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Interactive supply chain engineering applications for understanding warehouse operations, optimizing storage, and planning future capacity.

Built with Python and Streamlit, these tools combine simulation, analytics, optimization, and visualization to help users explore complex operational decisions.

Understand how your warehouse operates

 

The Warehouse Profiler transforms operational data into interactive dashboards covering inbound, outbound, inventory, returns, customers, suppliers, and overall performance.

Explore:

  • Time-series trends and seasonality

  • Order, inventory, trailer, and customer profiles

  • SKU activity and storage duration

  • Space and resource utilization

  • Throughput, quality, accuracy, and process performance

  • Relationships between operational variables

Best for: operational diagnostics, data exploration, warehouse profiling, and early-stage solution design.

Design smarter storage and slotting strategies

Slotting Studio is a modular workspace for evaluating rack configurations, tote requirements, warehouse layouts, and inventory-placement strategies.

Current modules include:

  • Rack Optimizer: Determine rack-height configurations using item dimensions and clustering.

  • Tote Calculator: Simulate item orientation and assign SKUs to suitable tote sizes.

  • Heatmap: Visualize warehouse and slot-level attributes from multiple perspectives.

  • Warehouse Simulation: Evaluate picker routing, replenishment, and warehouse travel.

Future modules will support zone sizing, item-to-slot optimization, and move generation.

Best for: storage design, slotting analysis, warehouse layout evaluation, and travel reduction.

Translate demand into labor, storage, and investment requirements

The Capacity Planner supports demand forecasting, workforce planning, storage sizing, and automation financial analysis within one integrated workspace.

Current modules include:

  • Demand Forecaster: Compare time-series forecasting methods and evaluate forecast error.

  • Labor Planner: Build staffing plans across shifts, roles, overtime, hiring, and attrition.

  • Storage Requirements Estimator: Estimate pallet, case, and unit-level storage needs.

  • Automation ROI Calculator: Compare manual and automated operations using savings, ROI, payback, and cash flow.

Best for: annual planning, workforce strategy, storage-capacity analysis, and automation business cases.

Data Privacy

Uploaded files are used solely to perform the requested analysis. Data is processed temporarily in memory and is not intentionally stored, retained, or reused by these applications.

The tools are hosted on Streamlit Community Cloud, which maintains SOC 2 Type 1 controls focused on the security and confidentiality of information processed by the platform. Additional details are available on Streamlit’s Trust and Security page.

Disclaimer

These tools are provided for educational, demonstration, and preliminary analysis purposes. Results depend on the quality of the data, assumptions, and user inputs. Users are responsible for reviewing and validating all outputs before relying on them for operational, financial, or investment decisions.

© 2023 by Kyle O'Brien

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