Stockroom organisation for faster refills

Bins earn their keep on the second visit

Mapping products to bins feels like overhead until the first time someone new works a Saturday. The difference between “find the navy medium” and “bin C-4” is most of the time in a refill run.

Start with your fastest hundred lines. A partial map that covers most of the traffic beats a complete map you never finish.

Route order is yours to define

Zones, aisles, shelves and bins are sequenced in whatever order you actually walk. Change the sequence and every future run reorders.

This follows the order you describe. It has no floor plan and no distances, so it cannot invent a better route than the one you gave it — and it will not pretend to.

Unmapped items stay visible

Products with no bin sort to the end of the run rather than being hidden. Hiding them would let a run look finished when part of it was never routed, which is worse than an untidy list.

There is a report of what is unmapped, so the gap shrinks as a background task rather than a project.

Common questions

What if a product lives in more than one bin?

Set a primary and any number of alternates in priority order. Put-away suggests the primary while it has room, then the alternates, then overflow — and warns if something is scanned into a bin it does not belong in.

Other guides

• Replacing Stocky’s Fill Shelves workflow

  Stocky is going away and Fill Shelves is the part my staff use daily.

• Choosing a Stocky replacement

  Which app do I move to, and am I replacing one thing or several?

• How a Fill Shelves workflow works

  I understand the idea. What are the actual moving parts?