As business changes, your distribution center faces challenges. Space is expensive, and managing storage, labor and equipment is even more expensive. Utilizing dcIQ will save space and money in your distribution center. We can reduce the total cost required to meet your customers' requirements. Our assessment process employs dynamic simulation to find productivity improvements, opens up space within the four walls and evaluates the efficiency of your material handling equipment.

The dcIQ travel assessment targets the largest cost driver in a distribution center: travel distance. Our travel calculator can simulate all configurations of aisles and cross-aisles, including the optimal travel distance possible given your facility's dimensions and material flows.

Timeline - 1 Week

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  Calculate travel times for picking , putaway, etc. based on the current layout.
• Optimize the number of aisles and cross aisles storage blocks to obtain the best travel times.
  
• Simulate the impact of different inventory slotting strategies on travel distance.
  
• Create 2-D layout options images to visualize current facility design vs. future design

The dcIQ warehouse assessment evaluates the impact of changes to your current operation. Results are published in action plan with financial justifications for recommended changes.

Timeline - 3 Weeks

• Simulate slotting policy to reduce labor cost
• Increase storage capacity by evaluating total facility cube
• Reduce material handling equipment investment
• Compare combinations of travel aisles and storage areas for minimum distance
• Improve capacity and utilization

The dcIQ warehouse design creates optimized operating scenarios with an emphasis on speed to value. Data input is intuitive and results provide scalable solutions.

Timeline - 12 Weeks

• Develop a "Design Strategy" for you (not a simple duplication of your competitors).
• Explore all combinations of picker-to-product and product-to-picker design strategies
• Apply combinatorial optimization to evaluate millions of design possibilities
• Calculate financial justification based on lowest cost per unit throughput