Your Partner for Elevating Warehouse Logistics Performance
Warehouse Management & Design
Warehouse Management is a critical component to a supply chain. While the basic functions of warehouse management fundamentally remain the same, the complexity has substantially increased along with increased globalization, advanced manufacturing, and changes in consumer behavior & online shopping.
The basic functions of Warehouse Management include the inbound receiving of product, storing products, picking & fulfilling orders, and preparing orders for outbound shipping. The scope of service ranges depending on product type, customer needs and expectations, and the requirements of various stakeholders throughout the supply chain.
We help you do what you do, better!
Leveraging People, Process, & Technology
Warehouse Management has been Sunland’s core business since it was founded in 1982. Over the years Sunland has built upon a strong foundation of the fundamentals of warehouse management with advanced technologies and a culture of Continuous Improvement throughout the organization.
Our uniquely integrated combination of expertise in warehouse management + advanced technology + Continuous Improvement culture, provide our customers with:
Confidence
Performance results & transparency
Insight
Enhanced information visibility to make better decisions
Strategic Partnership
Engaged team of problem solvers & innovators
Warehouse Logistics Expertise Across Industries
Manufacturers, retailers, and other types of “shippers” choose to outsource warehouse management, so they can focus on what they are best at – making and/or selling products. This allows them to leverage the technology and expertise of a third party who is investing in and focused on continuously improving warehouse operations.
We help our customers by:
- Simplifying complexity
- Enhancing customer experience
- Reducing overhead costs
- Improving inventory management
- Providing flexible capacity to support scaling a business, seasonality or temporary projects
- Leveraging big data and integrated systems to provide better supply chain visibility and business insight
- Leveraging expertise in warehouse design, process leadership & advanced technologies to improve quality, efficiency, and performance
Warehouse Design
How a warehouse operation is designed significantly impacts performance and can be the difference between succeeding or failing to meet your customers’ expectations and budget goals.
Designing a warehouse operation successfully requires collaboration and starts with input from the customer. Initially, a Sunland Solutions Engineer balances input factors such as forecasted volume, SKU profiles, additional value-added services, and customer requirements to determine optimal material flow, storage methods, material handling equipment, staffing, and systems solutions.
Discovery Phase
Goal: To learn about your business & collect scope information for design input
Categories of information to determine scope include:
- Product description
- Volume
- SKU profiles
- Location
- Customer requirements
Preliminary Design Phase
Goal: To create an optimal warehouse operation design concept and pricing solution proposal based on provided scope parameters and customer requirements.
Outputs of the design include the following solutions:
- Material & information flow
- Storage methods
- Material handling equipment
- Staffing plan
- Systems
- Pricing
Let's work together!
If you need to improve supply chain performance and optimize warehouse logistics, let’s talk about how Sunland can help.
