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Spatial Intelligence: your warehouse as a map, not a list

Most inventory software treats a warehouse as a flat list of bin codes. Yours isn't flat. Spatial Intelligence puts the real shape of your floor into Nautilus.

Most inventory software models a warehouse as a flat list of location codes. But your warehouse isn't flat. It has wide aisles and narrow ones, dead ends, a forklift turnaround that snarls traffic at predictable times, and a cold room you have to walk around to reach the back of a section. A flat list knows none of that.

Spatial Intelligence is how the real shape of your floor gets into the software.

Lay it out once, or start from your floor plan

In the facility builder you lay out your sections and the bays and levels inside them. If you already have a floor plan, upload an image of it and Nautilus drafts the sections for you, so you're correcting a draft instead of starting from a blank page. The locations you create are the same ones your team scans.

Why a spatial model is worth having

Once every location has a place on the floor, the layout stops living in one person's head. You can look at the building in 2D or 3D, and a new hire can find a bay without asking anyone.

It also changes how work is sequenced. Pick waves are grouped by zone and ordered in walk order, so a picker works through the building instead of down an alphabetical list that has no idea two adjacent codes can sit at opposite ends of it.