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!


Recap: Warehouse Efficiency Factors

• Operating Procedures

• Warehouse Layout (The focus of this presentation)

• Equipment

• Picking


Where is the time spent ?

Pick Time = Walk Time (60%) + Handling Time (40%)

40%

60%

Walk Time Handling Time


Travel time between product locations

usually accounts for

more than 60% of picking time.

Where is the time spent ?


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 ?


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



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



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


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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