Abco Automation
We do the Math
Why We Want to Educate our Clients about Distribution Center Design
I recently generated a word cloud of the abco automation site. This takes all the text from all of our blog posts and assigns them a weight based on how often they appear. The more frequently a word appears the larger it is in the resulting picture. Taking a quick look at our cloud I noticed some words that we clearly use very frequently. Distribution, no surprise right? That's what we do. Our main job is to design (also one of the large words) and build (no slouch, …
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Accuracy in Distribution Can Cost You Millions
Accuracy in distribution is a major pain point for some companies. So how accurate is the picking in your distribution center? In a retail distribution center a 3% error rate can cost you from $650,000 to 3 million dollars. Every year. So are you still thinking that your 97% accuracy rate is good? Probably not. So the question is how do you increase accuracy in distribution? The best way might be to take a hard look at the ROI in automation. Human beings make mistakes, and you can …
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How is that System Integration going?
Ever see a material handling system integration that didn't seem that.....integrated? I think we all have. It takes a lot of work, skill and careful analysis to get an integration to perform to its best. Take a look at how abco automation helped the Gilt Groupe with integrating legacy systems and new ideas to maintain their fanatical customer service even while the company kept growing in orders of magnitude. Like our picture? Feel free to share it on …
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Why Order Lines Don’t Matter in Distribution Center Design
Hi I am Cory Flemings from abco automation and welcome back to Whiteboard Insights. Today I want to tell you a story about a discussion I had recently about cubic velocity. It goes kind of like this. Back in the history of man we created the distribution center design and before there were computers we basically had static locations and somebody walked through a warehouse and getting stuff off the shelves. And that is how we got to this world of distribution center design. Many of us are …
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How Supply Chain Optimization Can Help You Beat Your Competition
Hi I am Cory Flemings from abco automation. I want to welcome you back to whiteboard insights. Today we're going to talk about the supply chain optimization and why it matters. I heard a story one time about a Vice President of Distribution for a very well-known health and beauty aid manufacturer who gave this talk about when he took over as VP. He asked what is the cash to cash cycle line for a particular brand of shampoo? What is the time from the point where we spend money on boxes …
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The Distribution Center as a Competitive Advantage: Gilt Groupe
The Distribution Center as a Competitive Advantage: Gilt Groupe Read the transcript of "The Distribution Center as a Competitive Advantage: Gilt Groupe". So what we have is an engine for production. We can get everything stored properly here and it makes order picking efficient and very cost-effective. Gilt Groupe is a private sale, flash sales company founded back in 2007. We buy luxury items and sell them on a first-come first-served basis, so it creates a competitive shopping …
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We Design Distribution Centers
We are an American, material-handling engineering company whose core emphasis is on designing Distribution Centers with the principles of the Pareto Curve in mind. We focus on designing and installing turn-key, integrated-technology, design distribution centers that accurately generate more throughput in less space with fewer people.
Our solutions are “hyper-productive” and offer a very attractive return on investment.
abco automation can design distribution center automation concepts for your company that are more financially efficient (the combination of capital cost, space and labor) than most American systems integrators. We possess 49 years of collective automation know-how and excel by virtue of having exposure to European distribution processes and technologies –concepts that most American integrators and operations professionals have never seen. In a competitive scenario, we clearly outdistance our counterparts in the ideas we bring to the table. At the same time, we are not a manufacturer beholden to sell a particular brand and have the ability to shop available suppliers for the lowest cost.
We use European concepts, but American business practices.
- Experts in automated technology
- Experts in process and mathematical analysis
- Not beholden to any particular manufacturer
- Not just a consultant; we install and support our systems
System Integration
Material Handling System Integrator
The Sum is Greater than the Parts
abco automation has over 19 years combined experience working for automation companies in supply chain integration. We know their material handling equipment inside and out. We also know how to get the optimum performance from their components and how to leverage …
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The Best DC Design
We do the Math
We do the Math
So why does it matter that abco automation does the math? Math is the basis for everything when it comes to a distribution center. Your solution, the components of your solution, your SKUs the throughput, your workforce, your expenditures. All of it is based on …
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Parteo Principle in Your DC
The Pareto Principle and Distribution
Is the Pareto Principle Costing you Money?
Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto observed in 1906 that 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of the population. Business-management thinker, Joseph M. Juran, developed the 80/20 principle and named it after Pareto by observing that 20% of …
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