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Whitepaper: 3PL's must maintain flexibility within four walls

Whitepaper: 3PL's must maintain flexibility within four walls
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3PL’S MUST MAiNTAiN FLEXiBiLiTV WiTHiN FOUR WALLS OVERVIEW 3PL companies provide many services to their clients including transportation, warehousing, cross-docking, inventory management, packaging, and freight. For most 3PL's, logistics is the core competence of what they provide to their clients. This is especially helpful when the clients do not have the time, resources, or expertise to focus on their distribution network needs. One of the keys to success for 3PL companies is flexibility within the four walls of the distribution center. Not only do 3PL's need to be flexible with the resources and workforce within the region of the distribution center, 3PL's need to be flexible and adapt to the ever-changing business needs of the client. AUTHOR SPOTLiCHT Brad Radcliffe VP of Sales Sortation & Distribution BEUMER Corporation 800 Apgar Drive Somerset, NJ 08873 Phone: 1-732-893-2800 Fax: 1-732-805-0475 For more information, visit www.beumergroup.com

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DESIGNING A 3PL FACILITY When designing a 3PL facility, there are many unknowns and factors. Length of contract, building ownership, capital equipment ownership and service level requirements, skilled and unskilled labor availability for normal and peak periods are several key factors. These factors are driving 3PL’s to implement much higher levels of automation as compared to the recent past. A few years from now, is the facility going to need to adapt to new clients with new products to be handled? Is the facility going need more racking to handle new client product? Should there be...

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For instance, items can be identified via overhead scan on the sorter. The operator may place items individually on the laydown belt of the semi-automatic induction unit with the barcode face up for a top read scan on the sorter. Or, the facility may utilize a "distro" method of induction. In this scenario, the operator scans the inbound case or tote, which contains a single SKU, and inducts all items from the case or tote. The system assumes that all items inducted are identifiable by that SKU, and the BEUMER system knows exactly what tray it is on. Alternatively, there can be a...

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BEUMER CORPORATION -COMPANY OVERVIEW BEUMER Corporation, located in Somerset, NJ, is a company specializing in the design and supply of material handling and sortation systems. It is a wholly owned member of BEUMER Group, a private company with its headquarters in Germany and approximate annual sales of $980 million and 4,000+ employees. After 75+ years of continuous operation, ownership and management, BEUMER is firmly anchored to meet the material handling requirements and challenges of the new millennium. Through continuous research and development, the BEUMER Group has emerged as the...

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