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Fine-tuning SKU placement to accommodate variable demand.

High-volume fulfillment and distribution operations require regular fine-tuning to ensure that products are placed in the best location to accommodate changing requirements.

Slotting and Optimization helps you maximize productivity and minimize travel time from location to location by determining the most advantageous arrangement of SKUs within a range of pick faces or slots. It minimizes disruptions that result from demand variability by enabling adjustment of product placement according to seasonality, special promotions, changes in customer order patterns, and the like.

Slotting and Optimization helps companies like yours:

Reduce pick times for faster order fulfillment
Improve picker productivity
Reduce pick errors
Improve ergonomics and safety
Reduce capital and operating costs

Slotting and Optimization ensures the placement of items across pick faces based on a wide selection of user-definable criteria, including product pick velocity, product family groups, and product attributes. It helps you minimize travel distances for selection and put-away, reduce replenishments, balance workloads among operators, and increase pick rates while constraining product weight and size, location size, store-level productivity, location capacity, and family groupings. Warehouse operational and safety standards, as well as capital and operating costs, are also considered.