Download - Making warehouses more efficient
Pick Faster - Ship Faster
Sharoon Thomas www.fulfil.io
Part I: Storage Strategy
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Who am I ?
• ERP consultant for 7 years
• Contributor to several open source ERP projects
• Successful implementations around the world
• Co-founder and CEO of fulfil.io
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Why should I make my warehouse efficient ?
• If you want to ship orders faster to your customers without adding more pickers.
• If you want your pickers to do more with less.
• If you want to scale without buying robots
• Efficient businesses thrive, others die!
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Recap: Warehouse Efficiency Factors
• Operating Procedures
• Warehouse Layout (The focus of this presentation)
• Equipment
• Picking
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Where is the time spent ?
Pick Time = Walk Time (60%) + Handling Time (40%)
40%
60%
Walk Time Handling Time
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Travel time between product locations
usually accounts for
more than 60% of picking time.
Where is the time spent ?
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1. Store products in your warehouse based on popularity.
2. Pick products in the order they are stored. 3. Pick small orders in batches (future post)
How to reduce travel time ?
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Storage based on popularity 1/4
A Products - 60% - Your most popular and fastest moving SKUs B Products - 25% - Medium pace SKUs C Products - 15% - Your slowest moving SKUs
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Storage based on popularity 2/4
Layout 1: A products at head and Tail
Suitable for
• > 5000 SKUs • 7+ Aisles
• A products: Head & Tail • B products: Middle • C products: Upper shelves
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Storage based on popularity 3/4
Layout 2: A products at head, B at Middle, C at tail
Suitable for
• < 5000 SKUs • < 7 Aisles
• A products: Head • B products: Middle • C products: Tail
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Tips
1. Leave Empty Space For Future Changes (New SKUs,
Popularity changes etc). 2. Sort picking lists by location: This ensures that the picker
walks only once as shown in the images.
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