 Building a new distribution centre or expanding an existing one, represents a large capital investment for any company. At Group 4L2 our goal is to work closely with the client to ensure a facility that will optimize operational processes and minimize the total capital investment required.
 Often distribution centers are being designed with high-level information which can lead to a facility that is often larger than necessary. It is not uncommon that a new site be based primarily on an existing site(s) with a simple safety factor being applied. When dealing with large capital investments inaccuracy can equate to large sums of money that may be used elsewhere.
At Group 4L2 we analyze your data and operations effectively to ensure that you maximize your capital investment. Using our tools, methodology and practical approach we ensure that the facility in question will best meet your medium to long-term operational goals.
A properly detailed analysis ensures that the overall square footage to-be-constructed is more accurate. The importance? Building too large is costly while building too small will elevate congestion and increase operational costs.
Our analysis balances capacity and operational requirements ensuring that the square-footage will best meet your operational objectives. Factors such as aisle width, strategic location of building columns, and equipment to be used have a direct impact on the total area required.
At Group 4L2 we offer the following services:
- Validate existing capacity and throughput
- Analyze historical sales and product data
- Integrate expected future growth
- Validate site location (if required)
- Evaluate total land area required
- Prepare facility layouts based on operational workflows and constraints
- Provide support to Architectural and Engineering teams to make certain that operational decisions are not jeopardized.
- Prepare and/or evaluate requirements and budgets
- Construction
- Resources
- Equipment
- Determine the final positioning of products and equipment to maximize total operational efficiency
- Per product zone/grouping
- Per operational constraint
- Selling unit of measure (Case, Unit, Inner, Pallet pick)
- Secure items (high value)
- Hazardous items
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