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AmerisourceBergen's Big Bang: 6 DCs, 3 Years

1/2008

(Modern Materials Handling) AmeriSource Health and Bergen Brunswig merged in 2001, poised to become a pharmaceutical distribution powerhouse. All they needed was a new distribution network. Sedlak was there to design and implement systems into what would become the model for five more distribution centers.

So far this six-DC adventure has agreed with the company's business. Its divisional expenses as a percent of revenues have gone down 28% since it started this transformation, and they expect that figure to improve. Labor has been reduced 21% while revenues have increased 38%.

There will be further improvement as its smaller legacy DCs adopt the WMS and labor across the network gets onto the incentive program. At the end of this year 95% of the company's distribution center activities will be processed under this WMS.

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