Whether it's finding the best slot for your product in your warehouse or the next location of your warehouse, our consultants can be engaged in any stage of your Material Handling System development or management process. From engineering and design to installation and training, our consulting services can be engaged at any stage of your project.

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Material Handling Consulting
• Whether it's finding the best slot for your product in your warehouse or the next location of
your warehouse, our consultants can be engaged in any stage of your Material Handling
System development or management process.
• From engineering and design to installation and training, our consulting services can be
engaged at any stage of your project.

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• Facilities Master Plan- Supply chain engineering studies are used to build a customized road map
to improve operations based on the business objectives and goals of your facility. Data is collected
from current processes, adjustments are predicted based on new requirements and/or growth,
and recommendations to improve your distribution or manufacturing center are communicated.
The study results in an optimized facility design with a full analysis of the steps needed to
improve your facility operations.
– Project Planning
– System Design
– Supplier Sourcing
– Project Implementation
• Engineering Study- Consulting Studies provide a customized road map for improving operations
based on your business objectives and future goals. Data is gathered from your current operation,
changes are forecasted based on new requirements and/or growth, and recommendations are
provided to improve your distribution or manufacturing center. The result is an optimized facility
design and a full analysis of the steps needed to improve your operation. We utilize a proven 5
phase process ensuring we help you meet world class standards in overall operations.
– Define
– Measure
– Analyze
– Design
– Validate

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• Engineering Survey- The goal of the Engineering Survey is to determine what opportunities are
feasible and to decide if further study is justified, for benchmarking your operation. Our
consultants will conduct a review of your operation and offer material handling system concepts
for consideration. We can then determine what technologies and processes make sense for further
examination. Engineering Survey process:
– Initial Meeting
– Conducting the Survey
– Design Concepts
– Validation
– Refine Concepts and Prepare Report
– Final Presentation
• Layout & Warehouse Design- Engaging us allow you to consider your facility layout from the
perspective of your product, process flows, material handling techniques, man-machine interfaces,
and plant structures. Profiling the current movement of product and projecting material flow help
you design the best building and material handling system to accomplish your company's goals.
Whether the layout is for an existing or a new "greenfield" facility, our goal is to plan around the
function and the process. Our design approach has consistently provided our customers with
initial capital cost savings and lower operating cost over time.
• Conveyor System Design- As an independent conveyor system integrator we are free to specify
and select the best of breed ancillary conveyor equipment regardless of the manufacturer. If there
isn't a piece of standard equipment available to meet your application, we will create a custom
design and manufacture it for you. Our conveyor system design covers all aspects of your
applications from complete system designs within your facility down to the detailed component
level design found in custom applications.

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• Slotting Analysis-Depending on the picking methodology, warehouse employees can spend
upwards of 60% of their time walking to and from picking mediums, which can cause tremendous
increases in cycle times and cost. Slotting your warehouse ensures SKUs are in the best picking
locations by determining size and velocity of SKUs, balancing the labor within picking zones, and
placing SKUs in more ergonomic locations. If your operation requires excessive amounts of labor,
your SKU mix has recently changed, or picking cycle times are too high, let our consultants
perform a slotting analysis. A slotting analysis will tell you which of your products move faster and
where to store inventory in your facility to minimize time out the door to your customer.
• Simulation- Computer simulation analysis helps visualize changes in layout and process as well as
answer what-if questions before implementing automation technology, information management
systems or procedural changes. Computer simulation models can be used to help evaluate
potential new automation investments or even changes to current operations. Results of a
computer simulation can help determine throughput rates, the number of employees needed to
pick orders, design problems and system bottlenecks.

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• Supply Chain Network Design- Companies face the challenge of achieving an efficient supply chain
that is flexible enough to respond to constantly changing market needs. The implications of supply
chain decisions can mean the difference between spending or saving millions of dollars.
Companies change over time and that can drastically affect their volume and shipping patterns,
but these changes often are not reflected in the supply chain network, which can remain static
over years and even decades. A physical supply chain network that is no longer optimized for
current requirements can raise total supply chain cost- for transportation, warehousing and
inventory. We use state-of-the-art optimization software and a proven methodology that delivers
the lowest cost supply chain network, while meeting all your service level requirements. Our
analyses examine facility location, facility size, inventory levels, and inbound and outbound
transportation.
• Warehouse Management System (WMS) Selection- Our consultants assist with finding the perfect
WMS (Warehouse Management System) solution for your operations using objective observation
and proven procedure. We follow a standard process that defines expectations by researching
goals, processes, KPI's, any existing WMS or ERP functionality, restrictions and other points of
interest that might help our experts define the best solution.
• Labor Measurement- Increase productivity by creating labor standards in your facility. We use
Maynard Operation Sequence Technique (MOST) for determining labor standards.