Software provides new levels of optimization for dynamic distribution centers

  
Research Triangle Park, N.C., October 27, 2009 Optricity, supply chain optimization software innovator and provider, announced the release of OptiSlot DC™.  The new release improves on best of breed, second generation slotting technology and utilizes combinatorial mathematics to produce purely deterministic optimal slotting solutions for dynamic warehousing environments.Today’s distribution centers require technology that can handle very large data sets and take into account multiple competing goals and constraints as well as interface seamlessly with warehousing and other management systems.  Advanced technology supports well-managed, complex warehousing activity and provides strategic supply chain (SC) advantage by enabling managers to anticipate and respond rapidly to changing product attributes.  Managers today cannot simply improve efficiency by reacting to known quantities once product is received into the warehouse.  Today’s objective is to maximize space utilization, to enable efficient picking and replenishment activities, and to anticipate and respond to varying receiving, storage, picking, and shipping requirements in order to meet customer demands.

The latest slotting technology, OptiSlot DC, supports the complex warehousing activity and enables competitive SC advantage.  OptiSlot’s underlying optimization engines and intuitive interface maximize warehousing efficiencies and improve quick payback through:

·Improved picking and replenishment efficiencies including response to seasonal and promotional demand

·Reduced labor costs associated with picking and replenishment activity

·Maximized space utilization through optimal product assignment while mitigating the need for new equipment, labor, and extra space

·Ability to compare multiple what-if scenarios in seconds and analyze slotting strategies on key performance metrics including moves-generated ROI
 

Highlights of key improvements for OptiSlot DC include:

·Improved internal layout editability for greater control over slot sequencing, XYZ coordinates (slots and slot ranges), and for green field and existing warehouse area slots and aisles providing for improved slotting alternative analysis

·Logical and overhead graphical view capabilities that enable granular multi-edit functionality

·Flexible, available labor-based moves lists that can stand alone or integrate with WMS work well assignments

·Enhanced security features enabling improved user configuration

·Additional setup utilities to improve speed of tool contributions to operations

Responding to the needs of today’s warehousing challenges and complexities, OptiSlot DC drives improved efficiencies, greater solution speed, deeper analysis and improved visibility, providing management with the power needed to make sound slotting strategy decisions.

About Optricity

Optricity, a software development company, specializes in solving complex Supply Chain (SC) optimization problems.   Optricity solutions minimize operational costs at SC junctures where customer’s competing goals and constraints come together.  Using patent-pending RASSQ™ optimization engines, Optricity’s best-of-breed solutions easily integrate with existing warehouse management and planning systems.  Visit www.Optricity.com to learn more about the advanced, warehouse slotting optimization tool, OptiSlot™, RASSQ optimization and other Juncture Optimization™ capabilities.