Simulate – Validate Your Actual Design

As your design emerges from the concept stage, Kiva can apply simulation modeling expertise to validate that your solution will meet expected performance criteria.  We've spent over eight years developing our own discrete-event simulation model to include extreme fidelity on solution details.  Our models include actual Kiva storage pod configurations and bin sizes, real-world ranges for human time-and-motion operations and pick rates, specific customer layouts, equipment travel paths, and customer order patterns.  The model is capable of simulating a solution running for multiple years that incorporates over 1 million SKUs and more than 1 million order lines per day.

We run these analyses with your SKU data, your order profiles, your shift schedules, and your building layout.  This allows you to 'see for yourself' how the Kiva solution will operate in your environment, de-mystifying and reducing project risk.

The process leads to a robust solution with validated:

• Building layouts and movement patterns
• Capacity and throughput
• Equipment counts for inventory storage pods, stations, and chargers
• Target pick rates, operator utilization and sensitivity
• Operating plans and schedules

The simulation above shows a close-up view of workers in pick stations.