The size of your warehouse and volume of orders dictate the amount of time spent by your order pickers to fulfill each order by moving from one storage bin to another.

We can improve this walking around time by placing your most ordered products closest to the packing stations and placing items sold together near each other.

You can also strategically use slotting to improve efficiency.

Slotting is the process by which you can determine where the items can be stored based on both their order volume and when it is picked in an order cycle so that order time can be reduced.

Also, keeping the products close to the picking area is not the only way, you also need to make sure that it’s easy to pick, by making sure it’s placed in such a way the order pickers don’t need ladders or fork-lifts to pick it.

In addition to optimization of inventory storage, the premises must be kept clean and organized neatly.

The areas where pickers and packers move must be easy to access and trash must be removed frequently.

This is Alphonse, the product manager of VisAI Labs and this is the logistics insight for today.