A household appliance manufacturer experiencing rapid growth needed a plan for a Facility Expansion and material handling and information system upgrade. The company manufactures household appliances which are shipped primarily to the stores of large national and regional general merchandise chains and to general merchandise chain warehouses. Install an automatic palletizer with an in-line automatic stretch wrapper.
Unit loads are to be stacked on slipsheets.
Convert from a two way entry pallet to a four way. Develop a bar coded computer directed putaway label system. Transport pallets from the palletizer to the putaway location using a tugger and a train of carts. Floor stack pallets of bulk quantities and install single racks for smaller quantities and for items which cannot be stacked. Install a forward picking line with flow racks and conveyors for small quantity picks.