- Process Flow: Traditional warehouses move full pallets or cases. E-commerce fulfillment is defined by 'each-picking', picking individual items to fulfill thousands of unique customer orders daily.
- Labor Intensity: The granular nature of each-picking requires significantly more labor. Walking time can account for over 50% of a picker's day in a non-optimized layout.
- SKU Proliferation: E-commerce businesses often carry a vast and ever-changing number of Stock Keeping Units (SKUs), demanding highly organized and dense storage solutions.
- Order Velocity: The pressure to reduce 'click-to-ship' times from days to hours puts immense strain on every process, from picking and packing to sorting and shipping.
- Operational Audit: Analyzing 12-24 months of order data to understand order profiles, SKU velocity (ABC analysis), lines per order, and seasonality.
- Process Flow Mapping: Charting the current journey of an order from receipt to dispatch to identify wasted movement, bottlenecks, and areas for improvement.
- Slotting Strategy: Developing a plan to place inventory logically. Fast-moving items (A-movers) should be in easily accessible, ergonomic locations to minimize travel time, while slower-moving items can be stored in higher-density areas.
- Future-State Visioning: Projecting growth over the next 3-5 years to ensure the new design is not just efficient today, but scalable for tomorrow.
- Carton Flow Racks: Ideal for fast-moving, medium-sized products. They use gravity to present totes or cartons at the pick face, ensuring first-in, first-out (FIFO) rotation.
- High-Density Shelving: Perfect for storing thousands of small, slow-moving SKUs in an organized manner.
- Selective Pallet Racking: Still necessary for holding reserve inventory that replenishes the forward-pick locations.
- Conveyor & Sortation Systems: These are the highways of the warehouse. Conveyors transport totes from picking zones to a central packing area, drastically reducing walking time. Downstream sortation systems can then automatically route packed parcels by carrier, region, or service level, eliminating manual sorting errors and bottlenecks at the shipping dock.
- Pick-to-Light / Voice-Directed Picking: These technologies guide pickers to the correct location and specify the quantity to pick, significantly improving accuracy and productivity compared to paper-based lists.
- Automated Packing Machines: Solutions that create right-sized boxes, apply shipping labels, and seal cartons can dramatically increase throughput in the packing stage.
- Project Management: Our dedicated project managers coordinate all trades and timelines, ensuring your project stays on schedule and on budget.
- Permitting & Compliance: We navigate the complexities of Canadian building codes and safety standards, ensuring your facility is fully compliant.
- Installation & Commissioning: Our 100+ strong team of certified installers, backed by a network of 800+ vetted vendor partners, ensures every component is installed to the highest standard.
- Phased Implementation: We specialize in executing complex projects within live, operational facilities, carefully phasing the work to minimize disruption to your daily business.