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Kawahara increases productivity without increasing staff
See how SBI Software can solve your issues—schedule a demo: SBIgrower.com or 503.248.2159 Case Study: Kawahara increases productivity without increasing staff The Grower: The Issue: The Solution: RESULTS Morgan Hill and Gilroy, California LOCATION Specializing in high quality nursery plants CROPS Box store supplier to Home Depot, Orchard Supply, others CUSTOMER MIX 140 acres at two locations PRODUCTION SPACE In theory, lean flow is all about efficiency in process so this challenge was a perfect fit for SBI’s process-driven software system. Working together, our teams determined that several key stages of the process slowed down Kawahara’s overall efficiency. For their two growing sites, we built a cross- docking and rack transfer procedure to reduce costs on order fulfillment betwe