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Logistics & warehousing

340 racking locations that were not where the WMS thought

Third-party logistics operator202412 weeks

42,000 m² distribution centre

23%
Less walking distance
14%
More picks per hour
340
Location discrepancies corrected

The challenge

Pickers walked an average of 14 km per shift and AMRs deadlocked at two crossings daily. Slotting was optimised in the WMS against a location map that had drifted from the physical racking after two reconfigurations.

How we approached it

Scan the racking as-built, reconcile against the WMS map — 340 discrepancies — then replay six months of order lines through the corrected model to test slotting scenarios before implementing any of them.

What we delivered

  • As-built racking scan reconciled against the WMS location map
  • Six months of order history replayed through the facility model
  • Velocity, family and hybrid slotting compared on distance and picks/hour
  • AMR traffic simulation to find and design out deadlock points
“We budgeted for a simulation project and got a data-quality project. The simulation was the easy half.”
— Head of Operations

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