Warehousing Games: where can your warehouse improve?

How many meters your order pickers walk each day depends on three choices: where your items are stored, which route pickers take and which orders they pick together. In these three games you experience how much difference those choices make. After each game you see how close you came to Metrica’s optimal solution, and how much it saves compared to common practice.

Metrica works on top of your existing WMS. Your current systems stay as they are; Metrica calculates how to do it smarter.

Order picker Carla on a high-reach truck

Rack & Stack

Are your items in the best locations?

Carla picks orders with a high-reach truck. Each pallet shows how many picks she has to make. You decide where the pallets go in the racking. The less Carla’s truck has to lift, the better your score.

The problem behind it is called slotting.

Play Rack & Stack

Warehouse Maze

Do your order pickers take the shortest route?

Guide order picker Kevin through the warehouse and collect the orders via the shortest path. After each round you see your route alongside Metrica’s.

The problem behind it is called routing.

Play Warehouse Maze

Batch & Match

Are your orders batched smartly?

Order picker Betsy collects orders with a picking cart. Several orders fit on the cart at once. You decide which orders go on the same cart. The less Betsy has to walk, the better your score.

The problem behind it is called batching.

Play Batch & Match

And in your warehouse?

With a handful of orders, gut feeling still gets you a long way. In a real warehouse you are dealing with thousands of order lines a day, and order patterns keep changing. Metrica uses the data from your existing WMS to calculate what smarter slotting, routing and batching would deliver.

See what Metrica adds to your WMS