WAREHOUSE DESIGN & LAYOUT
Scope
Establish’s Warehouse Design and Layout service creates warehouse designs that maximize capacity and achieve the desired service levels while reducing operating costs. We create a design that includes not only the detailed physical layout but also an operations manual with the best processes to ensure the best possible utilization. Each optimized distribution center/warehouse design and layout that we produce is customized to your specific needs. Our expert warehouse consultants have designed and implemented warehouses/distribution centers for many hundreds of clients in virtually every industry. We can help you optimize your current operation or create an efficient new warehouse/distribution center design. The state-of-the-art warehouse automation will always be evaluated.
Objectives
Maximize Capacity
Improve Productivity
Minimize Capital Investment (Unless Specified)
Reduce Operating Costs
Evaluate Warehouse Automation
Optimize Product Flows
Deliverables
Every project is different, but the six main typical deliverables are:
1. Data Profiling
Identifying flows & structures for the bespoke design of processes and layouts
2. Best Practices
An audit of current processes vs. our Supply Chain Best Practices.
3. Layout Concepts
Evaluation of 2-4 different conceptual layouts and solutions.
4. Detailed Layout
A detailed layout for the chosen conceptual design.
5. Practical Plan
A hands-on implementation plan in Gantt chart format.
6. Operating Guide
Documentation of the processes and workflows of the operation.
Methodology
The Establish Way™
Why establish?
Experience
During our 50-year history, our expert supply chain consultants have completed more than 2,300 client assignments. Our highly skilled warehousing consultants have designed and implemented warehouses/distribution centers for virtually every industry with the degree of automation that exactly matches the clients’ requirements — ensuring the optimized deliverables with the appropriate ROIs.
Independent and Unbiased
Establish’s warehouse and supply chain consultants are unaligned and independent of any material handling and storage supplier or integrator. As such, our unbiased staff will create a warehouse design that is fully customized and ideally conceived for your specific needs.
A Full-Package Solution
Establish’s warehouse design solution contains the detailed CAD based layout, a comprehensive listing of equipment and materials to be purchased – detailed to the level necessary for RFPs – and an operating manual outlining and diagramming the processes and procedures to ensure maximum operating efficiency of the new layout.
TOOLS & METHODS
Within warehousing, we are using state of the art tools and methods. Below you will find some of the more important tools.
Assign Data Profiler
Logivations Warehouse Simulation
Relex
AutoCAD
Establish Supply Chain Best Practices™
CASE STUDIES
Establish has a long track-record within warehouse design and improvements. The case studies below are just a few examples of achievements from Establish's supply chain consultants together with clients within warehouse design and improvements.
A Greenfield Layout Design for a New Distribution Center
A rapidly growing company acquired a brand new distribution center for raw material and finished goods. Establish developed the layout to include bulk storage, racking, and shelving areas with room for future growth.
Warehouse Design for Automotive Spare Parts
An automotive manufacturer needed a new facility for warranty spare parts. The project encompassed developing and evaluating three strategically different solutions, sizing and designing the layout all the way through to the implementation and start-up on time and budget.
Warehouse Redesign And Improvements For A Leading Tile Distributor
Establish assisted a leading tile and stone distributor by redesigning their over-capacity warehouse, improving internal processes and quantifying the return on investment.
Warehouse Redesign and Improvements for a Leading Building and Construction Material Distributor
Establish assisted a leading building and construction material distributor by redesigning their over-capacity warehouse, improving internal processes and quantifying the return on investment.
Warehouse Automation in the Automotive Industry
Establish designed a new operation to improve efficiency and storage capacity for a recently acquired company with high growth expectations.
Optimizing the Layout and Processes of a Storeroom
A manufacturing company’s storeroom had lost significant space and became extremely inefficient at supporting production. Establish developed ways to improve storage capacity and efficiency so the storeroom could gain control back over their products and processes.