Accellos Featured on Logistics Viewpoints

Steve Banker of ARC Advisory Group featured Accellos One Visualize today on Logistics Viewpoints.

Similarly, top executives at Accellos told me they started developing their solution about a year ago. They had to wait for their gaming engine supplier to make substantial enhancements to their engine (which was completed in September) before they could finalize their development work.

Accellos One Visualize lets you see your warehouse in three dimensions. You can view:

• The path your picker took to fulfill an order or series of orders
• The locations of your fastest moving items and your slowest moving items
• Where your overstock locations are in relationship to your prime stocking locations
• The history of where a product has been located over time
• What has been located in a bin over time

The article points out the benefits of 3D renderings of your data:

The power of this type of system will come when it is used to detect and act upon current events or problems. For example, if you have an “aged inventory” alert, the system does not print out tabular data that could cause your eyes to glaze over. Instead, you execute a query, the warehouse and yard 3D layouts are displayed, and every location with aged inventory lights up and begins to blink. You can then zoom in on particular pallet locations and look at that inventory. At this point, you might tell a supervisor to immediately unload the trailers with aged inventory and move them to a priority use location. Similarly, aged inventory in the warehouse could be re-slotted into forward pick zones to be consumed more quickly.

Read the entire article at Logistics Viewpoints, or shoot an email to our experts for more information.

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