StowPilot
An AI warehouse slotting and pick-path platform that re-slots SKUs by velocity, plans pick waves, and routes pickers on the shortest path — cutting walk distance per pick.
// The Warehouse Control board — facility KPIs, a 12-week walk-distance trend falling from 114 ft to 88 ft, and a re-slotting queue ranked by walk saved.
Overview
StowPilot gives a third-party logistics operator an AI control room for the pick operation. It ranks every SKU by velocity into A/B/C classes, re-slots fast movers into golden-zone forward pick, batches orders into balanced waves, and sequences each picker on the shortest serpentine route across their aisles. BuildspaceLabs designed and built the MVP front end — a Warehouse Control dashboard for facility-wide triage and a single re-slotting recommendation view that draws the before/after bin on a warehouse aisle grid — turning a slotting-optimization engine and a stream of pick history into moves an ops lead can approve in seconds.
Highlights
- Cuts average walk distance per pick from 114 ft to 88 ft by re-slotting the building
- Turns velocity signals into ranked, one-click re-slotting moves for the ops lead
- Routes every wave on the shortest serpentine path across each picker's aisles
- Every move is explainable — feet saved, confidence, and the bin it picked and why
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Outcomes
- Delivered a production-quality MVP of the Warehouse Control board and re-slot detail view in a 9-week engagement
- Consolidated slotting, wave planning, and pick routing into a single ops-lead workflow
- Cut modeled average walk distance per pick from 114 ft to 88 ft across the facility
- Established a reusable design system (velocity pills, aisle-grid map, confidence bars) for the product's next surfaces
Tech Stack
Chosen per constraint, not per habit — the stack shifts with the problem.
Features
- Warehouse Control board with live orders-in-wave, pick rate, walk-per-pick, and slot-utilization KPIs
- Velocity re-slotting engine that ranks SKUs into A/B/C classes and suggests moves by walk saved
- Shortest-path pick routing that sequences each wave into a single serpentine per picker
- Wave planning that batches orders by zone and cart to stop aisle backtracking
- 12-week walk-distance-per-pick trend chart and facility slot-utilization tracking
- Re-slot detail with a warehouse aisle grid, projected savings, pick-frequency sparklines, and an explainable rationale
See StowPilot as its own site.
Beyond the build, we designed and shipped StowPilot a standalone landing page — its own look, copy and motion. Here's a live preview; scroll inside it, or open it full-screen.
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