Logiwa offers customizable walking path optimization tailored to your warehouse layout, ensuring efficiency and increased order throughput. By optimizing the walking path, your operations become faster, enabling you to handle higher order volumes seamlessly. This article will explain how to set up walking path priority and also explain several potential techniques you can use to set priority within your warehouse.
Walking Path Priority Setup
To set up walking path optimization using one of the styles above, or another setup that suits your business, follow these steps:
From the Location screen, select or create a location.
From the Create/Edit Location sidebar, find the Walking Path Priority field.
The number that you enter will determine the walking path priority, starting from 1 and ascending from there. 0 indicates no priority.
Click Next to move through the Product Capacity and LP Capacity sections, then click Save to record the priority change.
U Design
The U design picking optimization directs you to pick items through the first corridor before moving to the second.
Consider a scenario with 60 locations, where A1.1 marks the starting point and C1.20 denotes the endpoint. To implement this algorithm, assign a priority of 1 to A1.1 (the starting location) and 60 to C1.20 (the ending location). Priorities should ascend from the starting location to the ending location, reflecting the order of traversal, as shown below:
U Design for Shelves
If your locations feature shelves, you can opt to pick items from bottom to top or vice versa. For instance, if there are 5 shelves at a location, you can choose to start picking from the bottom and work your way up.
The priority table for a warehouse like this would be:
Z Design
The Z design picking optimization guides you to follow a Z-shaped path along a corridor, alternating between left-hand and right-hand shelves for item retrieval.
In a scenario with 60 locations, where A1.1 is the starting point and C1.20 is the endpoint, the algorithm dictates the sequence of item retrieval. For example, if an item is taken from A1.11, the next item should be retrieved from B1.10, and so forth.
Similar to the U design, assign priorities to each location, with A1.1 having the lowest priority and C1.20 having the highest. This prioritization ensures efficient traversal through the warehouse.
See the table below for examples:
Z Design for Shelves
Just like with the U design, if shelves are present at the locations, you have the flexibility to pick items either from bottom to top or from top to bottom.
See the table below for an example of priorities with this sort of setup:
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