In today’s era it has become extremely important to maximize the efficiency of warehouses and DC’s. Russell Meller, professor of industrial engineering and director of the Center for Engineering Logistics and Distribution at the University of Arkansas, and Kevin Gue, engineering professor at Auburn University, studied varios pallet rack configurations within warehouses and observed that despite the increasing demand for a faster distribution of products, conventional designs of distribution centers have not changed.

The researchers developed a new V-Shaped model called, ”Fishbone Aisles.”  They found that instituting diagonal cross rows in a warehouse led to an extreme increase in productivity. Meller said tests revealed that the cost to make a pick in the 21-aisle warehouse is 20.4 percent lower than in an equivalent traditional warehouse with the same total length of picking aisles.

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