Strategies_Fall2025

DEPARTMENT UPDATE

Strategic Layout Optimization Enhances Pick Path Efficiency Beyond technology, Blish-Mize is implementing strategic warehouse optimization to group complementary products together, creating more efficient picking paths for workers. The initiative focuses on organizing product mixes that make logical sense for picking operations. “We’re working on warehouse optimization and trying to group products a little bit more efficiently and effectively for our pickers,” Clark says. For example, shovels and long-handle tools that don’t transport well on pallets are now grouped in cart-picking zones, reducing travel time and ensuring pickers can complete orders more efficiently. “We’ve streamlined and gotten those product mixes and those product groups together to make the pick path more efficient as well,” Clark says. “Just like with the pallet stacker, we are trying to get our pickers as efficient as possible throughout their work areas.”

Through a complex conveyor belt system, Blish-Mize can move product around its warehouse easily from different areas to fulfill orders.

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