receiving door. Each katta carries its own bag barcode.
THE RECORD
Bag DLV-…-07 received · manifest match
Sorting automation
Sorting automation: fewer hands per parcel, fewer parcels on the wrong route.
Delv's sorting line moves a parcel from the inbound katta to its destination bin. Scanning and exception handling run today; the conveyor and automatic diverter are planned.
Inside the hub
Six steps, katta to rider tray.
Choose a step, or scroll — the model follows the parcel through the same six steps the floor runs today.
Open and scan
The bag is opened and scanned, then every piece inside is scanned to its shipment record.
THE RECORD
38/38 pieces scanned to record
Onto the conveyor
Pieces travel on a belt past a fixed scanner, instead of being carried by hand.
THE RECORD
Belt scan · piece read in motion
Automatic sort to destination bin
A diverter reads each barcode in motion and pushes the piece to its route bin.
THE RECORD
Diverter match · route bin assigned
Exceptions to a named owner
A piece that doesn’t match goes to a separate bin, with one named person responsible for it.
THE RECORD
Unmatched · owner assigned · reason required
Bin to rider tray, out-scan
The route bin becomes the rider’s tray. An out-scan records exactly what left the hub.
THE RECORD
Out-scan · rider R-021 · 46 pcs
What changes
Fewer hands carry each parcel, and every scan is still on record.
Manpower
Fewer repeated touches and less manual destination sorting. Receiving, feeding, exception and handover roles stay — a complete operation still needs people.
Time
Labour effort per parcel and elapsed time to dispatch are measured separately. A faster belt alone doesn't fix a waiting queue or an incomplete manifest.
Cost
Labour is compared against the full cost of the line: equipment, maintenance, energy and the work it still needs around it.
Interactive operating model
Change the inputs. See the trade-off.
Same daily volume and shift hours, compared manual handling against an assisted line.
Monthly net saving
Example scenario
After equipment, maintenance and additional power.
6,000 parcels/day · 8-hour shift
- People per shift, manual and assisted
- 7 to 3
- Person-hours per day, manual and assisted
- 50 to 20
- Monthly labour reduction
- ₹93,600
- Monthly cost, manual and assisted
- ₹1,63,800 to ₹1,51,200
- Modelled cost per parcel
- ₹1.05 to ₹0.97
How the comparison works
Person-hours = daily volume divided by parcels per person-hour. People per shift = person-hours divided by productive shift hours, rounded up. Monthly labour = people times loaded person-day cost times operating days. Assisted cost adds equipment, maintenance and extra power. Net saving = manual labour minus assisted total cost.
Use a monthly equipment cost, including depreciation and financing as appropriate. Both rate inputs must cover the same end-to-end handling scope. Productive hours exclude breaks and downtime. Floor rent, tax and exception costs are excluded unless you include them yourself. No reduction in failed deliveries or sorting errors is assumed.
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