New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc. designs and develops innovative, highly functional and reliable shoes. Based in Boston, MA, New Balance has three North American warehouses (Ontario, CA, Compton, CA and Lawrence, MA) that process 26 million pairs of shoes per year.
Needing to maximize productivity in order to move the millions of athletic shoes sold annually, New Balance looked to Abel Womack to select just the right equipment for each of its various warehouse applications.
New equipment and systems included:
- Counterbalance trucks for receiving
- Wire-guided swing reach trucks and pallet trucks for pick and put away in narrow aisles
- Wire-guided orderpickers for case picking
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 Click here to view a video by Rick Thorne, Distribution Engineering Manager – New England for New Balance Athletic Shoes.
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