Most warehouse automation systems focus on speeding up the pick. But what if the biggest bottleneck is actually where your inventory is stored? That’s just one of the problems Brightpick solves — not just by picking faster, but by constantly reorganising your warehouse in the background so you’re always ready for today’s and tomorrow’s challenges.
Welcome to the power of AI-powered warehouse slotting — an often-overlooked capability that can drastically boost throughput, reduce picker travel time, and transform how your operation performs day to day.
The Slotting Challenge in Traditional Warehouse Systems
In many tote-based storage systems, tote locations are essentially static. Once a bin is placed in the system, it tends to stay put — unless a warehouse manager schedules a manual re-slotting based on sales trends, velocity, or changes in demand.
The reality?
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Re-slotting is time-consuming
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It often requires stopping the system or running dedicated cycles
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It relies heavily on human planning and execution
This limits agility and slows down the very processes the automation was meant to enhance.
Brightpick Rewrites the Rulebook
Brightpick has taken warehouse slotting to an entirely new level with its AI-powered warehouse slotting, built into its warehouse orchestration software: Brightpick Intuition.
Here’s how it works:
Brightpick’s AI Intuition Software Analyses Your Operation
Brightpick continuously learns from your order history, forecasted demand, SKU velocity, and even the time of day certain items are picked.
Warehouse Optimises in Real Time
Based on this intelligence, Brightpick Intuition automatically decides the most efficient storage location for each tote — ensuring high-demand items are always within easy reach of the robots or operators at the Brightpick Goods to Person Flow Station.
Tote Relocation Executes While You Sleep
Best of all, Brightpick’s Autopickers can carry out the slotting movements autonomously, for example, overnight with lights out, during off-peak hours or simply when an Autopicker Bot is not picking. This allows the warehouse to be continuously optimised without interrupting normal operations.
The Result? Next-Level Automated Warehouse Performance
Brightpick’s AI-powered dynamic slotting ensures:
- Faster pick times – because your most in-demand items are always closest to the pick point
- Higher throughput – the system is primed for performance every shift
- Smarter labour use – fewer steps, less waiting, better ergonomics
- Continuous optimisation – the warehouse is always learning and improving
And unlike other systems, Brightpick doesn’t require you to stop, replan, or reconfigure. It’s built for a world that never stops moving.
More Than Just Dynamic Slotting – Brightpick Offers A Complete Fulfilment Platform
Dynamic slotting is just one piece of what makes Brightpick so unique. It’s part of a fully integrated robotic picking platform that combines multiple technologies to deliver a best-in-class fulfilment solution:
In-Aisle Robotic Picking
Robots pick directly from standard racking, navigating aisles just like human pickers — but faster, safer, and 24/7.
In-Motion Picking
Brightpick Autopickers pick items while in motion — eliminating idle time and dramatically increasing pick speeds.
Flow Picking Stations
For SKUs that are awkward or hard to robotically pick, Brightpick’s Flow Picking offers high-throughput Goods-to-Person fulfilment with up to 8 totes presented at once.
FastLane
Enables rapid order prioritisation — perfect for same-day delivery, priority customers, or high-value orders.
Giraffe Bots
These specialised robots retrieve totes from high shelving and bring them to ground-level Autopickers for seamless integration of vertical storage.
Together, these innovations don’t just automate part of your operation — they intelligently coordinate your entire order fulfilment process, from slotting and picking to buffering and dispatch.
The Future Is Flexible, Fast — and Fully Optimised
In a world of rising order volumes, increasing SKU complexity, and shrinking delivery windows, automation needs to be smarter, not just faster.
Brightpick delivers that intelligence — with a system that thinks ahead, adapts in real time, and constantly optimises itself around your operation. It’s not just robotic picking. It’s automated decision-making at the heart of your warehouse.
And with deployment in just weeks — not months — it’s a future that’s closer than you think.
Thistle Systems is proud to be the UK integration partner for Brightpick, bringing this world-class automation technology to warehouses across the UK.
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