Sole Technology Speeds up Customer Shipments
At Sole Technology, action sports footwear and apparel are now flying out of the distribution center (DC) into retail stores. Faster and larger shipments are arriving at outlets, eliminating the retailers' previous hassle of sorting through smaller, incremental shipments. The shift to faster order fulfillment is a result of recent improvements in Sole Technology's global distribution operations. The action sports footwear and apparel company's newly consolidated DC and advanced equipment are showing a return on the company's investment in Tompkins Associates.
"Tompkins gave us a nudge toward one of our goals for becoming carbon neutral by 2020," says Roger Lamb, Sole Technology's director of distribution. "Since our new pick module and conveyor routes empty corrugated boxes to their own baler, we have a more simplistic, realistic opportunity for recycling."
With a new mezzanine and high-tech, three-level pick module designed and implemented by Tompkins Associates (Tompkins), Sole Technology is utilizing vertical space. And this "vertical change" doubles the company's capacity while increasing processing volume and lowering labor costs.
In less than a year, Sole Technology and Tompkins also designed and implemented a brand new 315,000 square-foot DC that allowed the action sports footwear and apparel company to outgrow and move out of their three-facility structure. The new facility also provided the company with the opportunity to redesign its picking processes and upgrade the warehouse management system.
"Tompkins gave us a nudge toward one of our goals for becoming carbon neutral by 2020," says Roger Lamb, Sole Technology's director of distribution. "Since our new pick module and conveyor routes empty corrugated boxes to their own baler, we have a more simplistic, realistic opportunity for recycling."
With a new mezzanine and high-tech, three-level pick module designed and implemented by Tompkins Associates (Tompkins), Sole Technology is utilizing vertical space. And this "vertical change" doubles the company's capacity while increasing processing volume and lowering labor costs.
In less than a year, Sole Technology and Tompkins also designed and implemented a brand new 315,000 square-foot DC that allowed the action sports footwear and apparel company to outgrow and move out of their three-facility structure. The new facility also provided the company with the opportunity to redesign its picking processes and upgrade the warehouse management system.