My slides from the talk on how to make warehouses more efficient. The storage strategy method explained here can be used by small and mid sized businesses to store products based on their popularity and make their pickers more efficient.

1. Pick Faster - Ship Faster
Sharoon Thomas
www.fulfil.io
Part I: Storage Strategy
A 500 Startups Company

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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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