Business Scenario:

• Fast-moving and slow-moving products mixed across storage types

• Seasonal demand changes (same material behaves differently across months)

• Picking performance currently poor due to bad bin placement

• Goal:

  • Reduce picker travel time

  • Improve throughput

  • Optimize bin utilization

Challenges We Are Facing:

• Difficulty defining correct slotting criteria

• Rearrangement proposals sometimes unrealistic for operations

• Conflict between operational convenience vs system-optimized bins

• Business struggling to accept frequent rearrangement tasks

• Performance impact when running slotting jobs on large datasets

My Question:

What are the best practices for designing a practical and effective Slotting & Rearrangement strategy in SAP EWM?

Specifically looking for guidance on:

• How to define meaningful slotting criteria (weight, cube, demand, velocity)

• How often rearrangement should realistically be executed

• How to balance operational feasibility with system optimization

• Real project lessons learned (what worked, what failed)

• Performance considerations when using slotting in large warehouses