{"id":23,"date":"2010-01-06T10:13:19","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T15:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.velocitialliance.com\/?page_id=23"},"modified":"2023-01-04T15:27:23","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T20:27:23","slug":"icepick","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/velocitialliance.com\/?page_id=23","title":{"rendered":"IcePick\u00ae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Warehouse companies who distribute product from freezers combat<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> conditions unlike those in any other department.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Initially, warehouse freezer space is more expensive to build; and then it\u2019s more expensive to service than any other grocery department.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Over the past 20 years, SKU growth as a percentage of tota<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">l SKU is higher in the freezer than in any other department.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> Many, if not most of the SKU represent slow, and at best, medium sales volumes.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> Each requires a pick slot, each requires reserve storage, each increases the travel distance required to put-away product, each increases the travel distance required to pick an order.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Workers are subject to frigid conditions, ranging from -8 to as low as -20 degrees Fahrenheit.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> Special compensation and additional \u201cwarm up\u201d breaks all add to the labor cost for freezer operations.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Product picked and shipped in error is expensive t<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">o return and recycle to another customer.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> More typically, discounts are given to encourage the retailer to keep the product.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">For those companies who break cases in the freezer in order to ship single picked items, the order fulfillment process is compounded that much more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">When faced with an abundance of SKU, each requiring a pick slot, the single most significant challenge for freezer distributors is the height of the worker \u2013 they can only reach as high as the length of their arms.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> Once the height factor is used up, to accommodate the challenges, the traditional solution is to make pick slots smaller, either vertically or horizontally.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> Problems escalate once this decision is made. For example, received product is re-palletized to fit a smaller pick slot; and workers are forced to climb below beams to reach product.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">IcePick\u00ae, Velociti Alliance\u2019s solution for freezer operations, typically doubles the product stored in freezers, reduces labor by 30% to 50%, eliminates errors and the cost associated with errors, and increases the number of pick slots by 40% or more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For more information, <a href=\"https:\/\/velocitialliance.com\/?page_id=750\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warehouse companies who distribute product from freezers combat conditions unlike those in any other department. Initially, warehouse freezer space is more expensive to build; and then it\u2019s more expensive to service than any other grocery department. Over the past 20 years, SKU growth as a percentage of total SKU is higher in the freezer than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":6,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-23","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/velocitialliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/velocitialliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/velocitialliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velocitialliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velocitialliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/velocitialliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753,"href":"https:\/\/velocitialliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions\/753"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velocitialliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/velocitialliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}