Warehouse

Warehouse operations are being faced with many new opposing pressures, driving the need for warehouse consulting. eCommerce has created an entirely new marketplace. Now, customers expectations are driving this new marketplace demanding new functionality and new capability from their warehouse management. They expect levels of mass customization that provide them with uniquely tailored products and services. The continued collaborative relationships between supply chain partners are pushing new capabilities to accurately fulfill a cross-enterprise platform. At the core of this bustle, material handling must undertake many challenges as they unite to meet these new requirements.

Material Handling Operations and distribution centers typically account for the largest segment of assets in material handling and the second largest segment of cost. We help clients with their warehouse layout and warehouse management, and implement their physical distribution infrastructure, including "inside the four walls" of facility operations, while helping them address changes in their environment. Factors such as inventory management, postponement, cross-docking, increased customer demands for accuracy, speed, value-added services and flexibility are causing traditional warehouses to evolve into integrated distribution centers.

TMG warehouse consulting uses process modeling to assess your distribution and warehouse requirements. We walk you through strategies to ensure the cost-effective coordination of moving your material in sufficient quantities from manufacturing to storage, and then from storage centers to on-time and as-needed delivery to customers.

We concentrate on 4 key components:

• Distribution Strategy - channel strategy performs customer driven market segmentation, quantifies cost to serve, optimizes go-to-market strategies, service requirements and associated distribution capabilities; network strategy rationalizes current distribution network.
• Warehouse Management Systems - focuses on execution capabilities of warehouse, enabling distribution capabilities and integrating with other supply chain partners and providing transaction backbone.
• Distribution Design - improves processes such as cross-docking, material handling and consolidated distribution, picking and dispatching.
• Performance Management - enhances human performance through and short term and continuous improvement efforts.