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Order Fulfillment System Supports New Retail Operations
A major outdoor apparel and equipment retailer was expanding beyond catalog sales and planned to operate as many as 70 regional retail and factory stores by the year 2012. As a result, an automated order fulfillment system was designed and integrated to support its retail business.
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DSC Logistics improves labor utilization and customer service through Workforce Management
With workforce management, DSC increased labor utilization by 20%, achieved 100% of performance standards in 6-8 weeks and saw a significant payroll savings. Their WFM solution consisted of engineered best practices and standards, change management consulting, and advanced labor management software for real-time performance monitoring and reporting.
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Briggs & Stratton expedites move to new facility and improves throughput 10 percent through use of slotting application
Briggs & Stratton’s major challenge was moving a complex packaging and distribution operation that ships over 22 million parts annually while continuing to fulfill replacement parts orders. The implementation of a dynamic pick-face slotting application that integrated with their workforce management system created an efficient design, minimized effort and travel distances while speeding up fulfillment operations and reducing costs.
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Kaplan Early Learning Improves Customer Service and Inventory Accuracy with Best-of-Breed Warehouse Management System
Kaplan Early Learning customers range in size from large schools with sophisticated DCs to smaller schools, daycare facilities and individual parents. To meet a variety of customer needs, they required a flexible system that would allow them to automate processes, gain efficiencies and improve accuracy.
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Store Order Fulfillment System Helps Intimate Apparel Company Manage Growth
As part of an effort to manage the company’s growth and improve efficiency, an international intimate apparel company implemented a new state-of-the-art material handling system for its distribution center.
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LEADING RETAIL DISTRIBUTION CENTER GETS RE-VAMPED WITH THREE VLMs
One of the world’s leading Retail Perfume Distribution Centers, located in New Jersey, needed a new approach to their overall process once they decided to consolidate all distribution into their existing facility. Through their brands the company designs, produces and distributes high-quality personal luxury goods, they also directly operate stores in the major markets throughout the world.
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New, Fully Integrated Put to Light and Shipping System Solution gives Music & Video Distributor Added Speed, Capacity and Visibility
How can you improve productivity in an order fulfillment operation that is already utilizing an automated order sortation methodology? This was the challenge facing a leading specialty retailer of entertainment software, music, home video and video games with nearly 1,000 locations throughout the United States. The company’s eCommerce distribution center in Carson, CA was being pushed beyond capacity by a big influx of internet orders.
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Fashion Accessories Retailer Reduces Shortage Allowances for Major Retail Customers Through Using Pick to Light Solution
An international designer, manufacturer and distributor of fashion accessories was fulfilling its strategic plan to become a top supplier of belts, wallets, handbags and other products to major retail customers. Largely through acquisitions the supplier’s successful growth plan presented their distribution operations with increased order volume and a unique challenge on how to meet it. What solution would enable increased throughput of their national brand name and proprietary label products to customers without physical expansion of their current distribution center?
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Pack to Light Solution Supports Fast Flow-Through Store Order Fulfillment for Close-Out Merchandise Retailer
A dynamic retail chain specializing in selling deeply discounted, closeout home accessories and gifts faced some unique order fulfillment challenges in supplying their nearly 800 stores across the United States.
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Catalog Distributor Meets Rising Volumes and Improves Customer Service with a new Pick to Light and Container Routing System.
Rapid growth presented a cataloger of paper products, gifts and home decorating items with a major challenge. How could they process more orders than ever before, and do it with higher levels of speed, accuracy and cost efficiency to provide their customers with the best service possible?
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Pick to Light Solution Saves Direct Selling Company $1.5 Million in Labor
Since its founding in 1992, a direct selling / e-commerce business had been using a paper order picking methodology. By 2000 their product range expanded to over 1,500 SKUs, including vitamins, cosmetics, cleaning supplies and automotive products. The company distributors had also grown to over 100,000 worldwide, and most of them had started using the direct seller’s website to place orders expecting faster order processing.
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Large SPANCO Jib Crane Helps Keep Food Redistribution Forklift Fleet Running Efficiently
One of the nation’s largest food redistributors manages a 275,000 square foot facility that is used as a redistribution hub for dry, frozen and refrigerated food products. Because forklifts are a core component of the redistribution center, downtime due to maintenance can translate into a loss of profit. Installation of the SPANCO jib brought immediate value to the maintenance department. Daily battery change outs could be done more efficiently and no longer required the presence of two employees. Previously a motor change out took as long as an hour and a half could now be accomplished in 10 to 15 minutes.
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High Performance Picking System Eliminates Replenishment Labor
A high performance picking system (HPPS), an intelligent combination of mechanics and software, met project requirements for a redesigned central warehouse and distribution center of a European cutlery supplier. The pick-to-light system, storage and retrieval machines allow for the quick, efficient and ergonomic replenishment of stock. The HPPS eliminated labor and automatically re-slotted slow moving SKUs.
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R&M’s Spacemaster® SX Electric Wire Rope Hoists and Components in a Magnet Crane Application
The project required a 40 ton capacity double girder top running crane with two (2) 20 ton capacity hoists equipped with magnets for use in a CMAA Class D Service steel plate handling application. This heavy-duty application also called for a high hoisting speed, high trolley travel sped and a high bridge travel speed. The location for this application was under a roof with the sides of the building open exposing the equipment to the elements.
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Demag KBK Enclosed Track Crane with Manipulator Arm
Installation of front and rear axles at a compact car assembly plant required a custom designed handling system that could safely lift, transfer and manipulate these awkward parts into the correct position for installation.
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Demag KBK Enclosed Track Monorail for a Dip Tank Sequence
A parts manufacturer needed a way to quickly and carefully transfer parts up to 500 lbs. through a multi-stage dip tank sequence without suffering damage. Operator safety and ergonomics throughout this operation were top priority.
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Telescoping Bridge Helps Overcome Spacing Issues
Work Station Crane w/Telescoping Bridge with Chain Hoist helps overcome spacing issues for a supplier of machined components. “The telescoping WSC allowed us to maximize our available space while keeping the work area free of obstructions”. Machining operations occur in order across three different CNC machines, located side by side, arranged in a line. Operators are required to take a blank out of dunnage, perform a brief machining operation on a workbench in front of them and then load the blank into a CNC machine. The machined part is then unload and placed into finished dunnage and moved to the next process in the line if needed.
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Work Station Crane’s Flexibility Wins Customer’s Loyalty
An Electric Lift Truck Manufacturer needed a work station crane to lift truck parts of different sized and shapes from a steel cart and moved into a room where precision measuring takes place on a laser measuring table. They needed a system for their fragile application and have the flexibility to change or add to it as need in the field.
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Well Planned Hoist Maintenance Program Reduces Downtime Significantly
“At the heart of the success of the plant is the organized maintenance program”. Very often, usual hoist wear and tear produces ordinary breakdowns that derail a process or plant for more time than is actually necessary. Regular inspection and maintenance can have a dramatic effect on the efficiency of production, safety awareness and overall profitability. Much of the downtime produced by breakdowns and maintenance has been reduced or eliminated by the implementation of a well thought out and organized maintenance program.
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R&M’s Stagemaker® Concert Hoist with Raynok Motion Control System
The project required eight (8) electric chain hoists to move video projectors to various preset levels during worship services in a Houston, Texas church. The key requirements for the equipment were – the ability to have pre-programmed cues, the repeat accuracy of the hoist hook positions, the ability to adjust the hook positions if needed during and between cues of the service, and to not hear the hoists while in operation.
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