DiversiTech

Project Background

DiversiTech opened their East Park DC in 2003.  Business changes and growth fueled the need to review operations and develop a strategic roadmap for its distribution operations.  The management, although relatively new, made good progress and continues to push forward with operations improvement initiatives.  DiversiTech partnered with Peach State to help create labor standards and identify and quantify additional improvement initiatives.

Project Objectives

• Develop benchmarks for existing operations
• Develop process maps
• Create standards using MOST
• Identify, rank and quantify improvement initiatives

Solution Benefits

• Identified 17 of 43 total initiatives that could be implemented in 4-6 weeks
• Developed 14 detailed standards using MOST
• Standards revealed DiversiTech  could increase overall productivity 38%
• The standards were tailored to DiversiTech provided a benchmark of what level of activity the operators should be
• Savings of over $400k would be realized if all 17 initiatives were implemented with an investment of under $250k