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Putaway efficiency sounds like a warehouse scheduling problem, but in practice it is a systems problem. The moment you ask, “How do we get product into the right home faster?” you end up touching layout, pick paths, item velocity, containerization, and the rules that decide when and where replenishment happens. I have seen teams fix slow putaway only to create new bottlenecks elsewhere. Maybe the putaway labor cost drops for a week, then receiving throughput stutters bec