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Warehouse/Distribution Center Services

Establish can comprehensively review and develop modern warehouse/distribution center facilities and the associated business processes to provide maximum service to customers. Whether improving an existing facility or designing a new facility Establish applies our considerable design experience and proven "best-practices" to develop the optimal layout and flow within a short period of time.

Management of the warehouse environment is a crucial part of most companies' survival, recovery, and growth. The modern warehouse/distribution center is the central operation in most logistics networks. Whether connected to a plant or as a stand alone facility, cross-dock operation, single-line or multiple-line mixing facility, the warehouse must not only efficiently perform the classic storage and shipping functions, but often also handle final assembly, kitting, samples, returns, pricing, and other special value-added services.

Establish has extensive experience in helping companies keep up with the dramatic changes in warehouse/distribution center operations. Our team combines on-the-floor data gathering with sophisticated modeling techniques to produce and implement warehouse/distribution center operation plans that provide increased savings and reliability for tomorrow while keeping the inventory moving today.

Within Warehouse/Distribution Center Services, we specialize in the following:

Warehouse/Distribution Center Operations Improvement
  • Benchmark warehouse operations and costs.
  • Develop labor productivity audits.
  • Establish and maintain productivity standards.
  • Simulate warehouse operations.
    • Warehouse/Distribution Center Design and Layout
  • Deliver improved layouts and operating plans for distribution centers; emphasizing materials flow, staffing and equipment.
  • Specify material handling and storage equipment, and warehouse automation.
  • Perform analysis and recommend materials handling systems, operations, engineered work standards, and management productivity control systems.
  • Design new facilities or redesign existing operations.
  • Produce CAD facility designs:
    Physical layout improvements
    New facility design
    Examples of new and redesigned operations:
    Layout 1
    Layout 2
    • 3PL Selection and Implementation
  • Evaluate the need for outsourcing.
  • Evaluate the cost and service performance levels of existing 3PL providers.
  • Identify, evaluate and recommend potential 3PL providers.
  • Plan and lead the transition from company operated or 3PL operated warehouses to new 3PL operations.
    • The modern warehouse/distribution center, whether company operated or 3PL operated is the key operation in most logistics networks.

    For more information on how Establish can help your company review and develop modern warehouse/distribution center facilities and processes that enable maximum service to your customers send us an email or call us.



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