Project Background

JBS-Swift and company was using an older conveyor system in their two level pick module with a manual sort for their shipping system in Marshalltown, Iowa. A plan was developed to implement a new automatic sortation system that would also automatically manifest cases for each order and sort the boxes to the appropriate shipping door.

Project Background

Sara Lee’s Coffee and Tea division had acquired several different companies and wanted to integrate them into their current business. Sara Lee was shipping most customers’ products by either route deliveries or by direct (LTL) shipments. They wanted to analyze and optimize their manufacturing and distribution network giving consideration to manufacturing locations and costs, supply and production capacities, customer demand patterns, and distribution capabilities and costs.