Does your facility need a retrofit?

November 24th, 2009

The following questions are intended to help diagnose your need for a retrofit.

1) Is your distribution operation running close to capacity?

2) Is your ability to efficiently handle inventory increasingly compromised?

3) Are you able to handle new items as they are introduced?

4) Are your costs for forklift operators and other direct warehouse labor going up?

5) Is the length of order cycles and/or turn-around times increasing?

6) Are your dock doors overly congested?

7) Does product damage seem to be on the rise?

8) Do you have a proliferation of small orders?

9) Are there trouble spots in warehouse flow?

10) Are pick lines lengthening or becoming more convoluted over time?

If you answer yes to one or more of the above questions you may wish to review your key performance indicators to determine if they also point to the need for a retrofit.

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