Optimise Your Warehouse. Maximise Your Margins.
Custom warehouse slotting optimisation solutions and expert advice, personally tailored to your goals. Get faster picking minus the guesswork and maximise your profits with OptiStore’s optimal product placement algorithms. Find out how efficient your warehouse could be today!
How OptiStore Benefits You
Increased Throughput
Enhance your warehouse’s picking efficiency with slotting optimisation, allowing you to dispatch more orders. We analyse relationships and trends in your data to recommend the optimal product placement layout.
Maximum Utilisation, Minimum Wear
Maximise utilisation and even out wear and tear with load-balanced slotting optimisation, enhancing efficiency and extending equipment lifespan.
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Looking to get more out of your warehouse? Save yourself the time, research, testing, and hassle — we’ve done the hard yards so you don’t have to.
OptiStore's Services
Warehouse Racking Optimisation
We analyse your warehouse layout, operational requirements, and sales data to design an optimised product placement strategy. By intelligently grouping high-demand and related products, we minimise picker travel distance and optimise traversal paths — saving time and increasing throughput.
Storage Machine Optimisation
We optimise your storage machines by analysing product relationships and intelligently placing items shelf by shelf. By reducing unnecessary shelf retrievals and balancing load across machines, we minimise downtime, increase throughput, and extend machine life.
How Does It Work?
1. Send Us Your Data and Goals
We discuss your requirements and goals to determine your data needs and the best optimisation strategy for you. We offer expert advice regarding optimisation and guide you through the process of procuring the right data. Once you send us your data and requirement, our work commences. Your data is handled according to our privacy policy and only used for your benefit.
2. We Run Our Algorithms
We customise our algorithms to tailor the results to your warehouse requirements. You just tell us what you need, and we’ll take care of the rest. Our process includes simulations and testing to take the guesswork out of determining the perfect optimised layout. We’ll go back and forth with you during this process to ensure your satisfaction with the results.
3. You Get Results
We provide you with data, diagrams, instructions, and advice for implementing the optimised product placement layout in your warehouse and machines. The optimised layouts will be provided to you in the form of data and diagrams. We’ll remember the customisations we made to our algorithms for you so next time we can provide results faster.
Why OptiStore?
- OptiStore specialises in offering warehouse slotting optimisation as a service. We put in the hard yards so you don’t have to.
- OptiStore is an Aussie business, though we’re open to business outside of Australia too.
- Our service is tailored to your needs. We customise our algorithms and perform testing to see what works best for you.
“We increased our output by 20% thanks to OptiStore!”
“OptiStore has been incredible to work with at every step!”
Frequently Asked Questions
1. What exactly does OptiStore provide?
We provide you with diagrams and data to represent optimal product placement layouts in your physical warehouse storage. We do this according to your requirements and goals, and we use your data to do it. We also provide instructions and expert advice regarding optimisation.
2. How do I know if warehouse slotting optimisation is right for me?
OptiStore can help determine whether this will benefit you or not. If you have a lot of products and pick a lot of orders in a warehouse, chances are you can benefit from slotting optimisation.
3. I have size and weight restrictions, can you accommodate those?
Absolutely, get in touch and we’ll discuss your requirements.
4. How will I know what quantity of products to store?
OptiStore can help you with this if you provide us with the right data!
5. I have this specific machine, can you optimise it?
Get in touch and we’ll find out!
6. I have a request that you haven’t mentioned on your website, can you help?
OptiStore offers customised solutions, so get in touch and we’ll see what we can do!
7. What type of data does OptiStore require?
Primarily, we require basic product data and sales data. The sales data only requires things like product, quantity, order date, order number, etc. No monetary or customer information is required. Optionally, we also require dimensions, weights and measures, and product box and carton quantities if you decide to use those.
8. How will I know my data is safe?
Your data will be handled according to our privacy policy and all applicable laws. Your data will only be used to perform the tasks you require of OptiStore. Once the project is completed, we will remove your data from our systems.
9. What if I don’t have certain data?
Get in touch anyway and we may still be able to work with you!
10. Will OptiStore help with the physical implementation of the optimised layouts?
OptiStore provides instructions, advice, data, and diagrams. You will have to handle the physical implementation of the optimised layouts in your warehouse.
11. Can OptiStore travel onsite?
If required we can discuss options, however typically this shouldn’t be required. We are always open to video meetings.
12. Does OptiStore provide warehouse design services?
No, OptiStore specialises in slotting optimisation.
13. How much do OptiStore’s services cost?
We can’t quote a number without knowing details of the project complexity. It will depend on how much customisation to OptiStore’s processes are required to satisfy your requirements. Additionally, subsequent re-optimisations will be significantly cheaper if your requirements stay the same as last time.
14. Are OptiStore’s services tax deductible?
Yes! OptiStore is a GST registered business, so you can claim a GST credit on our services and include the price of our services as a business expense, though you’ll need to discuss the particulars with a tax accountant.
Got More Questions?
If you have a request we haven’t addressed, or any unanswered questions, just reach out! We’d love to book you in for a free consultation to explore options.