Manage your picking activities by sequencing them in the perfect route throughout your warehouse. Free up congestion by integrating real-time positioning with advanced warehouse optimization.
Search and travel time take about 70% of the total picking time and this time is partly unproductive time. We have shown to improve routing efficiency with up to 28% by suggesting optimal routes that take into account stackability constraints, capacities, priorities and predicted travel time based on a predefined layout.
Pickers on the same aisle can form congestion and reduce efficiency even more so. When integrated with a positioning system, picker routes can be adjusted in real-time in order to reduce potential congestion.
Analysing current movements in the aisles as well as predicted movements will result in a time-based forecast of which zones in the warehouse will be crowded and which not. These zones will then be highlighted in the resulting heatmap. Time based heatmaps are a great source of information for doing warehouse layout analysis.
OnRoute takes into account several key elements when optimizing your indoor routing problems. It assigns orders to your pickers, managing the complexity of your picks while minimizing the total travel time. A non-exhaustive list of such elements is given below:
Deciding on inventory targets for all products requires insights into the dynamics of keeping stock in a supply chain. There are different reasons why companies keep stock, ranging from commercial campaigns, strategic projects, buffering for uncertainties and protecting bottlenecks. We focus on the stock that is being kept to buffer against the uncertainty in demand and supply. This safety stock typically represents a large part of the capital that is tied up in the day-to-day operations of a company. In order to optimize the return on this capital it is important to analyze how much and where this safety stock should be placed in the supply chain.
Solvice OnStock optimizes the inventory levels from a multi echelon perspective: taking into account the different echelons (central warehouse, regional distribution centers, vendor-managed stock levels) of your supply chain and planning the replenishment orders at the same time.
