How to Improve Your Warehousing Flow with Slimbox

Whether you are a small business owner, a warehouse manager, or a 3PL partner, your warehousing flowchart probably looks something like this: receiving → unloading and inspection → storage → picking and packaging →shipping and dispatching. Warehousing is far more than just a storage site for products–it’s about controlling the flow of inventory from arrival to departure. Efficiency and organization are key to making the flow as smooth as possible. Whether it’s carefully orchestrating an efficient layout design or determining the appropriate warehouse labor distribution, we here at Slimbox understand the unique challenges that may arise when streamlining the process.

Optimizing Your Flow

There are several different processes a warehouse may use to store and pick their products: an automated storage and retrieval system, manual processes with a dedicated picker and/or packer, batch picking, discrete picking. Regardless of the method, Slimbox can be seamlessly integrated into the flow process in the warehouse to eliminate inefficiencies at the packing station. We work together with our customers to create an efficient instream and outstream of products that works best for you–and we only install once we’ve reviewed and tested the flow together to ensure the best possible solution.

Slimbox: The Perfect Fit Into Your Warehouse Flow

Slimbox is more than just a packaging machine that produces the perfectly fitted box for your products every single time. We design a perfectly fitted packaging flow that operates cohesively within your warehousing operations to save time, avoid bottlenecks, and reduce costs and waste. The secret? FastFlow© Technology. With the patented FastFlow© system, a single operator can perfectly package an e-commerce product in under one minute, while Slimbox is already crafting the next box. 

What might an effective packing station look like with FastFlow©?

1. Use the Slimbox measuring tool, the Slimbox product scanner (new!), or our API to connect with your ERP/WMS,  to send the dimensions of your product to your Slimbox.

2. The Slimbox produces the perfectly fitted box. 

3. The Slimbox is an extension of your packaging station, which means it delivers the box directly to the packer.

4. While the packer packages the product using our patented packing tool, Slimbox is already producing the next box in under 60 seconds for a seamless, continuous packing flow.

5. Packing is made quick and easy with some tape or glue, and is then labeled and ready to ship. 

6. Rinse and repeat!

Shipping is easy and efficient with perfectly fitted boxes as it reduces volume, saves space, and in some cases can qualify for standard courier rates with pallet-sized deliveries. 

The FastFlow© Result

This time-saving flow allows for up to 500 small to medium-sized products to be perfectly packaged within one 8 hour shift. No more time lost on mismatched standard box sizes, no more bottlenecks, and less material wasted. Slimbox packaging isn’t just automated, it’s optimized for flow.

One Perfect Fit

When designing a custom flow for you, Slimbox considers all angles–layout, safety, labor distribution, diverse product shapes and sizes, and even returns processing. Slimbox is scalable to all warehouse operations, whether manual, automated, or hybrid. Read more about our packaging solution for MAAAT as a 3PL warehouser here.

Ready to transform your packaging? Let’s talk flow!

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