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Warehousing: The Hidden Goldmine in Your Supply Chain
Modern warehousing is the nerve center of supply chain excellence. Every move, every decision, every second here counts. It’s the difference between customers who rave about your service and those who quietly switch to competitors. What looks like routine operations often hides inefficiencies that quietly erode margins and customer satisfaction.
The cracks are costing you:
- Inefficient layouts and poor task sequencing create bottlenecks, rework, and excessive travel time.
- Lack of real-time visibility across inbound, picking, and dispatch lets small issues grow unchecked.
- Misallocated resources and long dwell times slow throughput and delay shipments.
- Disconnected systems block the data-driven insight needed for confident decisions.
How FUTUROOT Delivers
You can’t improve what you don’t measure. Warehouse success hinges on a handful of metrics that reveal the truth behind performance. Process mining transforms warehouses by turning raw data into actionable intelligence. It shows you what’s happening and reveals why, and how to fix it before it hurts your bottom line.
FUTUROOT makes process mining radically accessible and radically effective. It empowers every warehouse to operate like a world-class facility with its own mission control center. With intelligent diagnostics and AI-driven recommendations, you see everything, control everything, fix problems and keep your team performing at peak level.
To learn more about PerciScan + FUTUROOT scroll down.
FUTUROOT impacts the core metrics by:
Dock-to-Stock Time
FUTUROOT helps you accelerate inbound and receiving processes, ensuring goods become usable inventory faster.
Put away Cycle Time
By providing intelligent routing and optimal assignments, FUTUROOT ensures you are storing smart, not stalling.
Order Picking Lead Time
It exposes delays in task sequencing and resource allocation, helping you eliminate friction in fulfillment.
Picking Error Rate
FUTUROOT detects and prevents errors, saving time and money while protecting customer trust.
Dispatch Lead Time
By monitoring dwell times and optimising staging and dock scheduling, FUTUROOT helps you get packed orders out the door quickly.
With FUTUROOT you get:
- Deep operational visibility — from receiving to dispatch.
- Automated bottleneck detection — before problems escalate.
- AI-powered optimisation — predictive, not reactive.
- Continuous improvement — driven by data, not guesswork.
How FUTUROOT works
| Focus Area | How FUTUROOT Powers Results | KPI Levers Impacted |
|---|---|---|
| Inbound & Receiving | Tracks dock-to-stock time, eliminates waste, and optimises unloading. | Dock-to-Stock Time, Receiving Accuracy |
| Put away Operations | Provides intelligent routing and optimal assignments for put-away mastery. | Put Away Cycle Time, Location Utilisation |
| Picking & Packing | Detects errors, automates sequencing, and boosts speed and accuracy. | Picking Error Rate, Order Picking Lead Time |
| Staging & Dispatch | Monitors dwell time and streamlines dock scheduling. | Dispatch Lead Time, On-Time Delivery |
| Returns & Rework | Traces root causes and resolves issues at the source. | Returns Rate, Rework Cost |
The FUTUROOT and PerciScan Solution : Turn Your Warehouse from a Cost Center into a Strategic Asset
What is PerciScan?
PerciScan is a powerful warehouse scanning solution designed to capture the digital footprint of every operational event. It records and timestamps every item movement, location, and user interaction, providing the foundational data for a precise, real-time record of everything happening on your warehouse floor. However, while, most warehouse scanning apps stop at operational tracking, PerciScan, by embedding process intelligence, becomes an intelligent warehouse execution platform.
Why is PersiScan + FUTUROOT a Game Changer?
By embedding process mining, PerciScan becomes an “intelligent warehouse execution platform”—a differentiation that sets it apart from other scanning apps that stop at operational tracking. Together, PerciScan and FUTUROOT create a closed-loop system unlocking a new level of operational mastery. PerciScan captures the digital footprint of every warehouse event, and FUTUROOT instantly transforms that raw data into actionable insights, helping you to unlock strategic value through specific, powerful use cases.
What FUTUROOT + PerciScan Offer
Picking Process Execution vs. Bin Strategy
Objective: Compare actual picking sequences against your SAP-defined bin strategies to uncover hidden inefficiencies.
How it works: We extract PerciScan logs and use FUTUROOT to align them with your SAP bin strategies. FUTUROOT’s process intelligence then shows deviations where workers take a longer route or bypass optimal bins.
Value: By generating conformance scores and heatmaps of frequently skipped bins, you can improve adherence, reduce wasted time, and drive better picking efficiency with a lower labour cost.
Simulation – What-If Scenarios for Picking Paths
Objective: Test alternate picking strategies (e.g., volume-based, product fragility, aisle congestion) in a digital twin of your warehouse—without physical trials.
How it works: We use historical PerciScan logs to create a living model of your warehouse operations. We use FUTUROOT’s simulation models to forecast the impact of different scenarios on average pick time, total distance walked, and order cycle time.
Value: You get data-driven insights to boost workforce productivity and comparative charts that show the KPI impact of each scenario, giving you the data to make smarter decisions and continuously optimise your operations.
Dashboard – Parked Orders & Stock Maintenance
Objective: Get real-time visibility into stalled picking orders and stock-related bottlenecks.
How it works: We use FUTUROOT to track all scan events (pick started, paused, resumed, completed) to detect order aging and long dwell times in specific bins. We then correlate this with stock discrepancies to identify parked or stalled orders by user, bin, or SKU.
Value: You gain a real-time dashboard of parked orders per user and bin hotspots with recurrent partial picks. This allows for timely interventions on stock discrepancies and improves inventory accuracy.
Workforce Analytics – Picker Productivity & Compliance
Objective: Track efficiency, compliance, and fatigue patterns across warehouse workers.
How it works: We assign every scanner event to a worker and build individual process models for time per pick and path efficiency against SAP strategy. We highlight outliers for high deviation, excessive re-picks, or low scan frequency.
Value: You can identify top performers, diagnose training needs, and make data-driven decisions on shift realignment to boost workforce productivity and compliance.
Related Resources
blog
Process Mining: An X-Ray to Transform Your Supply Chain Function
FUTUROOT’s process mining reveals hidden supply chain inefficiencies, enabling data-driven improvements that make operations agile, resilient, and self-optimising.
case study
Fact-Based Inventory Process Discovery
FUTUROOT provided full visibility into a 20-year-old inventory system for a European food distributor, mapping 87 scenarios, eliminating 45% of redundant processes, and enabling a rapid, fact-based SAP Vistex transformation.