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Warehouse Slotting
Working tirelessly behind the scenes of the Warehousing and Logistics Industry to create synergy and the work flow of product is a procedural entity known as "Slotting."

What is slotting, really?
Warehouse slotting is defined as the process of determining the best placement of products within a distribution center or warehouse. Slotting considers each individual location within a warehouse, the opening dimensions of each location, weight limitations (by level, for example, such that heavy items are not located too high for workers to pick the product), product grouping (placing items in the same category together or items commonly selected together near to one another for ease of picking), item slotting unit dimensions and weight (to maximize space utilization), item picking unit dimensions and weight, among other factors, to profile and sequence items down the pick path (the route a worker travels to select items within a warehouse). The goal of slotting is to place the right items in the best locations (based on a company’s rules and objectives) to increase productivity, improve safety and ultimately achieve cost savings. 

How does Slotting Benefit Warehousing and Logistics?
The benefits of proper slotting include: reduced selector travel, which will in turn lower operational costs; and reduced bend and reach for warehouse workers, which lowers the risk of injury and product damage. In addition to reducing travel and bend and reach, sequencing items along the pick path from heavy to light helps to create more stable pallets. With more stable pallets, truck loads will also have increased stability, which leads to less product breakage. All of these benefits foster cost savings and ROI for those utilizing slotting optimization technologies. 

World Slotting Day: October 19th 2015
While the warehouse slotting process has been in practice since the establishment of warehousing, it is only within recent years that slotting optimization technology has been brought to the forefront of the warehousing community as a powerful tool to reduce costs and improve inefficiencies, thus causing the interest in slotting optimization technology to sky rocket!

Coinciding with the Ten Year Anniversary of one of Slotting's leading specialists, Optricity Corporation, World Slotting Day has been established to bring together other leaders in this field to band together and celebrate the power of slotting!

With the recognition of educational associations, like the Warehousing Education and Research Council, as well as from clients across six continents, Optricity and other leaders in this field hope to continue to bring to light the useful, usable and beneficial solution of slotting optimization technology. 

Slotting Optimization: Importance and Relevance within the Warehousing & Logistics Industry
Below are a sample of posted articles, whitepapers, and case studies that illustrate the importance of slotting, as well as its evolution into an industry hot topic.


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