In the distribution center, walking from one location to the next accounts for 60% of a picker’s time. Reducing walking time, then, is all but guaranteed to improve efficiency. That’s the rationale ...

Today’s warehouse managers face a number of challenges. Customers demand perfect order accuracy; smaller and more-frequent orders cover a greater number of SKUs; senior management calls for lower ...

Oct. 23, 2002 – In many distribution centers, up to 50 percent of the inventory is made up for SKUs that account for only five percent of the picking activity. And often, slow-moving items are ...