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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:
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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.
- Background
- Brand name fashion and basic women’s apparel, accessories and specialty hard goods
- Multiple facilities
- Multi-channel distribution – direct to consumer, outlet stores and off price discounters
- Project included:
- Facilities assessment
- Facilities and MHE re-engineering
- GAP analysis
- Capability of handling additional 7 brands in one FC
- Retro-fitted 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
- Project management
- Project Accomplishments:
- Delivered on time and under budget – saved over $2 million
- Implemented new picking processes
- Improved picking by more than 60%
- Rationalized the number of SKUs by 50%
- Improved sorter capacity by 25% and utilization by 30%
- Increased overall FC capacity by 40%
- Modified product packaging to make receiving product more productive
- Re-slotted entire FC
- Assisted Major Office Supply Products Company in the re-engineering and WMS implementation of multiple facilities.
- Background
- Major office supply products
- Multiple facilities
- Multi-channel distribution – retail, B2B and e-commerce
- Project included:
- Facility re-engineering
- Development of new processes
- MHE assessment
- MHE design and implementation
- WMS (PkMS) implementation in multiple facilities
- KIVA system analysis
- Project Accomplishments:
- Implemented new processes
- Reduced pick/pack costs 30+%.
- Increased capacity of facility with new multi-level pick/pack operation
- Implementation of PkMS in multiple facilities
- KIVA system implementation evaluation
- Assisted one of the Largest Home Décor and Garden Products Wholesale Companies In:
- Background
- Home Décor and Garden Products
- Multiple facilities
- Multi-channel distribution – wholesale, direct to consumer and drop ship to retail customer
- Project included:
- Operational and MHE assessment
- Re-engineering of multiple facilities
- MHE design and implementation
- Developed and implemented new operational processes
- Re-slotting plan
- Gap analysis
- Project management
- Project Accomplishments:
- Increased storage capacity of facilities 200+%
- Increased productivity 300+%
- Reduced picking costs 70%
- Re-slotted new picking facility
- GAP analysis of current WMS
- Project management of MHE implementation
- 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.
- 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 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
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