Success Story

 When the decision was made to move distribution into the plant the Distribution Supervisor and Production Planner sprang into action. But they did not act alone; this was as a team success story. In order to accomplish their goal, the team had to visit a similar distribution center within their own company, using that plant’s successful distribution center as a model. 

Back in their own plant they had to rearrange work areas to find ample floor space for distribution. They were able to accomplish this task by creating Quixx Smart Structures  flow racks (in photo) to  regroup  products into slow and fast moving categories and began eliminating excess inventories.  Within 3 months they had a fully operational distribution center. 

Since this implementation they have been able to move excessive inventories, shorten lead times and improve on-time deliveries, freeing the distribution planners to expedite hot orders and last minute order changes and can now give customers more aggressive lead times.