Consulting

Industrial Storage’s many years of experience allows us to help you design your facility design phoenix whether it’s manufacturing, food service, FDA, pharmaceutical, general warehousing or a distribution center. Many factors are analyzed when designing a facility including, but not limited to, inbound volume, putaway, inventory management, production, manufacturing, picking, shipping, cutoff times, hardware, software, codes, processes, vendors, service providers, industry rules and regulations. All of these items are ever changing and designing a system that is current, yet flexible and expandable is key.

The biggest advantage of having Industrial Storage design your new facility is our industry expertise and experience. Moving and/or expanding can be stressful because it is not done regularly and knowing all of the new nuances since the last move can be challenging. We help clients every day so we know what to expect and where the pitfalls can be which allows you to leverage our expertise.

The material handling and supply chain industry are both changing very rapidly. Our industry knowledge will allow you to see and consider equipment, services and processes that you may not know exist. We are here to help and our day to day activities as well as being associated with every major industry professional organization always keeps our knowledge current and fresh.

Industrial Storage can help you choose and design your technology system needs to work with the equipment in the facility and those that touch it.

Industrial Storage will review your needs and work with you on how to best use these types of systems and where and how to pay for them.

Industrial Storage’s expertise can help you reduce your risk and costs and improve your profitability by focusing on all aspects of your supply chain needs. Whether it is to work on processes to improve your S&OP process to doing an inventory optimization, we can help improve it.

•  Cost Reduction
•  Risk Mitigation
•  Profit Improvement
•  Inventory Optimization

Industrial Storage will focus on your data and what it’s saying with a “fresh set of eyes”. Whether your demand is fixed or dynamic, a push or pull system, single location or multi, we will help to focus on the data and look at how to minimize risk, where and how to position inventory, network design and sourcing decisions. We can also work with you on how to schedule your manufacturing.

Industrial Storage can improve your operations by improving your costs, service and quality. Our group has been successful working in large or small businesses and we have experience in many different industries. Our unique process will analyze the interactions with your customers, both internal and external. Many times the hand offs from one group to another within the company are the areas that need the most focus.

•  How are we doing? (Benchmarking)
•  What are we doing poorly?
•  What are we good at?
•  Where are we in relation to our competition?
•  How much can we improve?
•  How and what should we measure?
•  What should the network look like?
•  How do we help you make the changes necessary?

We have experience in lean and process improvement projects that we can utilize to help improve your processes. We focus on how you are doing in comparison to the industry by benchmarking against world class operations to highlight areas of opportunity.

We can also work with you on implementing systems that will improve your operation. We have experience in the selection, design and implementation of Warehouse Management Systems, Transportation Systems, Labor Management, as well as Slotting to maximize the throughput of your building, associates, and product to create the best customer experience.

One of the fastest and easiest ways to cut your operating costs is through freight spend reduction transportation. We can help you find those hidden opportunities in your freight spend and help implement them for immediate benefits to your bottom line. Some of our capabilities are:

•  What provider is the best for our operation?
•  What rates should you be paying?
•  What data and reporting do you need to be successful?

There are many ways to improve productivity in your warehouse. Industrial Storage can help bring higher productivity and improvement standards to your business. We can help consult your business in multiple ways to develop a more productive work place:

•  Adequate Communication
•  Continuous Improvement
•  Focus on your employees skills and capabilities
•  Implement an influential training program
•  Development of procedure standards
•  erformance Analytics (Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, etc.)

Industrial Storage can help your business with inventory optimization. The goal of inventory optimization is to ‘optimize’ your inventory levels across your business. By determining specific forecasting for your warehouse, Industrial Storage can help with your demand, lead time and issue size.

For retailers and distributors, there are always inventory challenges. At Industrial Storage, we can help determine the best inventory techniques for your business by researching the flow of inventory based on your warehouses demand.

•  Establish annual stocking policies
•  Prepare inventory budgets
•  Maintain an automatic inventory system
•  Inventory Turnover Ratio
•  ABC Analysis and ABC Classification

With years of supply chain expertise, Industrial Storage can help consult you to find the best site for your business. Whether you need a new data center, warehouse, distribution center, or manufacturing plant, we’re here to help. With countless years of experience in Arizona, as well as many jobs nationally across the United States, we can help you find the best opportunity to gain the most return on investment.

•  Develop a strategic plan
•  Figure out the specifics
•  Understand the numbers (Site, Transportation, Utility, Tax)
•  Labor Costs
•  Is the site the right move for everyone?