Pallet Storage and Picking Optimization Lecture Transcript

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(16:37): Yes, that's a great question. Hold on. You got all these different lane depths. What should you do because you probably can't set up a warehouse and have we got a few three deep, we got a few eight deep, we got a few four deep, we got a few. What do you do? If you saw this graph, what would be your recommendation to them in terms of configuring that warehouse? There are 25 SKUs that need six and 14 that need 70, so that's 39 SKUs right there. Probably there's not that much difference between six and seven. There might be some. Where's another pocket? (17:30): 10 and 11. Here's nine and nine. What I might do then is have some 10 deep lanes here and I'm going to have maybe some six deep lanes here and that may be all I have, but at least I've got somewhere close to the right mix. Here's the other thing to remember. Here's my aisle right here. Here's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. From one side that can be four and three. It could be two and five, it could be one and six. There's flexibility in there and a good warehouse management system will help you implement a wide variety of lane depth if it's managed that way. Walter, that was a really good question. You're going to set this warehouse up and it's going to have a mix of these lane depths. Sometimes you get it right on and sometimes the lot comes off the line and you run the calculation and say this lot needs to be in five deep lengths. We don't have any five deep right now we only have four deeps and seven deeps. Based on the analysis I was showing you, the next best option would've been four deep. Let's put it in the four deep. If you just keep running the warehouse that way you can maybe double the storage density is substituting information and optimization in this case for physical space. That's what we're doing right there. (19:09): The next thing I could do is to use racking to try to improve the use of the floor space. That is called a stacking frame. What's unique about it? Instead of stacking on top of the product, they stack on top of fixtures. This isn't more expensive. I have to pay for the frame. When would you ever use stacking frame? Seasonals a good option because usually it's for temporary and it's a big buildup because the accessibility may not be that great, plus maybe you can't ship in the stacking frame, so now you have to disassemble it every time you want to ship something, so usually it's for a short term high volume storage requirement. When you don't need the stacking frames, they collapse down so they don't occupy that much space. Does anybody here use stacking frames? What are you using for Hubert (20:07): Ford line?

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