Worldsource - the art of integration


		8/1/2010

Overview:
Burlington Coat Factory is one of the most successful retailers in the United States, with more than $2.5 billion in annual sales, and over 350 department stores located nationwide.

Over the past decade, Worldsource has worked closely with Burlington to understand their unique operating requirements, sharing our expertise to help develop winning systems.

Our ability to consistently deliver projects on time and within budget is the reason that we continue to be Burlington's material handling system supplier of choice.

Creative:
Depicted above is one of four Burlington distribution facilities. As with many fast growing businesses, Burlington requires quick implementation with no disruption to their operation. The above project was no exception. Through advanced planning and teamwork, solid project management and innovative installation techniques, we were able to redesign and deliver a world-class processing system in an ongoing 2-shift operation.

Benefit:
Burlington Coat Factory has long embraced state of the art technology. As with all of Burlington facilities, the emphasis has been on maximizing use of the cubic volume of the distribution centers. Through careful planning, Burlington has been able to grow and support more than 350 stores without the usual proportional growth in square footage of their distribution facilities. by implementing creative design we have utilized approximately 80% of the building cube.

Equipment:
The facility supports six unique operations:

Receiving - Merchandise is checked in and transported to one of three areas. Flat to Hang Processing, Space Saver Processing, or QPM (Quick Process Merchandise) processing.
Space Saver Processing - Consists of the merchandise breakdown, sorting and marking areas in a multiple level racking structure. Conveyors move totes in and out of the different processing areas as required. Completed merchandise is either placed into holding lanes for later shipment or sent directly to the induction of the tilt tray system for a distribution sort to the store level.
Tilt Tray Sortation - High speed Crisplant tilt tray sorters are used to distribute flat merchandise to the store level through an allocated distribution.
Garment on Hanger - Flat product is received, hung, and ticketed prior to being introduced to the high speed automated PSB hanging garment sorter which are used to distribute hanging merchandise to stores through an allocated distribution.
Quick Process Merchandise - Consists of fast turnaround full case merchandise which requires the "seeding" of store level tickets into cartons prior to being directed to shipping for a store level distribution.
Shipping Sortation System - This is where it all comes together. Cartons from all of the processing areas are routed to the Buschman high speed sliding shoe sorter which directs shipped cartons to the dock doors for fluid loading into waiting trucks. Hanging garments merchandise is also married to the store orders at this point.

Summary:
Worldsource's commitment to understanding the customer's business and employment of creative solutions, combined with efficient project management, solid performance and service, has earned us another satisfied long term customer.