Garr Consulting Group has achieved successful results for clients in Supply Chain Consulting for over 40 years. We offer the following representative Case Studies for your review:

1. Developed the network strategy for a Major Retailer resulting in the design, implementation and start-up of their new Distribution Center.
   • Project Background
     • Brand name fashion and basic women’s apparel and accessories
     • Approximately 550 multi-concept specialty retail stores
     • Multi-channel distribution – specialty stores, wholesale, outlet stores, off price discounters and e-commerce
   • Project Implementation included:
     • Facility, Systems and MHE budget of approximately $25 million
     • New DC in empty facility shell – 450,000 sq. ft.
     • New WMS – PkMS
     • New allocation system in JDA
     • Replenishment of basic goods
   • Project Accomplishments:
     • Delivered on time and on budget
     • Innovative design methods – dynamic picking and replenishment, value added process area driven by WMS,
     • Combined retail store and e-commerce distribution in same DC
     • Improved vendor compliance
     • Automated product allocation
     • Flow thru of pre-distributed goods
     • Break bulk of imported goods on the west coast
     • State tax incentives
       
       
2. Designed, implemented and started-up the Distribution Center for one of the fastest growing Women’s Apparel Direct Marketing and Retail Store Companies in the U.S.
   
   • Project Background
     • Brand name fashion and basic women’s apparel and accessories
     • Approximately 230 multi-concept specialty retail stores
     • Multi-channel distribution – direct to consumer, own specialty stores, outlet stores, and off price discounters
   • Project Implementation included:
     • Facility, Systems and MHE budget of approximately $35 million
     • New DC construction, built in middle of winter – 425,000 sq. ft.
     • New WMS – PkMS
     • New merchandising front end system – Commercialware
     • New Call Center
   • Project Accomplishments:
     • Delivered on time and on budget
     • Innovative design methods – Shared packing & return stations, automated bagger, multi-area delivery conveyer system, shipping sorter, flexibility to process retail stores and DTC goods with same MHE
     • Combined retail store and e-commerce distribution in same DC
     • Improved vendor compliance
     • State of the art call center
     • Fitness center
     • DC achieved full productivity in a few months
       
       
3. Assisted one of the Largest Multi-Brand Direct To Consumer Companies with the strategy on where to handle seven new additional brands and the retro-fitting of one of their highly automated Fulfillment Centers (FCs) and one of their more manual FCs to handle the additional brands.
   • Project Background
     • Brand name fashion and basic women’s apparel, accessories and specialty hard goods
     • Direct to consumer via ecommerce and catalogue
     • Multi-channel distribution – direct to consumer, outlet stores, and off price discounters
   • Project Implementation included:
     • Facility, Systems and MHE budget of approximately $10 million
     • Capable of handling a additional 7 brands in one FC
     • Retro-fitted of one of their highly automated Fulfillment Centers (FCs) and one of their more manual FCs – over 1 million sq. ft.
     • Installed and modified WMS – PkMS (installed in one FC in less than 3 months)
   • Project Accomplishments:
     • Delivered on time and under budget – saved over $2 million
     • Improved picking by more than 60%
     • Rationalized the number of SKUs by 50%
     • Modified design of cross belt sorter
     • Improved cross belt sorter capacity by 25% and utilization by 30%
     • Increased overall FC capacity by 40%
     • Redesigned antiquated conveyer layout
     • Modified product packaging to make receiving product more productive
     • Re-slotted entire FC
     • Trained corporate IEs