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JA Sedlak
IT Systems
Sedlak specializes in IT systems installations
Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)
A Warehouse Management System, also known as a WMS, is an IT system responsible for managing inventory and fulfillment center operations from receiving through shipping. A WMS commonly includes order allocation and wave management.
Warehouse Execution Systems (WES)
A Warehouse Execution System, also called a WES, is an IT system responsible for managing and optimizing the flow of work through a fulfillment or distribution center. A WES includes balancing labor and equipment resources to achieve efficiencies throughout a facility.
Warehouse Control Systems (WCS)
A Warehouse Control System, also known as a WCS, is the system responsible for controlling material handling equipment, especially as it relates to PLC level functions, conveyor flow control and operations such as routing containers on the conveyor.
Labor Management Systems (LMS)
A Labor Management System, also called an LMS, is the system that captures, tracks and reports key operational data related to labor functions in near real-time to monitor progress against planned objectives. This includes all labor hours expended in the warehouse for tasks monitored.
Transportation Management Systems (TMS)
A Transportation Management System, also known as a TMS, is a logistics platform that uses information systems to help businesses plan, execute and optimize the physical movement of goods between facilities, both incoming and outgoing and to make sure shipments are compliant with transportation regulations.
Order Management Systems (OMS)
An Order Management System, also called an OMS, not only supports all stages of your company’s sales process, from order creation through customer delivery; it also makes quick work of logistics challenges inherent in an omnichannel world. A key benefit of an OMS is it provides a single, centralized system for managing orders from all sales channels: store, web, call center, mobile and kiosk.
Yard Management System (YMS)
A Yard Management System, also called a YMS, is a software solution designed to monitor the movement of trailers in the yards of facilities, distribution centers or warehouses, and to make the most efficient use of both inbound and outbound trailer docks.
Success Stories
DC Design for Pharmaceutical Network
Coming in under budget, we met one client’s standards for capital return on investment by creating a new distribution center operations model which was replicated network-wide. This enabled the client to handle large volumes, accept late-day customer orders for next morning delivery, and achieve higher overall throughput with fewer facilities, all while maintaining customer service levels.
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Warehouse Optimization for Orvis
We helped Orvis achieve faster pick / pack times, reducing cost-per-unit (CPU), shortened warehouse to customer delivery times, reduced dependency on labor year round and especially during Q4 peak season, and incentivized labor performance above engineered standards.
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Distribution Automation for Northern Tool
Sedlak provided project management from initial concept planning through start-up, assisted in planning and implementation of improved operational methods and practices, developed facility layout to improve flows and optimize use of space throughout current and expanded facility and facilitated conversion of warehouse transactions to the new Manhattan WMS.
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Consolidation Strategy for avantor
VWR International, now avantor, is a global laboratory supply and distribution company who reached out to us for assistance in developing an appropriate facility concept and material handling solutions design for combined operations in a new greenfield distribution center. Our design for the facility layout and operations plan maximized the effectiveness of the proposed material handling system and included a two-stage implementation plan that balanced investment with planned growth.
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LEED Certified Distribution for VF
Sedlak and VF have been trusted partners since 1960. We have completed 33 projects for them over the last sixty years.
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U.S. Antarctic Program/McMurdo Station
Our client, McMurdo Station, needed a plan for consolidating all warehousing of inventory and assets to eliminate aging infrastructure, address the challenges of extreme conditions and reduce staffing requirements on the continent of Antarctica. After analysis, we were able to identify opportunities to reduce warehouse space by 65%, reduce staff by 25% and improve the client’s upstream supply chain.
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ERP/WMS Solution for Optimal
Sedlak assisted in the requirements development, cost and benefit evaluation, vendor selection and implementation project management of a new ERP/WMS system for The Palm Tree Group, now Optimal. Our team managed the successful, on-time and on-budget implementation of Palm Tree Group’s entire information support systems, including full integration, volume, stress testing and user acceptance testing prior to readiness assessment and go-live.
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Process Flow Workshop for Regional Healthcare System
Our client, a regional healthcare system, needed a supply chain strategy to optimize their cash flow, reduce and manage their inventory, improve their point of use replenishment, optimize their FTE and clean up their MMIS. Our recommendations, after a lengthy assessment of their supply chain, could potentially save the company a $120K cash flow improvement and a savings of hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.
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Project Management – Pharmaceutical DCs
Coming in under budget, we met one client’s standards for capital return on investment by creating a new distribution center operations model which was replicated network-wide. This enabled the client to handle large volumes, accept late-day customer orders for next morning delivery and achieve higher overall throughput with fewer facilities, all while maintaining customer service levels.
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Facility Expansion for PEL Supply
Needing optimization of its distribution network, PEL Supply turned to Sedlak. We recommended operational enhancements focused on improved throughput, service and costs and provided a facility expansion plan providing optimal size, layout and equipment with specifications and bid packages for the building, material handling equipment and systems and documents outlining supporting IT systems and technologies.
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Automated DC for Marmot
For the client, Sedlak evaluated potential automation with integration into a new SAP WMS and designed future growth and potential acquisition of new brands, reducing the need for EWM host system modifications, lowering programming and engineering costs and allowing easy future upgrades, quicker implementation, and less complex security and training.
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Automated DCs for DSW
More than a Decade of Projects: New Automation & Systems, Brownfield Facilities, and Uninterrupted Operations
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In this episode of the Unboxing Fulfillment podcast, host Harry Drajpuch interviews David Teeple, Director of Client Services at Sedlak Supply Chain Consultants. Sedlak is a comprehensive supply chain and distribution logistics advisory firm that has been in business since 1958.
Sedlak maintains relationships with a number of key suppliers, which include integrators, third party logistics providers, and providers of material handling equipment and storage media, information technology, robotics, real estate, and construction. We work with these suppliers in order to keep our staff abreast of vendor capabilities, product offerings, industry news, and to obtain competitive […]
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All Things WES: Answers to Common Questions
One of the most confusing and misunderstood technologies, which has been a buzz word for several years now, is the Warehouse Execution System, or WES. In today’s world, E-commerce operations have continually increased in both percentage of many retailer’s businesses, and demands for reducing order cycle times (commonly referred to as the “click-to-ship” metric). IT systems that address these challenges and also optimize the flow of work through their fulfillment systems have become a critical need for the Retail industry.
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