{"id":1648,"date":"2022-11-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pixels360live.wpenginepowered.com\/blog\/warehouse-bottlenecks"},"modified":"2025-02-05T15:48:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T19:48:43","slug":"warehouse-bottlenecks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/locusrobotics.com\/blog\/warehouse-bottlenecks","title":{"rendered":"Is Your Warehouse the New Bottleneck?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1648\" class=\"elementor elementor-1648\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-e8c5159 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"e8c5159\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 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       <h1 class=\"hero-heading\">Is Your Warehouse the New Bottleneck?<\/h1>\n                            <a href=\"\/blog\/?f_viewall=0&f_page=1&f_posttype=post&f_limit=9&f_search=&f_industries=&f_solutions=&author_id=5#content-filter\">\n                    <p class=\"p-regular author\">\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Author-icon.svg\" alt=\"Author Icon\">\n                        <span class=\"author-name\">Mary Hart<\/span><span class=\"author-position\">, Sr. Content Marketing Manager<\/span>\n                    <\/p>\n                <\/a>\n                    <\/div>\n        <div class=\"hero-banner-right-content\">\n            <div class=\"hero-thumbnail\">\n                <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"289\" src=\"https:\/\/locusrobotics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-19-at-1.16.40-PM-1-1024x370.png\" class=\"image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/locusrobotics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-19-at-1.16.40-PM-1-1024x370.png 1024w, https:\/\/locusrobotics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-19-at-1.16.40-PM-1-300x109.png 300w, https:\/\/locusrobotics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-19-at-1.16.40-PM-1-768x278.png 768w, https:\/\/locusrobotics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-19-at-1.16.40-PM-1-1536x556.png 1536w, https:\/\/locusrobotics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-19-at-1.16.40-PM-1-2048x741.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9abcc74 elementor-widget elementor-widget-content-blog-news-post\" data-id=\"9abcc74\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"content-blog-news-post.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<section class=\"content-blog-news-post\" id=\"content-blog-news-post\" data-module=\"ContentBlogNewsPost\">\n        <section class=\"post-content-item-section white-bg\">\n        <div class=\"container\">\n            <div class=\"content-blog-news-post-content\">\n                <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/locusrobotics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Putaway-Infographic.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15059 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/locusrobotics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Putaway-Infographic-Preview-e1671471407905-155x300.jpg\" alt=\"5 Steps to Warehouse Putaway infographic\" width=\"155\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>When you hear the word \u201cbottleneck\u201d, you probably think of the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">109 container ships<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that were backed up off the Southern California coast. That bottleneck started in January and took until almost the end of October to be resolved. But that didn\u2019t mean the end of the bottleneck when the ships left the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Instead, a new bottleneck was created by all of the products \u2014 this time in warehouses like yours if not your own. Learn how warehouses became the bottleneck, what you can do to handle that challenge, and, to no surprise, how autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) can help!<\/span><\/p><p><b>Houston, We Have a Storage Problem<\/b><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How did warehouses become the bottleneck? The goods and products that were on those container ships are now off the ships and need to go somewhere, bringing them to the warehouses that ordered them based on needs at that time. With the products being stuck on container ships for months, the seasonal need has passed for some of the items, such as pool, gardening, or back to school supplies. For those items and others, consumers no longer have an immediate need, so the products need to be held in storage until the demand is there again.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once products have flowed through the ports, they need to wind up somewhere. There are a few places they could go: open storage in your warehouse or in empty trailers and containers in your warehouse yards if you don\u2019t have the capacity to bring in that inventory.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whether you\u2019re dealing with unexpected inventory from the container ships, returns (\u2018tis the season), or just everyday material that comes into your warehouse, your biggest challenge is storage along with managing the throughput through your warehouse.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><b>Putaway without Bulk Storage<\/b><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many warehouses handle putaway by storing cases and pallets until the products are needed. But that doesn\u2019t solve your storage problem.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One way to handle storage challenges is to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">not<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> store boxes, pallets, or cases at all. To do that, you need a solid putaway system, which can include our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/locusrobotics.com\/locusone\/fleet\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">full fleet of LocusBots<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Origin, Vector, and Max) for transport. Think our robots are <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/locusrobotics.com\/blog\/warehouse-robot-myths-debunked\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">just for picking<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">? Think again! Our bots have true task-interleaving functionality, which helps your warehouse to maximize productivity by simultaneously picking orders, managing returns, and replenishing the pick space using the same robotic technology. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Putaway, one aspect of task-interleaving, is essentially reverse picking, and AMRs make the process easier for your warehouse associates by taking away the miles of walking each day lugging heavy carts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here\u2019s how putaway with LocusBots works in your warehouse:<\/span><\/p><ol><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pallets and cases of product arrive on a truck to your warehouse dock<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Workers scan in and unload the pallets and cases onto a conveyor that comes out of the dock into your warehouse<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Workers load the boxes, pallets, and cases onto <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/locusrobotics.com\/locusone\/fleet\/locus-origin-collaborative-robot\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Origin<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/locusrobotics.com\/locusone\/fleet\/locus-vector-material-handling-robot\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vector<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Max<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 who, by the way, can carry up to 3,000 pounds!<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our LocusBots bring the material to your warehouse associates, who will take the products out and put them away, leaving the corrugated cardboard on the AMR<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our LocusBots then drop off the cardboard at the trash compactor and head back to the truck dock for more material to bring to putaway<\/span><\/li><\/ol><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Think about how that no bulk storage and putaway with AMRs could work in your warehouse. You may just have solved your biggest warehouse challenge, unless you have to store pallets and cases and you\u2019re running out of space.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><b>Move Up, Not Out<\/b><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If storage space is an issue for your warehouse and you have more products coming in than you have going out, you have a few options. You could move to a new location with more square feet, but that isn\u2019t feasible for my warehouses. A better option: go vertical and create <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/locusrobotics.com\/solutions\/mezzanine-warehouse-management\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">automated mezzanine levels<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The best practice for warehouse mezzanines is to have coordinated automation such as autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) on every level. For each order, for example, you may have picks that need to be completed on three different levels. With the right solution, like our advanced warehouse optimization engine, the system manages and optimizes the pick and pass process smoothly across those levels.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are you curious about how Locus Robotics can help your small or enterprise-level warehouse or fulfillment center ease your warehouse storage struggles with putaway, mezzanines, and more? <\/span><\/p><p><a href=\"\/demo\">Talk to us<\/a> and we\u2019ll tell you more!<\/p>                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/section>\n    <\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-9dab7f1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"9dab7f1\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container 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