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What is an essential element which make a big difference among warehouse and distribution center? Like website, send your postal card or real estate, location is the most essential element. Location where you place your product in your warehouse or distribution center has significantly affected on productivity, order accuracy and even worker safety. By locating inventory in the optimal slots, you can improves the overall efficiency and productivity of your distribution operations. Put fast-moving items in the most accessible locations, kitted items kept together, heavy items placed into safety manner place for minimizing damage and reduce worker injure or accident, and optimized total storage capacity are several strategies to make a big difference in your warehouse or distribution center operation.

Slotting Management for Warehouse
Regardless of the operation, continuously optimized pick locations for each product is vital to increasing warehouse efficiency and reducing labor costs. But every environment is different and requires a unique set of slotting strategies.
Slotting management can optimize item slotting throughout facility and will have a positively impact on key warehouse metrics, i.e:
 Increased picker productivity
 Reduced replenishment volumes
 Shortened batch/wave completion times
 Improved warehouse space utilization
 Minimized product damage

How Slotting Management Works?
Slotting Management provides a solution to these problems by optimizing product placement or “slotting,” according to user-defined goals including storage capacity, volume balancing levels, slot sequencing, family grouping, seasonal parameters and racking criteria.

Slotting Optimization uses data on each product’s physical characteristics and order frequency to calculate a relative value for each position its slot might inhabit within your facility. It aggregates these values for all products, and compares millions of move combinations against your user-configured strategies to determine the optimal layout for your warehouse.

Slotting Management Advantages
With Slotting Optimization, you can:
 Determine the best placement of inventory
 Organize by velocity to maximize throughput
 Balance volumes to decrease bottlenecks
 Sequence by weight to improve outbound pallet integrity
 Solve space utilization problems by determining the appropriate storage capacity and volume-balancing levels
 Identify “golden zones” to reduce worker fatigue and accidents
 Keep similar items separated to reduce mispicks
 Maintain your preferred item sequencing and family groupings to improve customer service
 Group by product families determine optimal capacity of pick locations to reduce replenishment trips
 Apply customized filters to target specific SKUs for re-slotting
 Recommend incremental adjustments as products are added or deleted to meet seasonal demand, or to accommodate other changes as they occur

About SAM WMS
Slotting Management —part of SAM WMS, increasing workforce efficiency, shortens order fulfillment cycles, and maximizes throughput by determining the best location to slot your inventory. It also improves customer service by strategically grouping items together for fulfillment—and updating placement recommendations based on trends and seasonal variations.

SAM WMS platform-based approach to supply chain optimization—enables you to make timely, intelligent decisions as ordering trends change.
With SAM WMS, companies can solicit and optimize their picking performance, solve space utilization problem and shortened order completion time. Come with a rich graphical user interface and pre built interface file formats to enable rapid implementation.

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