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Case Study: Designer Shoe Warehouse

Case Study: Designer Shoe Warehouse
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(DBEUMEF GROUP FROM ZERO TO FULL AUTOMATiON SORTATION TRANSFORMS DSW’S RETAIL REPLENISHMENT DSW DESIGNER SHOE WAREHOUSE* Designer Shoe Warehouse - DSW -is a leading footwear and accessories retailer that offers a wide selection of brand name dress, casual and athletic footwear and accessories for women, men and children. With over 430 retail outlets in the U.S., as well as 370 leased departments for other retailers and extensive online sales channels, DSW has been growing and seeking to deliver more value to its customers. “As the company evolved, and our relationship with our vendors became stronger, we became less of a close-out, opportunistic company and we started buying in-season merchandise, “said Jeff Girard, Senior Vice President of Distribution & Fulfillment at DSW. “What that meant was we were able to tell our vendors what sizes we wanted, and we realized we had a big opportunity to change the way we replenish.” CUSTOMER SPOTLIGHT Designer Shoe Warehouse (DSW) Distribution Center Columbus, Ohio www.dsw.com CASE STUDY

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DYNAMIC STORE REPLENISHMENT DSW initiated a strategic shift from a seasonal push model, to a dynamic store inventory replenishment model. The DSW Distribution Center in Columbus, Ohio is the company's main facility for retail replenishment of footwear. In the past, store inventory was replenished through a seasonal push strategy, serviced by a manual case-based, cross dock operation. When a store sold out of several sizes of a popular shoe - size 7, size 8, size 8 % - the only way the store could re-stock those sizes was to order an entire case of the full size range. This limited DSW’s...

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UNIQUE TECHNOLOGY DRIVES BEUMER CROSS-BELT SORTER Unique to the BEUMER System, the crossbelt uses a high efficiency, on demand, contactless energy supply to transfer power from the stationary sorter track to the moving sorter trays. DSW also saves energy via BEUMER's state of the art OptiDrives which are more energy efficient than linear drives. Specially designed to operate more efficiently and use up to 80% less energy compared to asynchronous linear motor drives, the BEUMER OptiDrive delivers up to 66% greater start-up force and features a proven online diagnostic and remote maintenance...

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