Smart Slotting
AI-driven slot assignment that puts velocity where it belongs.
Smart Slotting decides where every SKU should live — scoring thousands of candidate locations against velocity, travel and your rules, then proving the result with before/after numbers.
+20–25%
pick productivity
−20%
pick labour requirement
−15%
travel to staging
2 wks
planning time saved per quarter
How it works
Smart Slotting, in three moves.
Travel consumes around half of a picker’s time, and travel is a direct function of where product sits. The engine blends pick and case velocity with distance to staging, enforces capacity, category and zone rules, and keeps fast movers from crowding one aisle — all configurable without code.
01
Ingest
SKU velocity and location data load against the published layout. Data gaps are surfaced, not ignored.
02
Optimise
The multi-pass engine scores candidate locations live — every assignment sees the state left by the one before.
03
Review & accept
KPIs, heatmaps and movement lists in one screen. Accept to baseline the gains; nothing executes without sign-off.
Capabilities
- Velocity scoring: picks, cases, shipments, forecast and days-of-cover fit
- Hard rules: capacity, category eligibility, shelf-life, restricted areas, priority zones
- Congestion-aware soft rules
- Multi-pass optimisation: strict, under-fill, mixed residual, partitioned
- Days-of-cover targets per category and ABC class — tunable by operators
- Scenario compare before committing