Hello first time poster. This is a best parctices question for restocking picking locations. Our current practice is that we stock our products in two types of locations. Pick locations and overstock reserve locations. When a pick location needs to be restocked and alert is sent out and the restocker grabs a pallet from the reserve location. He then fills the pick location to its maximum quantity. This is where the question comes in. Some cases the pick location needing filled can take the whole pallet from the reserve location. In this case the restocker will make the pick location pallet have an even layer and then take the restock pallet, pallet and product, and place it in the pick location, thus leaving two pallets. The location has been filled however there are now two pallets. There is back in forth between my supervisors. One saying that it saves time to put the whole pallet in the pick location. The other states its a saftey issue and creates extra work to have to work around mutliple pallets in a location. Question, finally, would best practice be to stock the location full piece by piece and store the empty pallet after the restock or continue the current method of placing the whole pallet in the pick location leaving multiple pallets after the restock. These are in rack locations.

Your help and expertise from the forum greatly appreciate.

Thank you