Warehouse Engineering Design Services

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Warehouse Engineering helps customers develop cost effective and efficient material handling systems. With more that 18 years in business, our team of seasoned professionals uses a tested methodology to analyze, plan and implement distribution system solutions taylored to individual customer requirements and objectives.

The Warehouse Engineering methodology consists of four primary steps for most businesses:

• Operations Observations
• Data Analysis
• Conceptual Plans / Budgets
• Financial Justifications

Operations Observations
Warehouse engineering begins working with a customer by understanding the customer's unique business and operational environment. To achieve this, we take the time to learn about your business from historical, present and future perspectives. Key elements usually include:

• All material flows.
• All controls acting on these flows.
• Tasks performed by your people, as seen through their eyes.
• Management's tool to overview & monitor performance, workloads, inventory dynamics, errors, etc.

Data Analysis
Upon completion of the learning process, customers may expect a report which documents what we have learned:

• What the digest of data means.
• What the forecasts portend.
• A critique of operations.
• A clear set of design criteria to guide the next stage of our work.

After our client has assimilated this report:

Review and rework our data and analysis until the customer and Warehouse Engineering both share a mutual and agreed understanding of the customer's complete operational environment.

Conceptual Plans / Budgets
Once findings and observations are accepted by the customer, Warehouse Engineering can being to develop a solution to address the needs of the customer.

• Blend of solution ranges.
• Acid test for financial justification.
• Test against design criteria.
  • Develop description of operations.
  • Develop detailed layout drawings and illustrations
  • Develop specifications & budgets
  • Perform justification trials using client's guidelines

Financial Justification
The final element of our work is to complete and present our recommendations - complete with all agreed deliverables. Customers can expect a comprehensive report complete with data, analysis and a roadmap of implementation and integration of the designed solutions.