The team worked closely with the client to determine their growth ambitions as well as understand what their current day-to-day challenges were. Utilizing information gained from on-site experience in addition to data uncovered from their ERP system and industry benchmarks, the evaluation phase uncovered several performance improvement opportunities geared towards level-loading the business in the short term and creating sustainable scalability in the long-term:
Increase pallet capacity and shorten walking paths by redesigning warehousing facilities
Mitigate the shipping & receiving backlog by standardizing and automating the process
Increase workstation productivity by implementing a visual management system
To capitalize on these opportunities, we tested, piloted, and implemented these solutions at 9 distribution centers across the US.