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Sedlak Client Osram
Sylvania Increases Efficiency
4/2006
(Logistics Today)
Osram Sylvania, bucking the bigger-is-better trend, finds smaller-sized
docks at the company's three strategically located DCs to be highly
efficient as is. Peter van Breda, director of warehousing and
distribution, says, "My direction to the three DCs is to keep the
docks flowing. When there's too much on the dock, something is not
working."
To help, Sedlak recommended installing proper, easy-to-see-and-use aisle
marking for staging product near shipping doors. "Now etched metallic
plates can be installed in shallow holes bored into the floor so that they
are flush. They have bar codes and even when people drag pallets over
them, they hold up very well. It supports the practice that says 'Whenever
I move a pallet, I scan the pallet and know where and what it is,'"
says Lou Cerny, Sedlak vice president.
Ask Lou
about other creative ways to improve flow.
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