Slot3D™ New & Improved Software Features
IMPROVED! Heat
Map Cost Analysis
Easily add key material handling pickup and drop points along with
preferred pick directions to your warehouse model and Slot3D™ will
automatically calculate the travel costs.
The new Heat Map Cost Analysis
feature provides powerful visual feedback of the lowest pick cost real
estate in your warehouse. Slot3D™ uses the travel cost information
to ensure the right product is slotted to the right location in the
warehouse.
IMPROVED! Determine Optimal
Equipment for New DCs
Slot3D™ is an excellent tool for facility design. Simply provide
Slot3D™ with a list of the different types and sizes of material
handling equipment under consideration for a facility and it will return
a configuration that provides the best economic fit. Users can build
a library of common equipment configurations for use across many projects.
IMPROVED! 3D Facility Design & Modeling
Slot3D™ is a certified Warehouse Information Modeling (WIM®) software
tool that enables owners to make informed business decisions about
warehouse operations and product slotting plans.
- Understand the feasibility of changes in warehouse workflow and
the effective cost savings strategy for implementation.
- Give more attention to cost factors by studying alternative solutions
on one model.
- Standardize facility production increases through tested best
practices.
- Understand the preferred path to maximize warehouse capital
investment for DBOM (Design, Build, Own, Maintain)
- Realize the benefit of analyses done during design to improve the
warehouse performance rather than having to change an existing facility
layout later.
IMPROVED! CAD-Enabled Slotting Strategies
Slot3D™ now includes the capability to define slotting business rules
spatially (based on the physical location of equipment within a 3D
model). This greatly curtails or completely eliminates the need to
spend time developing a complex plan for a facility that divides it
into subsections for the purpose of assigning preferences to each aisle,
or to portions of an aisle. Warehouse designs that would be exceedingly
difficult to otherwise model (such as Bulls-eye configurations) become
simple to express.
NEW! Family Group Precedence Support (Build Pallets by Weight, etc.)
Many organizations will arrange their warehouses so that orders are
picked in a way that accommodates a simple unloading process.
This is particularly common in retail or food distribution environments,
where pallets are constructed so that they may be unloaded aisle-by-aisle,
or so that they are arranged with heavy items on bottom and light items
on top. Family Group Precedence Support allows users to specify that
family (or weight) based groups of SKUs are slotted together, and that
groups are slotted in a particular sequence relative to one another,
so that it is easy to build pallets as needed.
NEW! Smart Bin Coding
Smart Bin Coding is a new productivity enhancement tool that provides
an easy and efficient way to label locations within your warehouse
model. Through the AutoCAD® for Warehouse interface you select
a group of locations, enter the first and second address and Slot3D™ intelligently
begins to automatically fill in the remaining locations.
Easily adjust location naming at any point and Slot3D™ will
detect the new pattern and complete the labeling for you. Provide location
addresses for an entire warehouse in a matter of a few keystrokes.
NEW! Automated WMS Synchronization
Tools
AutoSync is a new Slot3D™ App. Slot3D™ Apps are extensions
to Slot3D™ that are available to Subscription clients.
AutoSync can be used to establish an automated synchronization procedure
between a Slot3D™ facility and a client's WMS. Once configured,
AutoSync will automatically import new facility data (SKUs, SKU Groups,
Orders, etc.) and execute scenarios on a nightly basis. This will ensure
that up-to-date move suggestions are available every day.
IMPROVED! Travel Cost
Analysis
By leveraging the x/y/z positional information provided by a 3D facility
model, Slot3D™ can simulate picking and replenishment operations
within a warehouse and produce a report of distance, time, and cost
involved in travel. By providing a simple mechanism to compare travel
costs across scenarios, the Travel Cost analysis function of Slot3D™ delivers
a concrete and relatable ROI metric.
NEW! Customized Reports and Storage Terminology
While Slot3D™ is designed with flexibility in mind such that
it can be successfully deployed within almost any warehouse, it is
important that the terminology specific to a particular warehouse be
addressed by the software. When site-specific Storage Terminology options
are defined, Slot3D™ will automatically customize all reports
so as to apply the user's terminology to any data that is reviewed
within the software or exported for external processing.
