RightChain Pallets | Pallet Storage and Picking Optimization

RightChain Pallets | Pallet Storage, Picking, and Slotting Optimization
17% to 38% lower pallet storage and picking costs via higher productivity, storage density, and equipment utilization.
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RIGHTCHAIN PALLETS | FEATURES AND FUNCTIONS
RightChain Pallets minimizes pallet storage and picking costs by assigning each SKU product to its optimal storage mode, storage configuration, pallet handling vehicle, and slot location. Our proprietary CloudAI SaaS optimization develops and evaluates every conceivable storage, picking, and slotting scenario and chooses the minimum cost storage, picking, and slotting solution for each SKU product. RightChain Pallets has been employed in optimizing the pallet storage, picking, and slotting of more than one hundred warehouses including those at BP, Caterpillar, Clorox, Coca-Cola, Disney, Honda, HP Hood, John Deere, Mitsubishi, Procter & Gamble, and Target among many others. In those cases RightChain Pallets has been employed to minimize pallet storage and handling costs, optimize the use of existing pallet storage and handling equipment, maximize storage density, maximize pallet handling productivity, maximize building cube utilization, baseline current pallet storage and handling costs, analyze and maximize pallet storage capacity, develop KPIs for pallet storage and picking performance, minimize pallet handling time and distance, develop warehouse automation business cases, extend the useful life of existing warehouse facilities, avoid and/or delay major capital expenditures in warehousing infrastructure, optimize floor storage lane depths, and appropriate best practices in pallet storage and picking.

Minimize Pallet Storage and Picking Costs

RightChain Pallets computes the minimum cost storage mode, storage configuration, and vehicle type for each SKU resulting in pallet storage and picking costs reduced by 17% to 38%.

Optimize Existing Footprint, Racking, and Vehicles

RightChain Pallets is frequently employed to help optimize the use of existing floorspace, pallet racking, and pallet handling vehicles.

Maximize Pallet Storage Density

RightChain Pallets determines the optimal combination of storage mode, storage configuration, and vehicle assignment to maximize storage density and handling productivity.

Minimize Handling Time and Distance

RightChain Pallets slots each pallet in such a way as to minimize pallet handling time and distance.

Maximize Pallet Picking Productivity

RightChain Pallets assigns each SKU to the combination of vehicle type, storage mode, and storage configuration that minimizes the total cost of pallet storage and picking.

Optimize Floor Storage Lane Depths

RightChain Pallets computes the optimal depth and mix of floor storage lanes to maximize storage density, minimize honeycombing, reduce re-warehousing, and increase handling productivity.

Justify Automation for Pallet Storage and Picking

RightChain Pallets allows users to evaluate and simulate pallet storage and picking automation alternatives including ASRS machines, AMRs, AGVs, and driverless lift trucks.

Baseline Current Pallet Storage and Picking Costs

RightChain Pallets is often used to help baseline current pallet storage and picking costs including labor, occupancy, and equipment.

CAPEX Avoidance for Building Expansions

RightChain Pallets is frequently used to help increase the useable life of existing warehouse buildings, thus avoiding and/or delaying major capital expenditures.

Pallet Storage Capacity Analysis

RightChain Pallets is often used to help determine the overall pallet storage capacity of current, proposed, and future pallet storage and picking solutions.

Evaluate Proposed Solutions and Scenarios

RightChain Pallets is typically used to evaluate proposed new storage modes, storage configurations, and vehicle types.

KPIs for Pallet Storage and Picking

RightChain Pallets may be employed to compute and project key performance indicators for pallet storage and picking including those for cost, productivity, and storage density.

Maximize Clear Height Utilization

In addition to floorspace, building clear height is frequently under utilized. RightChain Pallets helps to maximize building cube utilization.

Appropriate Best Practices for Pallet Storage and Picking

The RightChain Pallets applications includes a best practices template for pallet storage and picking.

Minimize Pallet Storage and Picking Costs

RightChain Pallets computes the minimum cost storage mode, storage configuration, and vehicle type for each SKU resulting in pallet storage and picking costs reduced by 17% to 38%.

Optimize Existing Footprint, Racking, and Vehicles

RightChain Pallets is frequently employed to help optimize the use of existing floorspace, pallet racking, and pallet handling vehicles.

Maximize Pallet Storage Density

RightChain Pallets determines the optimal combination of storage mode, storage configuration, and vehicle assignment to maximize storage density and handling productivity.

Minimize Handling Time and Distance

RightChain Pallets slots each pallet in such a way as to minimize pallet handling time and distance.

Maximize Pallet Picking Productivity

RightChain Pallets assigns each SKU to the combination of vehicle type, storage mode, and storage configuration that minimizes the total cost of pallet storage and picking.

Optimize Floor Storage Lane Depths

RightChain Pallets computes the optimal depth and mix of floor storage lanes to maximize storage density, minimize honeycombing, reduce re-warehousing, and increase handling productivity.

Justify Automation for Pallet Storage and Picking

RightChain Pallets allows users to evaluate and simulate pallet storage and picking automation alternatives including ASRS machines, AMRs, AGVs, and driverless lift trucks.

Baseline Current Pallet Storage and Picking Costs

RightChain Pallets is often used to help baseline current pallet storage and picking costs including labor, occupancy, and equipment.

RIGHTCHAIN PALLETS | USE CASES
RightChain Pallets is and has been used by many of the world's leading supply chain organizations including those at Caterpillar, Clorox, Coca-Cola, Disney, Honda, John Deere, Procter & Gamble, Rittal, and Target among many others in optimizing pallet storage, picking, and slotting.

Honda Parts DCs (9 DCs, 4 million SF)

Implemented in all nine North American DCs, occupying more than four million square feet, RightChain Pallets helps Honda parts distribution centers lead their industry in cost, productivity, and space efficiency.

Coca-Cola FEMSA (52 DCs, 4 million SF)

Coca-Cola FEMSA is the world's largest bottler. They employ RightChain Pallets to optimize floor storage lane depths, maximize network storage density, evaluate DC automation, avoid/delay CAPEX, and extend the useful life of over 400 warehouses and distribution centers.

Target (3 DCs, 1.4 million SF)

RightChain Pallets helped Target optimize pallet storage and picking in three large DCs in Australia.

Clorox (5 DCs, 1.6 million SF)

RightChain Pallets was employed by Clorox to justify a fleet of automated guided vehicles and to maximize storage density across their network of DCs.

John Deere (510,000 SF)

John Deere put RightChain Pallets to work in justifying automated systems for pallet storage and picking, to optimize floor storage lane depths, and to slot pallet SKU locations.

Rittal (440,000 SF)

Rittal employed RightChain Pallets to justify and design a new automated storage and retrieval system and to maximize pallet storage and picking productivity.

Procter & Gamble (400,000 SF)

P&G employed RightChain Pallets to optimize pallet storage, picking, and slotting in a 400,000 square foot Pringles warehouse.

HP Hood (230,000 SF)

HP Hood employed RightChain Pallets to design and justify a new 10,000 pallet automated warehouse.