maini : warehousing & inventory logistics the backbone of e-retail ecosystem
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Warehousing solutions for
Retail & e-Commerce industry
e-Retail firms are compelled to put a serious thought about warehousing and inventory logistics as this is
one of the key areas that will help you to economically deliver products into the hands of online
shoppers.
Companies who have realized and worked on this have become run away leaders in online sales
by sheer efficiency of their warehouses and supply chain
that speed orders with ruthless efficiency.
Food for thought
Receiving Shipping
Reserve Storageand
Pallet Picking
CasePicking
BrokenCase
Picking
Accumulation, Sortation & Packing
Cross-docking
DirectPut awayto reserve
DirectPut awayto primary
Replenishment Replenishment
Operation flow in e-retail environment
• Storage capacity
• Effective utilization of available storage space
• Inventory management at warehouses & high demand SKUs
• Stock damages
• Stock identification
• Managing perishables – FIFO
Key problems that efficient warehouses can
solve
• Demand for an increased throughput
• Progressive reduction in order sizes
• Reduced lead times
• Managing higher number of part numbers & higher level of order customization
• Pilferage
Key problems that efficient warehouses can
solve
• Flexible & scalable warehouse infrastructure
Scope of addition of new products/ SKUs
Scope to use the existing infrastructure for different products/ SKUs
Problem: Storage capacity
Solution
Representative image of an e-retail warehouse
• Strategic division of available storage capacity into reserve area and order picking area
• Use of high density racking (high rise) in reserve area
• Use of next gen forklifts, reach trucks and VNAs to service reserve area
• Deploying efficient MHE in order picking area
Problem: Effective utilization of available storage capacity
Solution
Optimized reserve storage area
Problem: Effective utilization of available storage capacity
Optimized order picking areaOrder pickers
Problem: Effective utilization of available storage capacity
• Standard pallet racking with an underpass to increase storage and reduce travel time of equipment
• Gravity flow racks
Problem: Inventory management at warehouses & high demand SKUs
Solution
Problem: Inventory management at warehouses & high demand SKUs
Stacker cranes
Gravity flow
Compact rack
Problem: Enabling quicker stock identification
Solution
• Forklifts with the flexibility to integrate RFID/ barcode scanners
• Storage systems integrated with stock identification features like put to light, bar code scanners, etc.
• RFID reader gates between reserve (High density storage) area & order picking bay
Problem: Enabling quicker stock identification
Tracking incoming goods into reserve warehouse right from the source
Pick to light
RFID scanners RFID reader gate
• Drive in pallet racking increases storage capacity & reduces travel time
• Very high bay warehousing further leverages property footprint potential
Problem: Demand for an increased throughput
VNAs
Drive in pallet racking
High rise warehouses
Solution
• Vertical automated systems solves problems like stock pilferage & damages which is rampant in the industry
Problem: Pilferage & stock damages
Solution
Conclusion• Operational effectiveness of e-retail warehouses depends
on optimizing the available storage space and its division between order picking & reserve storage space
• This enables high utilization of storage space while simultaneously fulfilling orders quickly & reliably with least amount of effort
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