How the savings are calculated
Three steps turn your 4 inputs into a yearly saving and a payback time.
"27% increase in picking productivity with no change management"
Picking productivity runs 27% above where it was before Pulse, reducing up to 9 FTE in manual picking.
Two decisions, solved together
1. Order clustering
Groups orders to get maximum pick density and minimum travel. 1 walk to the far aisle, instead of 2.
Applied for multi-order picking and waving, while respecting operation constraints: trolley capacity, weight limits, cut-off times, order priorities, fill rates and more.
2. Pick path optimization
Calculate the shortest travel path for every pick tour, cutting walking time. Solve jointly with clustering for even more gain.
Routes follow your movement rules: one-way aisles, cross-aisles and blocked zones. Combine with pick-to-box or pick-to-pallet operations.
There's a faster warehouse hiding inside yours
Find the time your operation loses and give it back, on picking, packing, slotting and data gathering.
Questions?
Start from your yearly picking labor cost: the number of pickers (FTE) times the yearly all-in cost per FTE. Apply the share of that cost that optimization removes to get the yearly saving, then set the saving against license and setup cost to get the payback time.
It is a rough approximation based on 4 inputs. The real gain depends on your warehouse layout, your order profile and how many orders can share one pick tour. Optioryx Pulse can simulate the optimization on your own order history and layout, so you see the business case before anything changes on the floor. The saving is realized when the freed capacity absorbs more volume or replaces overtime and agency hours.
Usually not. A WMS typically sequences picks by location code. It has no model of the distance between two locations or of which aisles run one way, so pickers follow a fixed snake path. Optioryx Pulse solves order clustering and the pick path together, which a rule-based WMS does not do.
Yes. Optioryx Pulse runs in the background and sends the result back into your WMS, so operators keep the terminals they use today. It connects in 3 ways: manual file import and export, flat files over CSV or SFTP, or a direct API connection to your WMS, TMS or ERP.