The Challenge Within the past 24 months alone lucy activewear opened 30 new retail stores, giving it a total of 66 outlets, with another 10 to 15 new stores planned to open this coming year. The challenge was how to keep existing stores efficiently stocked with the more than 2,000 SKUs of apparel products while new stores were continually being added. Two years ago, the company’s manual paper picking operation, and no warehouse management system (WMS) was able to handle the volume for 30 stores. The increased growth, both in stores and in volume created a huge demand in throughput, which old the system would not be able to handle efficiently. Our Solution About 80 percent of products are crossdocked directly through the DC to its stores. The remaining 25 percent of pr

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