Warehousing and Distribution

What goes wrong in this environment

Distribution centres live or die on the last three metres. Cartons stall in a flow lane because the wheels are the wrong pitch, dispatch rollers seize after a wet winter, and the transfer plate at the end of the line is so stiff that pickers drag boxes across it instead of spinning them.

What buyers here need

• Flow lanes that keep cartons moving at a controlled pace without accelerating into the pick face
• Roller bearings that still turn after a year in an unheated dispatch bay
• Transfer plates operators can rotate a carton on with one hand
• Spares that arrive as dimensional matches, not near misses