Ad-hoc Slotting
Continuous correction — re-slot only what drifted, not the whole building.
Demand drifts every week; full re-slots happen a few times a year. Ad-hoc Slotting closes the gap — it detects the SKUs whose locations no longer fit their demand and generates a minimal, targeted correction plan.
Minimal
moves — only SKUs that breached their coverage targets
Weekly
cadence instead of quarterly upheaval
Full-warehouse slotting is powerful but heavy. Between runs, demand keeps moving: a promoted SKU outgrows its pick face, a seasonal line fades and hoards prime locations. The academic literature is blunt about this failure mode — velocity-based slotting decays under demand drift unless it is continuously corrected.
Ad-hoc Slotting monitors slotted capacity against days-of-cover requirements with tunable tolerances. Overflowing SKUs (too little slotted capacity) and underflowing SKUs (prime space they no longer earn) are flagged, previewed and re-slotted — while everything that still fits stays frozen exactly where it is. Small moves, steady state, no disruption.
How it works
Ad-hoc Slotting, in three moves.
01
Detect
Coverage maths compares each SKU’s slotted capacity to its days-of-cover requirement. Breaches are listed with the gap quantified.
02
Scope
Only breached SKUs enter the optimiser; the rest of the warehouse is locked. The correction cannot ripple.
03
Execute
A short movement list resolves the drift. Run it weekly and the warehouse never strays far from optimal.
Capabilities
- Overflow and underflow detection against days-of-cover targets
- Tunable tolerances and minimum-gap thresholds — no nuisance moves
- Instant preview of breached SKUs before any run is committed
- Scoped optimisation: non-breached SKUs and their slots are frozen
- Breach report grading every SKU: resolved, improved or unresolved
- Same rules, scoring and review flow as full Smart Slotting runs