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CONSOLIDATING WAREHOUSE
OPERATIONS

Less is more:

Consolidating Warehouse Operations into a
Centralized Location through Automation
By Gary Frank,

VP of Automated Systems, Westfalia Technologies, Inc.

After a period of economic downturn, many companies are beginning to recover and experience business growth again.
While some warehousing organizations believe the next logical step in growth is to expand and establish new sites, others
are realizing that less is actually more by consolidating and centralizing operations.
Typically, large corporations have a main on-site warehouse,
accompanied by multiple external locations. Managing
geographically dispersed satellite warehouses requires
labor-intensive efforts that compromise productivity,
especially when the organization is handling a high volume
of orders that require picking products stored in disparate
warehouses. This becomes a logistics nightmare, as workers
are trying to aggregate these scattered items in order to send
them to a single destination.

• Control: Automating processes within a centralized
location gives warehouse pers ۛ