St. Onge Company’s Norm Saenz recently published an article about balancing art and science in warehouse design for Modern Materials Handling. Warehouse layout design combines data-driven analysis with practical considerations like operator comfort, flexibility, variability, and real-world workflow. The best designs strike the right balance between mathematical optimization and practical experience, creating operations that can perform efficiently while adapting to change.
“That is why the most successful warehouse operations are rarely the most mathematically optimized. Science gives you an optimal answer, but art determines whether that answer can survive reality.”
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