Warehouse Mechanization

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Warehouse mechanization is a part of our IT landscape where our IT meets the physical world. It is one of those places where we encounter that while we could scale our IT almost indefinitely in the cloud, the physical world and warehouses don't work that way. As you listen to this episode you will learn how the world of IT has to adapt to the physical world to make things work. And as Peter states this is also the place where e-commerce comes to life.
What this episode covers
This is the place where all the bits and bytes in the webshop have to lead to tangible products that are picked and delivered to our customers. By all measures a real interesting place.

:

• What sets warehouse mechanization apart from other software engineering?
• To enable our growth we need more and more warehouses. What do we need to get a warehouse live from a WMS and/or warehouse mechanization perspective?
• To what extent do you need access to the physical parts?
• Do we use simulation?

Guests

• Frank Lakerveld – WMS consultant in Logistics
• Dennis van Duijn - Systems Engineer in Logistics

Notes

• Simulation and Data Science for our warehouses
• Performance boost the picking algorithm
• The life of a WMS consultant