Optimize Your Warehouse Slotting Process with these Best Practices

Optimize Your Warehouse Slotting Process with these Best Practices | LoadProof

This next best practice is about optimizing your slotting process. It’s all about picking and especially it’s even more important in the e-commerce world, because you are picking one unit order and two unit orders. This is what the standard order profile is for the orders that people are placing from their computers at home through the web and through the mobile device. It’s all about picking from the active locations and piece pick locations. It’s important to make sure that your active bin locations and SKUs that are slotted in those bin locations are done optimally. With slotting tool you can assign your A locations, with respect to proximity to a packing station or your outbound shipping area.

It means choosing a location closest to the location where cartons are packed up and shipped. From this perspective you can classify your A locations, B locations, and C locations using your slotting tool. Then you can run a logic on your SKUs to find the SKU velocity, which means you take all the sales volume and then let’s say SKU A – 1000 units, SKU B – 800 units, and SKU C – 600 Units. After which you can sort you them in a descending order lookout for the new SKU order range. You already have your A locations, B locations, and C locations based on the proximity to the outbound shipping area and then you have your A SKUs, B SKUs, and C SKUs. You can now match them, which involves matching A SKUs in their A location, B SKUs in B location and C SKUs in the C location.

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