If you have too many people on the clock at once, you’ll find that you’re not only needlessly spending extra on payroll, but you could also lose money due to a decrease in the quality of your output.
How much work can your operations accomplish? You should know the throughput capabilities of your facility at each moment in time.
As businesses are struggling with production challenges and need to do more with less, SIMOS Solutions can help you increase productivity, lower costs, and improve worker retention. With our solutions in place, you can focus on making the best product—we’ll take care of the people.
This Fortune 100 eCommerce DC opened their Elwood facility in 2007 as a co-managed operation with SIMOS as the sole 3PL operator. At the time, SIMOS was the only facility as a 3PL provider operating Gate to Gate in their eCommerce network.
A Fortune 1,000 upscale casual wear retailer had exceeded peak capacity in their automated direct-to-consumer distribution center. A new automated distribution center would not be ready for their next peak season. To avoid providing a negative customer experience, and maintain output quality and expected delivery dates, the client sought a vendor who would be able to provide training, staffing and quality output.
SIMOS implemented a fourth shift staffed with six SIMOS supervisors and 94 SIMOS employees across the facility. SIMOS developed departmental SOP’s for all work processes within the facility and incorporated them into our pre-training and continuous training programs. The SIMOS Engineering team worked with the customer’s management team to obtain visibility of freight available on the yard.