Boston Industrial to Design 3 Western CAT Parts Depots!
During the first quarter of 2007, 3 of Caterpillar's Western Dealers commissioned Boston Industrial Consulting (BIC) to redesign, improve or expand their Parts Depots. This currently increases BIC's total CAT dealership involvement to 6 dealers.
In January 2007, Empire CAT, one of the country's largest volume dealerships based in Mesa, AZ, hired BIC to make operational improvements to its current parts stockroom. Improvements were aimed at increasing capacity and throughput, as well as truck loading efficiencies ina limited footprint. A second project with Empire is also in progress, involving the Master Planning for a new site to include a larger Parts Depot and Equipment Shops. This operation will employ more automated and space efficient equipment than the conventional systems currently employed in many CAT dealerships.
Cashman CAT, which serves the majority of the Nevada territory, hired BIC in February 2007 to plan, justify and make recommendations for automation and system enhancements in two of its larger parts operations. These two Parts Depots are currently under study, and the solutions presented will have an unbiased Return-on-Investment analysis for improved systems developed prior to management approval.
Wheeler CAT, located in Salt Lake City, is another large western dealer undergoing heavy growth in line volume and total activity. The parts operation is based with the need to accommodate several more years of growth in an already limited footprint. BIC will work with Wheeler's internal group to evaluate, analyze solutions that will improve efficiency and customer turn time, while meeting the ROI justification threshold.
Boston Industrial continues its partnership with Caterpillar Dealerships, helping find equipment and systems to improve efficiency, workflow and customer order turn time. These additions increase Boston Industrial's client base to six CAT dealerships. Project work for CAT dealerships has centered on designing effective and efficient Parts Depots and Stockrooms for CAT, and has increased in scope to shop efficiency programs. Boston Industrial's success on these projects has been greatly reliant on the CAT dealers' internal capabilities and the selected vendors used for automation equipment and WMS systems implementation.
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