What’s New at the West Warehouse
by Erika Meiners
Walking through the West Warehouse right now, you’d never guess that we are the busiest we’ve ever been in Con- tract Packaging. In anticipation of new business at the West Facility last year, we knew we had to start thinking about how to maximize floor space in an already very full warehouse. To truly understand the 344,813 square feet of space that that makes up the warehouse, Mark McWethy, Jerry Law- rence and Rick Rice worked to come up with a detailed map of the entire space. For weeks, warehouse employees were able to study the jumbo map that was printed and hung and were ultimately able to better adjust the flow of traffic and maximize floor space. And it wasn’t just a little rearranging – they completely flip-flopped the entire warehouse (except for Mix ingredients). Finished product is now at the east end, Karlin moved to the west end and they were able to make room for ¼ of the warehouse to be dedicated to the new Project Periscope. A big thank you to everyone on A & B shifts at the Warehouse for their efforts! In addition to rearranging, we knew that coming up with a way to record data about the contents of the Warehouse would help with becoming proactive instead of just saying “The Warehouse is FULL!”. Now we have data that tells us information including how much was picked, pallets received, trucks in, total finished product picked, partial pal- lets, and total Periscope pallets. Ben Kinn and Kerry Tumleson are continuing to work on data so that eventually we will even be able to calculate the percentage full for all three sections of the warehouse. Thank you to everyone who helped with all of these changes! Much discussion, input, extra work and staring at the jumbo map in Jerry’s office went into making all of this happen. Also, now that the Warehouse is re-arranged, we thought it was time that they got some new wheels. 19 shiny new forklifts and 1 push pull unit complete with a new gantry system and battery charging/changing area arrived in June! A-Shift Warehouse: Andrew O’Brien, Craig Friday, Gerry Temmen, John Loomis, Josh Saxton, Kyle Lawrence, Austin Young, Bill Henry, Rob Roath, Jerry Lawrence, Rance Bardo, Shane Stover & Ben Kinn
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