If your employees are wasting a lot of time searching for products in your warehouse, then your business could benefit from better warehouse slotting.
Warehouse slotting is the process of deciding how to organise the inventory in your warehouse for maximum efficiency.
What is slotting?
Slotting creates a strategy behind how you organise your warehouse, aiming to save employees time spent walking up and down aisles when picking orders and replenishing stock.
To create an efficient slotting strategy, you will need to carefully examine and analyse your inventory and sales data.
It often increases warehouse efficiency to group all your most popular products together and products that are commonly ordered together side-by-side.
Popular products should be located towards the front of your warehouse, and less popular items further back.
Benefits of warehouse slotting
Optimising your warehouse layout using slotting has many benefits including:
- Increased employee productivity.
- Better utilisation of space.
- More accurate and organised inventory data.
- Faster replenishment of products.
- Faster order picking.
- Improved workplace ergonomics.
- Improved product visibility.
- Improved order picking accuracy.
- Less picking errors and happier customers.
To keep your slotting current, you will need to accept that it is an ongoing work in progress. You are likely to need to keep moving things around in response to factors like seasonality and market trends to keep things operating as efficiently as possible.
Using the right warehouse storage can also help to streamline processes in the warehouse. Here at Millennium Storage and Interiors, we provide warehouses with live carton storage systems ideal for improving organisation in your warehouse and reducing order preparation time.
For help and advice with improving your warehouse storage solutions, get in touch with our team of experts here at Millennium Storage and Interiors by calling us on 01942 603 344.