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AMERICAN
APPAREL, Los Angeles, CA (Totally USA produced product) -
casual/sporting apparel. Designed a one and one-half floor
storage/picking area that used a "fish-bone" layout,
reducing picking time by more than 60%, in a warehousing
space that was 3 times larger than it had been previously. |
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ALPHA
SHIRT, 3 warehouse locations Major distributor to the
printed shirt trade nationwide - Did redesign and re-layout
of all three of their shirt distribution centers |
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COTTON
FACTORY (shopodd.com) |
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FOOTBALL
FANATICS.COM Orange Park, FL Internet supplier of
team-branded sportswear and memorabilia. Designed a new
building layout and picking system. Our major challenge was
slotting products so that picking/walking time would be
greatly reduced, and accuracy of nearly 100%. |
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REVOLUTION
DANCEWEAR Chicago, IL Large mailorder and Internet
distributor of dance shoes and other dancewear to dance
studios across the US and canada |
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SHOEMETRO (www.shoemetro.com)
12,000 sq ft warehouse to support an Ebay vender of
remaindered shoes and boots of all types |
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AMERICA
STORE Retailer of many "America" related patriotic gift
items at Airport stores and over the internet. |
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Walrus Brands,
Chicago, IL
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ISACO International,
Miami FL, Major importer of sleepware for EDI market. |
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Manhattan
Beachwear, Los Angeles, CA
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COMMUNICATIONS |
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Alltel
Communications Atlanta, a major cell phone company. Achieved a
$255,000 annual savings in direct pick labor in their 2
W/H facilities in Georgia and Arkansas. |
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Vincent Haung &
Assoc., Industry, CA AKA V-pin.com
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TECHNOCEL.
A major importer of cell phone accessories. When they were
about to make an expensive and risky move to a much larger
building, they contacted us. After we increased their pallet
cube capacity by 210%, we were also able to provide a method
to cut their packing labor by over 100%, with no capital
cost. Due to these innovations, they were able to plan to
remain in their current facility for at least one more year. |
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Intelex, Inc.,
Carmel, IN
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DRUG and COSMETICS |
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BORSCHOW
DRUG DIST. Puerto Rico The major distributor of drugs
& hospital supplies in Puerto Rico. Space on the island is
very tight and expensive so we designed a new facility that
utilized building height and cube to maximum extent
possible. |
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CARDINAL
HEALTHCARE. Salt Lake City, UT, A major, nationwide drug distributor. Brought in
as a "second pair of eyes" to review their operation
cost-reduction possibilities. Our plan provided a 19 %
reduction in total warehouse labor - in an already well-run
operation! |
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CLAIROL
Stamford, CT Designed a case distribution system for the
main hair care products distribution center that almost
doubled case pick productivity and was a Featured System in
Modern Material Handling Magazine |
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Dermstore,
Redding, CA
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Mystic Tan,
Addison, TX
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Netrition,
Albany, NY
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REVLON, Edison, NJ One
of the largest International cosmetic companies. |
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Sanofi-Synthelabo,
Malvern, PA One of the largest drug companies in the world. |
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MUSCLETECH
Buffalo, NY Major distributor of health and bodybuilding
supplements and food bars. Designed and laid out a new
200,000 sq. ft. distribution center. By changing the
building design (before construction), we increased pallet
space by 18%, and using 3 deep pallet flow rack, we cut case
pick time by 67%! |
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FOOD and BEVERAGES |
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PARAMOUNT
FARMS Central CA, Largest grower and distributor of
pistachio nuts in US |
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BUDCO LTD, San
Antonio, TX 7th largest
Anheuser
Busch
distributor in the US. Developed a new layout to allow
doubling of refrigerated picking and staging areas to allow
for rapid growth without requiring multi-million dollar
building expansion. |
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HANNAFORD'S
HOMERUNS Home grocery delivery company. Designed
and programmed a highly productive order processing, staging
and picking system using radio frequency (RF) pick
terminals that yielded pick rates of over 300 lines/hour
on all grocery items. |
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TRADER JOES
Boston, MA Dry grocery, frozen and perishable provider. We
provided a storage layout and pick area design for a new
warehouse. Using a proper layout design, we reduced the
planned building and refrigeration space by about 30%. |
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PATHMARK
SUPERMARKETS Designed and then managed their first non-foods
distribution center in Edison N.J. Reduced the budget for
equipping the new facility by over $1,000,000, and then
achieved significant budget cost reductions each year over
the next 7 years of operation. |
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Casco Canada,
Cardinal, ON
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Corn Products
International, Bedford Park, IL
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Republic Of Tea,
Nashville, IL
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PREMIER
BEVERAGES, Antigua, Designed a new, (much larger facility)
layout for the largest wine and liquor distributor in
Antigua, which included a specialized refrigeration area. |
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ELECTRONIC PARTS and EQUIPMENT |
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Audio Advisor,
Kentwood, MI
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BAE Systems, Fort
Walton Bch, FL
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LaptopsForLess,
Anaheim, CA
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Cornell Dubilier
Electronics New Bedford, MA
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Ventana Medical
Systems, Tucson, AZ
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GE
ION-TRACK Boston, MA Manufacturers and distributors of
ion checking security equipment for bomb testing at airports
and other applications we were able to find more storage and
packing space at minimal cost. |
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Saft America,
Valvese, NC
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ENERGY and POWER |
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City of
Glendale Water & Power, Glendale CA, Combined Warehouse for
Water, Electric, and Power generating facility for the City
of Glendale. This facility had to be fully operative 24 X 7
by emergency repair staff not qualified to operate
sophisticated fork trucks. |
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Husky Energy,
Prince George, BC
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New Brunswick Power,
Fredericton, New Brunswick
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EYEWEAR |
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Izone, Rockleigh, NJ is a
highly seasonal supplier of sunglass, and other travel items
sold in highway food plazas. Our layout increased pallet
storage space by over 200% compared to the original design
they had when they moved into a new building. |
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EYE-MAGINE
Chicago, IL |
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Select-A-Vision, Collegeville, PA
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FURNITURE & FURNISHINGS |
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Alchemy Collections, Bellevue, WA
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Office Furniture Now, Austin, TX
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Southern Lifestyles Fine Furniture, The Villages, FL
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GOVERNMENTAL and MILITARY |
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US Senate,
Washington DC, Sergeant at Arms office |
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Naval Coastal
Warfare Group 1, San Diego, CA , Combined Deployment Warehouse created from an
unused Helicopter Hanger |
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Denver
Metro Wastewater Reclamation Project, Denver CO, Single
warehouse for 15,000 plus replacement parts from a 5 county
regional facility |
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MEDIA |
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CHINA
SPROUT New York, NY |
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HARPER
COLLINS BOOKS Scranton, PA Designed and programmed a book
distribution center and book return processing center that
eliminated most labor in checking in remaindered books
returned to the warehouse for restocking. |
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WORD MUSIC
Memphis, TN Religious tape and CD music distribution center.
Re-designed and re-layed out this new facility, reducing
planned labor cost for pick and replenishment by over 40%. |
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Lehigh Direct,
Broadview, IL
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Memorex Products,
Inc., Winchester VA
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NON-PROFITS & COLLEGES |
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Habitat for
Humanity, Americus GA, redesign and improve and existing
warehouse for this world renown charitable service. |
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University
of Missouri, Columbus, MO, New combined Warehouse facility
bringing together text book processing, Internet sales and
Central stores into an existing older building. |
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Coral Ridge
Ministries, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
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National Relief
Charities, Beaverton, OR
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OFFICE PRODUCTS and SUPPLIES |
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MILLER SQA
Assembled to order office furniture. Devised a new slotting
technique to greatly improve picking speed and quality of
the stacked loads. |
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IMATION
(formerly part of 3M) 4 warehouse locations Improved
building cube utilization by 20%. Implemented an Activity
Based Costing (ABC) program to assign real handling costs to
the items requiring the excessive handling labor. |
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HP Printer
Supplies Relayed out 1.1 million sq. ft. ink and laser
cartridge replenishment warehouse and increased capacity by
22% freeing room for thousands of additional pallets. |
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Printer Essentials,
Memphis, TN
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MONK OFFICE
SUPPLY, Victoria, B.C. Canada A major office products
supplier in western Canada. We provided an entire layout and
operation design, allowing at least one, if not two more
years of operation - in a building they had "out-grown."! We
were able to more than double the number of pick slots into
a 25% smaller pick area while doubling the number of pallet
reserve slots. |
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123Inkjets.Com, Simi
Valley, CA
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SPORTING GOODS |
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LONGSTRETH
Parker Ford, PA |
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MOUNTAIN
GEAR Spokane, WA |
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NIKE
Atlanta, GA This major sporting goods provider faced
significantly inefficient and costly
warehousing/distribution practices. Following our intensive
analysis of data, the company was able to completely
eliminate the 3rd shift! They were (literally!) sleeping on
the job. Additionally, we greatly improved picking speeds
with batch picking and a creative re-layout for an 85%
smaller picking area. This improved picking rates by more
than 300%! |
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Clean Run,
Chicopee, MA
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Club Swim, Inc,
Pleasanton, CA
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Scuba.com, Irvine, CA
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3RD PARTY
LOGISTICS |
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Alpha Distribution
Solutions Schuylkill Haven, PA Third party fulfillment
provider in north east PA. Has one of the best high volume
order picking systems we have ever seen and which is fully
capable of picking at 300 lines per hour with virtually no
errors. Highly recommended!
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DISTRIBUTION SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL Traverse City, MI |
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MENLO
LOGISTICS San Mateo , CA A leading third party logistics company - Designed
numerous small order picking systems, performed warehouse
re-layouts and carried out many productivity reviews on
their nationwide fulfillment operations . |
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NFI
INTERACTIVE, 3rd party Internet order fulfillment company
Performed extensive design and re-layout of three of their
high labor intensity distribution centers including two
major dot com operations |
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METAL PRODUCTS |
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ALL-CLAD
METALCRAFTERS. Canonsburg, PA Manufacturer of very
high-quality cookware., featured in Macy's, Chef's etc.
Provided layout and system designs for storage, picking and
packing areas in a new, very narrow aisle (VNA) warehouse.,
accomplishing their major goal to replace 15 picking/packing
"fiefdoms" with 3 in-line packing stations. |
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DAHL BROTHERS
Mississauga, Canada Large manufacturer of "mini-ball
valves" needed more warehouse space and a bigger picking
area. We were able to achieve both goals at a much less than
expected equipment cost and without an expensive building
addition. |
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INTERROLL
Germany European material handling equipment mfg. - Designed
and programmed the Picktron lighted picking system which was
sold by Interroll throughout Europe. |
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Lloyd Industries,
Spokane, WA
Major manufacturer and distributor of custom and standard
designed Pizza Pans to most the major chains and small
operators |
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Kennametal
Evans, GA & Seneca, SC
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Kawneer Co. Inc.,
Visalia, CA
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Chamberlain Group,
Carlstadt, NJ
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Bergquist INC, Toledo,
OH
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Perfection Corp.,
Madison, OH
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Getman Corp., Bangor,
MI
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Magnus Industries
Inc., Santa Fe Springs, CA
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OTHER PRODUCTS |
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AFLAC,
Insurance Company. Slotted and redesigned all pick and
reserve slots for documentation forms, advertising, and
other paper supplies, for a new warehousing and distribution
center. |
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FARM &
COUNTRY - Designed a conveyorized cross docking system so
that High volume would move directly from receipt to store
delivery pallets without order picking and with almost zero
handling labor. |
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CAMETA CAMERA
Amityville, NY Internet and catalog seller of cameras and
accessories to photo enthusiasts need help laying out
a new, much larger warehouse. |
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CA Reed &
Paper Art Williamsport, PA- party goods mfg. - Designed and
programmed a Warehouse Management System to insure 100%
accurate inventory in three buildings. |
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DEGUSSA
INITIATORS Elyria OH Manufacturer of explosive
chemicals needed help on creating more storage space in
their limited warehousing areas. |
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DANGEROUS
GOODS SUPPLY Cranbury, NJ A small internet and catalog
supplier of safety packaging suppliers and containers needed
help utilizing limited space and reducing pick labor |
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SPINAL TECH
Gig Harbor, WA A major distributor of specialized products
of their own design to chiropractors. They needed a
re-layout and distribution system improve- ment due to their
rapid rate of growth. |
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Beehive Jewelry, Ruston, LA
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WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTOR |
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ALLEN-BRADLEY Picking showcase warehouse - Sophisticated
multi-station Pick to Light small item pick area including
"cluster picking" of up to 8 small orders into a single
compartmentalized tote. |
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FRANKE.La Vergne,
TN
Major supplier to restaurants and fast food operations
nationwide. We reviewed their in-house improvement plans,
found (and fixed) a major flaw in their design that might
have brought their operation to a major breakdown and
eventual demise |
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PORTER-WALKER Columbia, TN Distributor of power tools and
all kinds of hardware to retail stores and building trades
in the Tennessee area. |
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Lentz Milling Co., Reading, PA
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Esco Toy Imports, San Antonio, TX
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Daycon Products, Upper Marlboro, MD
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Southeastern Emergency Equip., Wake Forest, NC
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