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Managers of spatially challenged DCs may not realize it. But a technology often marketed as a means of boosting picking productivity can also solve their space woes.
Filling orders from an inventory of 69,000 parts sounds anything but simple. Yet the folks at Future Electronics' new DC insist their workers could do it with their eyes closed.
The prophets of lean turned the manufacturing world on its ear. Now they want to do the same for distribution—with just a roll of masking tape and a stopwatch.
In a lean distribution operation, the men and women working in the warehouse seek out the waste in everything they do, eliminate it, and then do it again.
Move over, Han Solo. Retailer Too Inc. has also made the jump to lightspeed. Its blazing fast new put-to-light fulfillment system has sent DC operations into hyperdrive.