WAREHOUSE AUDIT AND ASSESSMENT

Scope

Our Warehouse Audit and Assessment is tailored to the exact situation in your distribution center and could include, but is not limited to, the below:

  • An overall audit or assessment of your warehouse from layout to processes to productivity/efficiency to system support.

  • Benchmarking warehouse/fulfillment processes to Establish's "Best Practices".

  • Determining opportunities for cost reduction inside the four walls.

  • Evaluating warehouse slotting strategy.

  • Determining and/or evaluating warehouse KPIs or metrics.

  • Auditing and/or benchmarking warehouse or 3PL costs.

  • Evaluating process cycle times.

  • Value stream mapping or process mapping the existing warehouse processes.

Objectives

Audit and assess the existing warehouse/distribution operation and create an action plan for how to imprrove and/or reach best-in-class.

Deliverables

Every project is different, but the main typical deliverables could be:

1. Best Practices Audit

An audit of your current processes and system support vs. our Logistics Best Practices.

2. Layout Audit

An audit of your current layout configuration to determine if the layout and equipment fit your operational profile.

3. Savings Opportunities

Opportunities for cost reductions in the operation.

4. Quantitative Report

A quantitative report detailing your operational profile, productivities and operational baseline.

5. Benchmark

A benchmark of your current costs and productivities compared to firms with the same characteristics.

6. Action Plan for an Improved Operation

A hands-on action plan based on solid analysis that will improve your operation.

Methodology

The Establish Way™

  • We are unbiased - we do not sell any products or software; all you get is our advisory services on what is best for your individual business.

  • A unique and proprietary methodology and structure for logistics best practices developed together with General Electrics and successfully proved valuable in many companies.

  • Logistics best practices constantly updated and extended with information from a vast number of companies on a global basis.

  • Establish’s warehouse consultants have the experience and knowledge to evaluate your operations in a way that gives you insights and a hands-on way to improve.

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Why establish?

TOOLS & METHODS

Within warehousing, we are using state of the art tools and methods. Below you will find some of the more important tools.

Logivations

Optimity

AutoCAD

Establish Supply Chain Best Practices™

CASE STUDIES

Establish has a long track-record within warehouse design and improvements. The case studies below are just a few examples of achievements from Establish's supply chain consultants together with clients within warehouse design and improvements.

 

Facility Design – Automotive Spare Parts

An automotive manufacturer needed a new facility for warranty spare parts. The project encompassed developing and evaluating three strategically different solutions, sizing and designing the layout all the way through to the implementation and start-up on time and budget.

Warehouse Redesign and Improvements for a Leading Building and Construction Material Distributor

Establish assisted a leading building and construction material distributor by redesigning their over-capacity warehouse, improving internal processes and quantifying the return on investment.

Third party logistics (3PL): Search and Selection

Establish helped a multinational animal healthcare provider consolidate its distribution operations with the search and selection of the ideal 3PL.