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First there was IBM’s Deep Blue<\/strong> – which beat the world’s greatest chess player…<\/p>\n

Then there was IBM Watson<\/strong> – which won TV’s Jeopardy!<\/em><\/strong> game show…<\/p>\n

Now, there’s CloudLogic\u00ae<\/strong>, a gaming-based decision engine that analyzes your warehouse… \u00a0move by move… \u00a0up to thousands of times per second!<\/p>\n

In the past, legacy systems operated based upon a “pick plan<\/em>” established as soon as an order was received. \u00a0One picker. One department. One order at a time.<\/p>\n

…maybe the legacy systems could handle batch picking as well, but still – they were (and are) based on a static plan for picking.<\/p>\n

CloudLogic\u00ae changes all of that.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now, each pick is evaluated from the “cloud” of all possible picks, and the optimal next move is assigned via CloudLogic\u00ae.<\/p>\n

CloudLogic\u00ae evaluates the warehouse just like Deep Blue would evaluate a chess board<\/strong> to make the next move, only CloudLogic\u00ae considers:<\/p>\n