Past warehousing projects

Here are past 1-semester projects done by classes in Warehouse & Distribution Science. You will find descriptions of the company and its operations and concerns, just as presented to the class.

• January 2009:
  • Improve order-picking from the carton flow rack area at Walgreen's DC in Anderson, SC
• August 2008:
  • Determine which size boxes S. P. Richards Co. should use to ship product to customers
  • Devise a model that can be used to predict or evaluate rates of case-picking in a cold chain environment.
• January 2008:
  • Slot the split-case fast-pick area of the DC in Norcross, GA for Access Business Group.
  • Evaluate slotting and control strategies for an implementation of Kiva Systems at a the Houston, TX DC of S. P. Richards Co.
• August 2007:
  • Slot the full-case fast-pick area of the DC in Norfolk, VA for Pepsi Bottling Group.
  • Adapt bucket brigade order-picking to the special situation at the DC in Norcross, GA for Access Business Group.
• January 2007:
  • Improve order-picking productivity at a BAX 3rd party distribution center in Ohio
  • Design the layout for expansion of the DC at Dos Pinos, the largest distributor of dairy products in Costa Rica
• August 2006:
  • Improve order-picking productivity at Carolina Biological Supply in North Carolina
• January 2006:
  • Design logic to slot by product affinity, for Manhattan Associates, vendor of software for warehouse and supply chain management software; and
  • Design the layout for a new DC for Ace International, Republic of Panama.
• January 2005: Improve order-picking productivity at the Morristown, NJ distribution center of S. P. Richards, a wholesale distributor of office products
• September 2004: Improve product layout for International Truck and Engine, a service parts distributor in Georgia
• January 2004: Design a template for distribution centers of S. P. Richards Co.
• January 2003: Improve product layout for S. P. Richards Co., Morristown, NJ distribution center