Smart Slotting: from optimisation model to working operation

Who it is for

Retail and e-fulfilment DCs with high order volumes and a rapidly changing product range.

Solution

The slotting engine dynamically calculates the optimal location per item — fast/slow-mover logic, walking-distance reduction, congestion management and family grouping — and runs as a standalone system that communicates with the WMS via flat files.

Outcome

Within six weeks, a working prototype running on your own data — not a simulation, but the actual product placement for one site. That lets you see what it delivers before you decide to invest. Only once it works does it become, together with CiCT, a robust system: maintained, integrated and suitable for all DCs. At a large non-food retailer, the annual potential was calculated at around €8 million across all distribution centres in eight countries — by the client’s controller, for their own budget. A substantiated business case, not yet a realised saving.