The Challenge To support their customers, Lewis Bear operates two modern distribution centers in Florida, one in Pensacola and another in Panama City. Both operations had been experiencing challenges relative to order accuracy, SKU proliferation, longer truck loading times, and operator performance during seasonal peak demand periods. Furthermore, the trend for a typical order showed a decrease in the amount of items per order line, and an increase in the number of SKUs per pallet. From an average of 11 SKUs per pallet only three years ago,to 49 SKUs per pallet currently, order complexity and fulfillment time was increasing drastically. During the same time period SKU count increased from 530 to almost 1200 SKUs, with no end to growth in sight. Our Solution The Lewis B

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