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Industrial
Trucks
Fashion
accessories retail DC
Use
of a combination of industrial trucks, very narrow aisle storage,
and different rack types provide high storage density and rapid
handling and ticketing/tagging of orders
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treamlined
handling is a priority at this DC for fashion accessories,
which frequently ships up to 1,000 orders per day to both
retail stores and catalog customers. The facility uses a combination
of counterbalance, turret, and reach trucks to facilitate
handling of inventory. Incoming goods arrive in pallet and
case quantities. Counterbalance trucks unload pallets from
trucks and deposit them at P&D (pickup and delivery) stations
located at the ends of aisles in the reserve storage area,
consisting of a combination of five-level-high, very narrow
aisle (VNA) single-deep and push-back rack. Turret trucks
select pallets and place them on the P&D stations. Reach trucks
take these replenishment picks to the forward picking area.
This pick-to-belt operation consists of flow rack and shelving
and a powered takeaway conveyor. Picked items travel by conveyor
to VAS stations for ticketing and tagging and pack stations
for gift wrapping, then onto a sortation conveyor for order
consolidation and shipping.
- U-shaped
flow of inventory and orders through the facility minimizes
travel distances, improves productivity, and minimizes traffic
congestion
- Use
of a combination of pallet and push-back rack in the reserve
storage area allows for increased storage density— push-back
rack is typically ideal for SKUs with more than six pallets
in inventory
- P&D
stations at the ends of aisles are raised racks, allowing
for a turret truck to quickly pick the pallet directly off
the rack and place it in a random storage location
- Aisles
in the reserve storage area are oriented perpendicular to
the receiving dock, minimizing the distance that the slower-moving
counterbalance trucks are required to travel through the
facility
- The
combination of five-level-high pallet rack, very narrow
aisles (6 ft), and wireguided turret trucks minimize use
of floor space for reserve storage
- Use
of gravity conveyors to feed VAS and packing workstations
is a cost-efficient strategy to provide accumulation
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FACILITIES
OVERVIEW
Product
Type: Fashion accessories,
including belts, watches, and wallets
Customer type: Catalog
and retail stores
Facility
Size: 225,000 square feet
Equipment Budget: $7.8M
Number of employees: 300
Number
of Shifts:
2
SKUs:
7,000
Activity
Level: High-volume
Value-added services performed:
Ticketing, theft tagging, gift wrapping
Volume of items receiving a value-added
service: 90%+
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