Warehouse Operations: Pick Rates, Slotting, Space & Labour Planning
Measure pick rates against labour standards, plan hours and staff per shift, slot SKUs by ABC with a Pareto chart, price the travel saved, measure space and cube utilisation, size dock doors, track the perfect order and cost every client with ABC – every cell checked as you go.
The first lesson is free — no account needed.
About this course
A warehouse operations course that measures and plans one fictional distribution center in a spreadsheet, for warehouse supervisors, operations analysts, logistics students and 3PL account managers. You turn a picking log into lines and units per hour against an engineered labor standard, convert an order forecast into pick and pack hours and staff per shift with ROUNDUP, rank SKUs by pick frequency for ABC slotting with a Pareto chart, price the travel distance saved by re-slotting, measure pallet position occupancy and cube utilization, size dock doors for the busiest two hours, multiply on-time, in-full, damage-free and documentation rates into the perfect order rate and cost a web-shop and a retail client per order and per unit with activity-based costing. The first lab is free.
Lessons
- Pick Rates: Lines and Units per Hour against a Labour StandardFree
- Labour Planning: Hours and Staff per Shift from the Order Forecast Pro
- ABC Slotting by Pick Frequency and the Pareto Chart Pro
- Travel Distance Savings from Slotting: Metres, Hours and Dollars Pro
- Space Utilisation: Pallet Position Occupancy and Cube Utilisation Pro
- Dock Door Scheduling: Door-Minutes, Doors Needed and the Peak Pro
- Order Accuracy and the Perfect Order Rate Pro
- Cost per Order and per Unit with Activity-Based Costing Pro