WAREHOUSE DESIGN CONSULTING
Optimize your warehouse to cut labor, increase throughput and reclaim space.
Our warehouse design consultants optimize layout, equipment, processes, labor and systems to deliver a flexible, future-ready facility and measurable ROI.
Adapt to business change with an optimized warehouse design.
Warehouse design involves more than just equipment layout. The combination of a proven design with the right equipment, processes, personnel and technology ensures a successful and adaptable facility capable of handling change. enVista synchronizes the physical and material flows of a distribution center with the critical data flows to create the optimal facility.
Benefits of Warehouse Design Optimization
- Free up warehouse space –Free up more usable space before you invest in a new building or expansion.
- Reduce labor costs – Reduce travel, touches and congestion so your team can pick, pack and ship more with the same headcount.
- Improve inventory management – Improve inventory accuracy and visibility, with optimized storage and slotting strategies.
- Improve flow through the warehouse – Simplify product flow from receiving to shipping to increase throughput and shorten order cycle times.
Drive Warehouse Design Optimization with enVista
Future State Design Requirements
We develop comprehensive future state design requirements to ensure your distribution center can accommodate your organization’s strategic business directives. This includes detailed planning for future growth, technology integration and process improvements to maintain operational efficiency and flexibility.
MHE Concept and Sensitivity Analysis
We evaluate the operational and financial impacts of various MHE alternatives. We use sensitivity analysis to provide confidence in decision-making, ensuring that your investment in equipment aligns with your operational goals and budget constraints.
Lean Process Design
We eliminate waste and cost through our comprehensive future state lean process design. Our approach focuses on streamlining workflows, improving process efficiency and enhancing overall productivity. This results in a more agile and responsive warehouse operation.
DC Design Layout
We ensure a tightly integrated solution and optimized material flow and space utilization. We leverage our extensive experience and engineering skills to develop layouts that support efficient operations and scalability.
Systems Impacts
Leverage enVista’s breadth and depth of experience to ensure that all aspects of your warehouse systems are aligned with future state process requirements. Our team conducts thorough evaluations to guarantee that your systems can support the optimized processes and handle increased operational demands.
Proven experience. Maximum results.
Warehouse Design Optimization on a Highly Automated Distribution Network for Caleres
- Brought wholesale distribution operations in house with a highly automated distribution network, designed and implemented by enVista
- Designed to handle 10,000 cartons per hour—or an estimated 200,000 pairs of shoes a day—with space to store 5 million pairs at any given time
- Capable of shipping a total of 80 million pairs of shoes a year
Featured Insights
White Paper
Optimum Facility Design
Learn the right ways to proceed with a facility design, common mistakes to avoid and the key data profiles to collect prior to design.
Blog
The Strategic Trio: How Supply Network, Supply Chain Planning and Inventory Strategy Work Together
Discover how aligning supply network design, supply chain planning and inventory strategy can drive competitive advantage. Learn why these interconnected levers must work together to boost service levels and improve supply chain resilience.
Data Sheet
Strategic Facility Design
At enVista, we synchronize the physical and material flows of a distribution center with data to create an optimized facility.
Blog
Designing the Warehouse of the Future – A Blueprint for Supply Chain Resilience
Design a future-ready warehouse that withstands disruption. Learn how enVista helps build resilient, flexible facilities with strategic design and automation.
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