Warehouse Heatmap Blog
Warehouse space utilization insights, customer stories, and product updates from the Warehouse Heatmap team.
Stop Guessing Where the Problem Is
"We need more space" is rarely the right answer. The better question — "what space are we wasting?" — usually has an answer hiding in your WMS data.
Chuck Feldman
Re-Slotting After Peak — The Quarterly Habit Almost Nobody Runs
SKU mix shifts every quarter, slotting rarely does. A sensible warehouse re-slotting cadence — and how to run one without disrupting picks.
Steven Sharp
The 8% Rule — Why Most of Your Picks Live in a Tiny Slice of the Warehouse
A small slice of SKUs drives most of your picks. Putting that slice in your golden zone is the cheapest warehouse pick-rate win — and most operations miss it.
Steven Sharp
What a Heat Map Shows That a Stock Report Never Will
Stock reports answer "what's there." Heat maps answer "what's happening." The dimension change that turns warehouse data into slotting decisions.
Steven Sharp
Why Your Warehouse Feels Full but Isn't
"We're out of space" is the most expensive sentence in warehousing — and most of the time it's wrong. Honeycombing, slotting drift, and the heat map fix.
Steven Sharp
Why We Built Warehouse Heatmap
Two operators, one complaint about warehouse data: it's all there, nobody can see it. The story behind Warehouse Heatmap and what we built it to fix.
Steven Sharp