Top 4 Best Practices in Dimensioning of SKUs with Benefits

Top 4 Best Practices in Dimensioning of SKUs with Benefits | LoadProof

This best practice is about something called dimensioning of SKU’s in warehouse. Dimensioning of products is done by capturing the length width and height of the products. Boxes in which the products are being shipped are also dimensioned. These boxes are tracked as they are moved across with products capturing all the dimensions such as length, width, height, weight, volume and also the other attributes. The item master attributes of a product corresponds to the size of the products.

Some expensive electronic goods does not come with serial number tracking, and some items will be conveyable and others will be non-conveyable. And also some of the items are easy to sort and some are difficult. All these aspects will be focused as part of the dimensioning process, because that is the first time the product hits the dock door or product hits the DC.

None would have seen the physical nature of the product. The vendor would have probably sent an ASN and you automatically create an item master record for those items, so that when the ASN comes through and when the people in the receiving dock receives they can correctly slot in the product at the available space. This can be done by sending the product to the dimensioning station where it will be typically scanned in a machine called Cubiscan. This helps you in high speed dimensioning of products, by having the products lined-up on the queue and the cubiscan scans it very fast.

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