About
We learned slotting by standing in replenishment queues
System Anchorgrid exists because location lists drawn in a meeting room fail the first time a reach truck cannot make the turn. The practice is small on purpose: the same people who read the extract walk the aisle.
Origin
Correspondence is handled from 58 North Road, Nereabolls, PA48 7SH, United Kingdom — a quiet office on Islay, far from most of the sheds we visit. That distance is deliberate. The work is on your floor; the write-up is done where nobody can pull us into an unrelated firefight about yesterday’s short pick.
Moira Henshaw started the practice after years supervising grocery pick faces. She had inherited location schemes that looked logical on a printout and cruel at 05:30. Callum Bridie and Priya Nair joined because the visits needed a truck-aware walker and someone who would argue with the extract until it matched the pallet labels.
How we work with a site
We ask for a named host, aisle access, and a movement file that covers a representative stretch — not a single quiet Tuesday. We will not invent pick rates or promise labour savings as a percentage. We will say when a location swap is blocked by beam height, sprinkler clearance, or a fire lane you cannot move.
Values that actually constrain us: we brief shift leads before labels print; we keep cold-store time limited; we refuse to number a new shed until beam levels are confirmed. Courtesy to night-shift crews is not optional. If we cannot attend at the hour your waves run, we say so rather than tour an empty building.
People
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Moira Henshaw
Lead practitioner
Moira spent fourteen years as a warehouse supervisor in grocery before she began drawing slotting maps for other sites. She still times replenishment against the tea break, because that is when the pick face is honest.
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Callum Bridie
Site walker
Callum walks pick paths with a marked plan and a notebook. He came up through reach-truck work and will not recommend a swap that a truck cannot physically make on the aisle width you have.
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Priya Nair
Movement analyst
Priya reads movement extracts against what the floor actually holds. She is the person who notices when ‘A’ lines are slow in cube and fast in units, which is how small bottles colonise the golden zone.
