Case Studies
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Home furnishing giant IKEA’s vision is to create a better ever-day life for as many people as they possibly can based on offering a wide range of well designed, functional home furnishing products at prices so low that as many people as possible will be able to afford them. In their quest, IKEA turned to Wynright to help them reduce turnaround to stores from 72 hours to 24 hours while taking nearly 700 miles out of the process. more... PDF or HTML |
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Quill, a leading mail order distributor of office supplies, has consistently turned to Automotion. Training is important to Quill. Having the same equipment in each of its ten locations has made it easier for new Quill staff to learn from other employees what they need to know about operating and maintaining the conveyor system. more... |
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Textbooks require the same exactness as popular titles, except that they tend to be heavier than the typical best-selling novel. Remember lugging around an armload of schoolbooks? Just imagine handling over 100,000 such books everyday. That is the task of McGraw-Hill's new distribution center in Ashland, Ohio. This facility is designed to process orders with textbook precision. more... PDF or HTML |
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"Our newest Distribution Center in Fairfield, California was added to provide better service to our growing number of retail outlets as well as satisfy direct fulfillment shipments generated from our website potsandpans.com," stated Mike Rummelhoff, Director of Distribution Logistics, at Meyer Corp. more... |
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Crate&Barrel chose a path less followed, and as it turned out for them, much smarter. This house wares retailer now performs both its store and direct-to-consumer distribution from one new distribution center, but maintains separate processes for each. Efficiencies are gained as retail and direct fulfillment functions now share a common inventory, as well as use the same receiving, storage, sortation, and shipping areas. Transportation costs have also been reduced, throughput is up, customers are better served, and there is more room for growth. more... PDF or HTML |
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Dart's new distribution center was built to hand diverse products efficiently while maintaining high fulfillment accuracy. The company prides itself on quality order processing, topped off by a superb packaging system. The facility also features cross docking capability, a highly flexible pick module design, and plenty of room to grow. more... PDF or HTML |
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As one of the three largest distributors of medical/surgical and health care products in the country, General Medical distributes over 110,000 different items to hospitals, physician offices, clinics, nursing homes, home health care agencies, and home infusion therapy companies. This diverse market places requires merchandise in lots ranging from pallet loads down to single units. As a result, the automatic conveying system has to allow for the wide variety of merchandise being handled and the wide range of order sizes. more... |
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Several years ago, Magid Glove Safety Co. was at a crossroads. Business was growing beyond the space available in the two adjoining buildings that housed its manufacturing and warehouse operations in northwest Chicago. There was also a need to reduce costs and improve overall operations to remain competitive. The company's dilemma was whether to build new or somehow figure out how to create the needed efficiencies within the aging facility. Building new would have been very costly, requiring the family to take on considerable debt. Instead the family moved the manufacturing operations to a 130,000 square foot building about a mile away while turning the existing building into a top-notch distribution center. more... PDF or HTML |
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Pacific Sunwear is a retailer that caters to teens. The company's three chains, Pac Sun, Pac Sun Outlet, and d.e.m.o. comprise over 750 mall-based stores that sell clothing, accessories and footwear. And as we all know, what a teen wants today is not necessarily what they want tomorrow or the next day. Keeping up with those shifts put a strain on Pacific Sunwear's manual 130,000 square foot distribution center. So the company opened a new 365,000 square foot facility in Anaheim, Calif. that has easily surpassed the old on in volume, accuracy and speed. more... PDF or HTML |
