Advance Auto Parts
01 Tuesday, May 17 & 10 Wednesday, May 18 (morning tours) - Both Tours are FULL - suggest standby ticket onsite.
Advance Auto Parts is a leader in the automotive aftermarket, and they say they "have more than 78 years of grease, grime and grit under our fingernails to prove it. We have over 3,500 store and more than 51,000 of the best-equipped Team Members in the business to help you get the right part and find the best answers to all your repair questions." So you're invited to see their Autoparts Distribution Center that handles 65,000 SKUs and services 500 stores and PDQs. The DC ships and receives on average a total of 4.5 million pieces a week and combines the use of voice, RF guns, RF laptops, finger scanners, and Bluetooth applications to process merchandise. They use over 200 pieces of material handling equipment to move product through the DC and run a scanner sortation operation with the ability to scan over 8,500 scans an hour.
CHEP Innovation Center
02 Tuesday, May 17 and 12 Wednesday, May 18 (morning tours)
The 17,500 sq. ft. Innovation Center provides a competitive advantage for our customers who want to evaluate the performance of their products, material handling equipment and packaging. We test pallet and container loads of products for customers around the world and can simulate the conditions these products experience including, extreme heat and cold, humidity, compression, vibration, and impact. We also develop and validate new product offerings and improvements to our existing equipment pool. The CHEP Innovation Center exemplifies “continuous improvement” in action where you’ll see:
- Testing unit load stability, product damage potential and equipment durability with the CHEP Vibration Tester System. The tester simulates unit load vibration from all transportation modes.
- Testing the structural integrity of pallets, containers and full unit loads of product by exerting up to 22,637 kn (50,000 lbs.) of compressive force on material handling products in both racking and stacking configurations.
- Testing the effect of impact on pallets, large containers, our customers’ products and unit loads of up to 1,810 (4,000 lbs.
Rooms To Go
03 Tuesday, May 17 & 13 Wednesday, May 18 (morning tours)
Rooms To Go is
America’s #1 independent furniture company with the nation’s largest furniture inventory. It introduced the concept of displaying and packaging furniture in complete room settings and its distribution centers house hundreds of thousands of furniture pieces ready for delivery today.
The RTG Airport Road facility in Lakeland is the largest furniture distribution facility on the east coast (1.7 million sq.ft.) and distributes orders to customer homes throughout Florida. The facility features an “in-house” developed recycle process that maintains a 94% recycle of the total waste stream. Rooms To Go returns department maintains a 99% accuracy performance on all returns as to quantity, quality assessment and ID of items. You’ll see how the operation uses dollys to move furniture through the delivery bay processes and have inserted unique material handling equipment.Rooms To Go believes in constant communications with its distribution associates and the Distribution arm has developed significant training programs, held in a classroom setting, for both hourly and salary personnel. These training programs are designed to improve interpersonal relationships and general productivity as they relate to attitudes and behavior on the job. Any “how to” technical training issues are separate, and are carried out by each department, within the department, on an as needed basis.
Tompkins Associates
04 Tuesday, May 17 & 14 Wednesday, May 18 (morning tours) - Both Tours are FULL, suggest standby tickets onsite.
The Tompkins Associates Emerging Technology Center showcases the practical integration of multiple supply chain technologies. Experience how this working $6 million dollar, 11,000 sq. ft. center helps you integrate people, software and equipment to improve your supply chain. The Center demonstrates how to compare and evaluate equipment and compatibility before implementation and how to see how material handling modules, subassemblies and software work together before installation. You’ll want to sign on for this hands-on tour.
Walt Disney World Resort / Distribution Services
05 Tuesday, May 17 (morning tour) Morning Tour is Sold Out - suggest standby ticket onsite & 07 Tuesday, May 17 (1:45pm tours) Afternoon Tour is Sold Out - suggest standby ticket onsite
The DC-2 Merchandise facility is located on the Walt Disney Resort property, where other Disney facilities, including Food & Beverage (DC-3), General Supply (DC-G) and overflow merchandise storage (DC-6) also reside. The DC-2 facility contains in excess of 400,000 sq ft, 18,000 pallet storage locations, 27,000 total pick faces and a SKU base of over 20,000. It’s open for business 24 hours a day, 365 days per year and over 300 merchandise locations are serviced from the DC. You’ll see their automated conveyor system (receiving, pick), pick modules (4 modules for unit/each picking) and the Marking Room (first price, re-price).
Southern Wine and Spirits of America, Inc.
06 Tuesday, May 17 (5:00pm tour) & 11 Wednesday, May 18 (morning tour) Both Tours are FULL - suggest standby ticket onsite.
As the country's largest wine and spirits distributor, Southern Wine and Spirits of America, Inc., is nationally recognized by its supplier partners and its customers for its state-of-the-art distribution capabilities and leading-edge information technology. Tour this 1.8 million case capacity facility (650,000 sq. ft.) with its 10,000 SKUs and 75,000 sq. ft. of cooler to see its state-of-the-art WMS, 11 language pick-to-voice system, high-tech control center and imaging and barcode reader system.
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