GCL structures five types of mandates to streamline operations, from a first diagnostic to selecting an outsourcing partner.
The layout diagnosis audits your distribution operations, evaluates operational performance and benchmarks it against best practices in your sector, with order fulfillment and customer service as the measure. It also feeds the priorities we track under continuous improvement in warehouse operations. This comprehensive warehouse assessment delivers:
An independent warehouse consultant recommends the layout, the automation level and the warehouse management system that fit your operation, because it sells no licences and earns no vendor commission. GCL specifies what your throughput, your SKU profile and your building actually require, then holds technology suppliers to that specification during selection.
More than 40 years of multi-sector mandates back that position, with teams delivering projects across Canada, the United States, Europe, France, Morocco and Brazil. BRP, L'Oréal, Yves Rocher, Hershey's and Dare have trusted our field expertise across the industries we serve.
Two mandates illustrate the range. We delivered productivity gains for a leading Canadian manufacturer of plastic profile systems for the window and door market. Space and productivity both improved for one of the world's largest manufacturers and distributors of chemicals. Interim management covers the gap when your warehouse managers lack capacity during a transition.
Most warehouses gain storage capacity without new square footage, once you rework slotting, rack configuration and vertical space. Our diagnostic measures cube utilization, aisle widths and clear height, then models the layout scenarios that recover the most space utilization before you sign a lease or build.
Forecast volumes, order profile, throughput at peak, building clear height, dock configuration and workflow between receiving, storage and shipping drive every design decision. We model those variables first, then set the design criteria and the automation level, so warehouse design follows demand instead of assumptions.
The right shelving follows from your SKU profile, pallet rotation, order picking method and available clear height, not from a catalogue. We compare the configurations that suit your rotation, then write the specifications, so suppliers bid on your warehouse capacity requirements rather than their standard offer.
Automation earns its place when volumes, throughput and labour constraints justify the investment, and the diagnostic settles that question before you contact any supplier. We model both scenarios against your forecasts and your workforce reality, because warehouse automation applied to a weak process only moves the bottleneck.
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