Draw upon W&H Systems 46 years of proven experience in warehouse consulting, to help create an efficient and lean distribution center that maximizes your profitability by reducing the bottom line operating cost.  

We help our clients understand which solutions (of many available alternatives) best meet their short and long-range goals to ensure maximum supply chain flexibility and scalability. 

Warehouse Consultant Services

Warehouse Operations Improvement

• Benchmark warehouse operations and costs
• Develop labor productivity audits
• Establish and maintain productivity standards
• Simulate warehouse operations

Distribution Center Design

• Design new facilities (including space calculations) or redesign existing operations
• Produce CAD facility designs for bouth physical layout improvements and new facility designs
• Deliver improved layouts and operating plans for distribution centers
  • emphasizing materials flow, staffing & equipmen
• Specify material handling equipment, storage equipment and warehouse automation
• Perform analysis and recommend materials handling systems, operations, engineered work standards and management productivity control systems

Having one of the most powerful & experienced engineering staff's in the industry that specialize in facility design, supply chain process re-engineering, distribution systems and operational improvement.  Over the past 46 years, we have designed and implemented well over 250 material handling systems or re-configurations. 

A few examples:

Empire Merchants, Inc. (NY) - This high volume fast growing wholesale liquor distributor was facing order fulfillment and maintenance problems with a 35 year old paper based picking system.  Empire selected W&H with it's many years of experience in the wholesale wine & spirits industry, to design and build a wave based fully automated system.   The system design and implemented allow them to continue their growth and dominate their market.

Perry Ellis International (FL) - This manufacturer of apparel gave W&H Systems the task of optimizing its distribution operations.  Faced with the increasing demand by its customers of 100% accuracy, more timely fulfillment and VAS (Value Added Services), Perry Ellis and W&H agreed on a system that accomplishes these goals and provided a substantial ROI.

Port Logistics Group (NJ) - This Third Party Logistics (3PL) provider was negotiating a contract to takeover a major department stores import container processing.  W&H was hired to analyze the department stores projected volumes and growth, then design a fully automated material handling system for their existing Newark, NJ distribution center.  After demonstrating that this system would give PLG the capacity to handle the department stores business, they were awarded the contract.  W&H then installed the system in just 5 months and on budget.

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To learn more see our Design Build Qualifications presentation.