Your warehouse is the heart of your supply chain. It shouldn’t be a cost center; it should be a strategic asset that drives growth and customer satisfaction. Supply Velocity offers expert warehouse consulting services designed to transform your operations, optimize workflow, and deliver a significant return on investment.
As a hands-on warehouse consultant team with decades of experience, we consult closely with your leaders to evaluate current processes, integrate best practice methods, and maximize efficiency and productivity across material handling, inventory management, and fulfillment.
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Proven expertise in optimizing warehouse operations for industry leaders
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The Impact: Your Warehouse, Optimized
We are a results-driven warehouse consulting firm. Our hands-on approach to warehouse operations consulting delivers measurable improvements in efficiency, accuracy, and cost-effectiveness.
- 55% Increase in Labor Productivity By redesigning a warehouse layout and warehouse design based on operational data and implementing Lean optimization principles, we helped a client dramatically improve their workflow and achieve a massive boost in labor productivity.
- Improved Order Fill Rate from 88% to 98.5% For an e-commerce distributor, we optimized inventory management and picking processes, increasing their fill rate to world-class levels while supporting a 200% increase in order volume.
- $450,000 in Obsolete Inventory Eliminated Through a disciplined inventory rationalization and 5S process, we enabled a client to remove obsolete SKUs, freeing up over $450,000 in cash and creating valuable warehouse space.
- 100% Labor Productivity Improvement When a client expanded into a new facility, our data-driven warehouse design strategy allowed them to achieve double the productivity with the same headcount from day one.
The Modern Warehouse Challenge
Warehouse operations have never been more complex. E-commerce has reshaped customer expectations for faster, more accurate fulfillment. Meanwhile, labor shortages and rising costs create constant pressure to do more with less.
Without a clear strategy, it’s easy for operations to be hampered by common challenges like inefficient travel paths, poor space utilization, forklift congestion, and inaccurate inventory management that leads to stockouts or costly excess.
Material handling choices and warehouse automation (for example, automating cycle counts or label printing) must be integrated carefully with your WMS to avoid bottlenecks.
Our team of experienced warehouse consultants helps you overcome these hurdles. We implement best practice solutions to improve every facet of your warehouse management and operations, from workflow design to automation and safety.
Our Data-Driven Warehouse Consulting Approach
Sustainable optimization is built on data and collaboration. Our proven “Assess, Facilitate, Implement” methodology ensures we deliver solutions that are not only effective but are also embraced by your team for long-term success.
- Phase 1: Assess We begin with a deep dive into your current state. Our consultants are on-site, using tools like time studies, process flow mapping, and spaghetti diagrams to quantify inefficiency and identify the root causes of your challenges. We evaluate every aspect of your operation, from receiving to shipping, including material handling equipment, forklift routes, and warehouse automation readiness.
- Phase 2: Facilitate This is where change begins. We consult side-by-side with your team to analyze the data and co-design the future state. Whether creating a new warehouse layout or re-engineering a core workflow, we guide your people through the process, building consensus and empowering them with Lean principles. Where appropriate, we integrate automation to automate repetitive tasks and reduce errors.
- Phase 3: Implement A plan is only valuable when executed flawlessly. We provide project management to bring the new design to life. We help manage the transition, train your staff, and establish KPIs to measure success and drive a culture of continuous improvement.
Our Warehouse Consulting Services
Our consulting services are focused on the highest-impact areas of your warehouse or distribution center. We tailor our approach to your specific needs, whether you’re building a new facility or seeking to optimize an existing one.
Warehouse & Plant Operations Assessment
Our comprehensive assessment is the first step toward transformation. This diagnostic provides a complete picture of your operational health by analyzing labor productivity, space utilization, inventory, and safety. We evaluate and benchmark performance, then deliver a data-backed roadmap with prioritized recommendations for a clear path to improved efficiency.
Facility Layout
An intelligent warehouse layout is the foundation of an efficient operation. Using data on SKU velocity and order profiles, we design facility layouts and warehouse design standards that minimize travel time and improve the overall flow of people and products. We focus on optimizing every zone – from receiving to packing – to create a seamless and productive workflow for material handling and forklift traffic.
LEAN Warehousing—Warehouse Optimization
Go beyond basic organization and embed a culture of continuous improvement. Our LEAN Warehousing consulting services focus on systematically eliminating waste from your processes. We implement 5S, map value streams, and optimize workflow steps to remove non-value-added activities, driving superior warehouse optimization.
Ecommerce Fulfillment
Direct-to-consumer fulfillment presents unique challenges. We specialize in designing processes for high-volume, small-order environments. We help you improve picking strategies, enhance inventory accuracy, and design efficient packing stations to increase throughput and meet the demanding expectations of online shoppers.
Success Stories: Real-World Warehouse Transformation
The Client: Grand Rock Exhaust Systems
The Challenge: Rapid growth had overwhelmed their warehouse, leading to inefficient operations and excess raw material inventory.
Our Solution: We conducted a Lean Assessment and used spaghetti diagrams and time studies to design a new, optimized warehouse layout, complemented by 5S training and inventory rationalization.
The Impact: The new processes resulted in a 55% increase in overall warehouse labor productivity and the elimination of $450,000 in obsolete inventory.
The Client: Crescent Parts & Equipment
The Challenge: The HVAC distributor needed a strategic layout for a new, larger facility that would maximize efficiency from day one.
Our Solution: We performed a detailed SKU velocity analysis to design a warehouse that placed the fastest-moving items in the most accessible locations, streamlining the picking process.
The Impact: The new branch achieved a 100% labor productivity improvement, handling twice the volume with the same headcount, thanks to the data-driven layout.
The Client: Tacony Corporation
The Challenge: The e-commerce seller was struggling with fulfillment, operating at an 88% fill rate while facing a 200% increase in order volume.
Our Solution: We implemented a multi-criteria inventory classification system and redesigned their picking process and warehouse layout to align with e-commerce best practices.
The Impact: Tacony’s fill rate improved to 98.5%, inventory accuracy increased, and they successfully managed the massive growth with 10% fewer warehouse employees.
“We used Supply Velocity to learn about warehouse optimization…”
“We used Supply Velocity to learn about warehouse optimization. One of the key characteristics of Supply Velocity is that they listened to our requirements and our future sales growth as objectives. We learned how to analyze warehouse processes using lean tools and our future sales growth as objectives.” — HARIS TOCALIC, PRESIDENT, GRAND ROCK, INC.
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Stop letting inefficiency dictate your bottom line. Let’s build a warehouse operation that fuels your growth. Contact our team for a no-obligation discussion about how our warehouse operations consulting can help you achieve your goals.