Dr Vita Case Study: A Lesson in Automation and Reduced Labor
Strategic Start-up
As a startup, Dr Vita wanted to be the lowest cost and highest margin provider. To do this, a focus in operations was to manufacture strategic items and to have their operations as lean and productive as possible. This translated into requiring as little floor space and labor as humanly possible. Dr. Vita engaged with ISD experts to construct an e-commerce order fulfillment facility to make these goals a reality.
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ISD Team Integrates Automated Technologies
Optimize floor space from floor to ceiling
Require truly little labor
Provide a high throughput
And make it incredibly cost effective
Efficient Ecommerce Order Fullfillment
ISD’s experience and success in utilizing its OptimalOps-Process in ecommerce order fulfillment applications for dietary supplements, health foods, and sports nutrition market segment was well documented, allowing Dr. Vita to –
Achieve the lowest cost per line/per order
Utilize divided totes to increase throughput and reduce wasted material transportation and storage space
Implement cubic measuring of every SKU and the algorithms to take advantage of the throughput and space requirements
ISD’s OptimalOps- Process
The OptimalOps-Process used by ISD provides eight key steps to help assure a system is created, designed, and implemented that meets organizations key objectives and KPIs. It’s imperative that the system(s) implemented work holistically and don’t create islands of automation.
Automation Connectivity + Success
Islands of automation simply rob organizations of valuable performance levels. By having each zone and system communicate with each other properly, each component performs better than it would individually. This helps ensure that return on investment (ROI) and other financial goals are easily achieved and continues to perform in the future.
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