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Package Handling
DCS’s design and engineering team has more than 40 years of experience creating unique parcel handling systems for diverse customer applications. With installations including semi-automated handling in small city distribution centers and fully automated, integrated hubs with advanced conveyor and sorter equipment, DCS routinely thinks outside the box.
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E-Commerce and Multi-Channel Fulfillment
DCS designs and implements end-to-end warehouse automation solutions for e-commerce and multi-channel retailers that address numerous workflow challenges. This includes solutions for receiving, putaway, storage, replenishment, order fulfillment, picking, packing, sortation, and outbound shipping. Our custom integrated warehouse, distribution, and fulfillment systems draw from a deep pool of conventional, semi-automated, and automated material handling technologies.
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Various Distribution Applications
Whether an operation is considering the construction of a new distribution or fulfillment center, or a retrofit or expansion of an existing facility, it’s important to create a solution that fits the overarching supply chain strategy. DCS has four decades of experience designing and integrating comprehensive, end-to-end material handling solutions that meet a multitude of operational goals. Whether conventional, semi-automated, or fully automated, DCS can help your organization implement a custom solution that meets its goals while maximizing return on investment (ROI).
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Supply Chain Consulting
The DCS Supply Chain Consulting team offers a range of services to help your operations address the challenges it faces. Working in partnership with you, DCS consultants analyze your business data- existing workforce, workflow processes, inventory, order data, operations, and more- to determine a strategy that addresses your unique needs. Whether you need an operations assessment, process improvement recommendations, or distribution design services, DCS consultants will help guide you to the material handling system or operational solution that best meets your current and future needs, as well as your budget.
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Distribution Center Design Consulting
DCS provides distribution center design and warehouse design consulting for new facilities, expansions, and existing warehouse retrofits. Using operational data, the DCS consulting team develops facility layouts, processes, material handling strategies, and automation concepts based on the unique requirements of each operation.
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Warehouse Automation Consulting
DCS provides warehouse automation consulting to help distribution and fulfillment operations determine where automation makes sense, what level of automation is appropriate, and how potential solutions align with operational and financial goals.
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Operations Assessment & Optimization Consulting
DCS provides warehouse and distribution center operations with assessment and optimization consulting to help identify inefficiencies, improve productivity, and develop a clear path toward better performance.
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Supply Chain Strategy & Optimization Consulting
DCS provides supply chain strategy and optimization consulting to help organizations define how their distribution operations should evolve to support broader business goals.
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Warehouse Technology & Software Consulting
DCS provides warehouse technology and software consulting to help organizations assess existing systems, define requirements, and develop a technology strategy aligned with their operational needs and future goals.
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Supply Chain Network Design & Optimization Consulting
DCS provides supply chain network design and optimization consulting to help organizations determine how facilities, inventory, transportation, and fulfillment should work together across their distribution network.
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Customer Support
Customer Support
Keeping your warehouse operations and material handling systems running smoothly and at the peak of productivity are the goals of DCS’ Customer Service Team. By partnering with DCS, your warehouse automation solution is supported from commissioning to end of life. You’ll receive comprehensive in-house training of your personnel, including specialized training of your designated internal system expert. Plus, DCS offers a complete package of spare parts and expert system troubleshooting support from qualified engineers dedicated to your installation.
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System Design and Integration
System Design & Integration
DCS offers a broad range of material handling equipment and automated system design, installation, and integration services for a multitude of projects. These include retrofits, expansions, upgrades, and more. While every project is unique, our system design and execution processes are the same, encompassing meticulous attention to detail, frequent communication, and a dedicated partnership with our clients.
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Lifecycle Services
Stop reactive repairs. Lifecycle Services provides expert preventive maintenance and 24/7 technical support to protect your automation and MHE availability.
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Retail Distribution
Designed Conveyor Systems (DCS) engineers retail distribution center automation, warehouse execution software and material handling systems that keep stores stocked and orders moving through every channel and season.
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Pet Care
Pet food distribution operations are anything but standard. From bulky kibble bags to delicate fish tanks, stock keeping unit (SKU) complexity and fulfillment pressure are always on the rise. Designed Conveyor Systems (DCS) partners with leading pet retailers to design and engineer automation, software, and material handling systems that keep operations agile, accurate, and ready for what’s next.
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Home Improvement
When your distribution center handles everything from hammers to hot tubs, operational complexity isn’t a challenge—it’s your daily reality. Home improvement retailers face intense pressure to meet rising consumer expectations across multiple channels—from in-store pickups to last-mile delivery. At Designed Conveyor Systems (DCS), we specialize in engineering material handling and automation solutions that help home improvement distribution centers keep pace, reduce cost, and drive accuracy at scale.
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Sporting Goods
Navigating the unique demands of the sporting goods retail industry requires a distribution strategy that’s both agile and precise. From handling seasonal surges to managing a diverse range of products—from bulky equipment to small accessories—your warehouse operations are the key to a seamless customer experience. Our expertise helps sporting goods retailers streamline their distribution warehouses, improving order accuracy, boosting productivity, and ensuring your team can efficiently move products from the receiving dock to the final customer, no matter the season.
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Footwear
In the fast-paced world of footwear retail requires a distribution strategy that can handle a vast array of styles, sizes, and seasonal trends with precision and speed. From managing a high volume of SKUs to ensuring accurate order fulfillment and returns processing, your distribution center is the engine that drives customer satisfaction and brand loyalty. Our expertise helps footwear retailers streamline their distribution centers, improving inventory management, accelerating order processing, and ensuring your team can efficiently move products from the receiving dock to the final customer, no matter the season.
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Life Science & Healthcare
Pharmaceutical, healthcare, and life science companies face mounting pressure from evolving regulatory requirements, rising fulfillment costs, and intensifying accuracy demands. In this environment, automation isn’t optional—it’s essential. Designed Conveyor Systems (DCS) helps distributors of these critical products stay compliant and competitive.
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Wholesale & Industrial Distribution
Designed Conveyor Systems (DCS) partners with wholesale, industrial, and electronics distributors to design efficient, optimized fulfillment solutions. Every operation DCS designs streamlines end-to-end functional processes—from inbound receiving and putaway to picking, packing, and shipping. Designed Conveyor Systems (DCS) partners with wholesale, industrial, and electronics distributors to design efficient, optimized fulfillment solutions. Every operation DCS designs streamlines end-to-end functional processes—from inbound receiving and putaway to picking, packing, and shipping.
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About Us
Designed Conveyor Systems (DCS) has 40 years of experience serving major clients in multiple industries by providing material handling, full-scale warehouse operations, and conveyor design solutions that are custom crafted for their needs. DCS does not sell ready-made conveyor systems but builds relationships that empower collaboration to craft custom warehouse designs together. DCS utilizes consulting, engineering design, project management, installation services, and client support to ensure our customers can keep their promises to deliver on time.
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With more than 40 years of experience providing automated system design, installation, and integration services, DCS has created solutions for companies throughout the United States in a broad range of industries and markets. We’ve completed more than 1500 projects ranging from greenfield facilities with completely new systems to expansions and retrofits of existing operations.
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Designed Conveyor Systems values building strong relationships with our clients. Join us at our upcoming events to collaborate and discover how we can design a custom warehouse solution tailored to your unique needs.
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Operations Assessment & Optimization Consulting

Turn Operational Challenges Into a Roadmap for Improvement

DCS provides warehouse and distribution center operations with assessment and optimization consulting to help identify inefficiencies, improve productivity, and develop a clear path toward better performance.

The DCS consulting team evaluates your operation from end to end—including processes, people, layout, inventory, equipment, automation, and technology—to understand what is working, where performance is being constrained, and which improvements will have the greatest impact.

The result is more than a list of findings. DCS helps prioritize opportunities into a practical roadmap for improving your operation.

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— What Is a Warehouse Operations Assessment?

A warehouse operations assessment is a comprehensive evaluation of how a warehouse or distribution center currently performs and where opportunities exist to improve efficiency, productivity, throughput, capacity and service.

An assessment examines the full flow of an operation, from receiving and putaway through storage, replenishment, picking, packing, and shipping. It also evaluates the people, technology, equipment, and processes supporting those activities.

DCS’ consultants use operational data, onsite observations, and supply chain expertise to identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and performance gaps. Then, they develop prioritized recommendations for improvement.

Warehouse Operations Assessment & Optimization Services

Every operation has different challenges. The DCS consulting team evaluates the areas that have the greatest impact on your facility’s performance and develops recommendations around your specific operational and business requirements.

Assessment services include:

  • End-to-end warehouse and distribution center assessments
  • Operational process improvement
  • Productivity and cost benchmarking
  • Capacity and throughput analysis
  • Labor and workload planning
  • Engineered labor standards and work measurement
  • Process and value stream mapping
  • Facility layout and space utilization assessment
  • Product slotting and inventory management
  • Material flow and bottleneck analysis
  • Material handling equipment and automation assessment
  • WMS, WCS, WES, LMS, TMS, and other technology assessments
  • Third-party logistics (3PL) service provider identification and evaluation
  • Standard operating procedure (SOP) review
  • Training and development
  • Implementation planning and project management
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Evaluate the Entire Operation

Warehouse performance is rarely affected by one factor alone.

A bottleneck in picking may actually begin with replenishment. Excess travel may be caused by slotting or layout. Labor challenges may point to inefficient processes, underutilized technology, or opportunities for automation.

That’s why DCS’ consultants look at your operation as a connected system.

Depending on the goals of your assessment, the DCS consulting team can evaluate:

  • Inbound scheduling and receiving
  • Putaway
  • Storage and inventory control
  • Replenishment
  • Order processing
  • Picking and order fulfillment
  • Packing and consolidation
  • Quality control and inspection
  • Sortation
  • Shipping
  • Labor and workload planning
  • Facility layout and material flow
  • Material handling equipment and automation
  • Warehouse software and technology
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Identify Bottlenecks & Improve Throughput

When a distribution center is struggling to meet demand, adding more labor or equipment isn’t always the answer.

DCS consultants analyze capacity and throughput by operational function to identify where flow is being constrained and why. This may include evaluating process steps, workloads, travel, handoffs, equipment utilization, and dependencies between different areas of the operation.

From there, the DCS consulting team will identify opportunities to eliminate unnecessary steps, improve flow, balance processes, and increase the productive use of existing resources.

Improve Labor Productivity & Processes

Labor is one of the most significant resources within a distribution operation—and inefficient processes can make labor challenges even more difficult.

DCS evaluates how work is performed and where opportunities exist to simplify, standardize or improve processes.

The objective isn’t simply to ask employees to work faster. It’s to create processes that allow people and systems to work more effectively.

Depending on the operation, this may include:

  • Labor and workload planning
  • Engineered labor standards
  • Work measurement
  • Productivity benchmarking
  • Process mapping
  • Value stream mapping
  • Slotting and travel reduction
  • Standard operating procedures
  • Kaizen or rapid improvement initiatives
  • Training and development
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Get More from Your Existing Facility

Improving warehouse performance doesn’t always require a new building or a major automation investment.

An operations assessment can identify opportunities to increase capacity, improve space utilization, reduce unnecessary movement, or make better use of existing equipment and technology.

DCS’ consultants evaluate the current operation first to determine what can be improved within the existing facility before larger investments are considered.

When changes to layout or facility design are needed, the assessment can also inform a broader distribution center design strategy.

The Operations Assessment Process

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Evaluate Technology & Automation Opportunities

Technology should solve an operational problem—not create another one. As part of an operations assessment, DCS can evaluate how effectively existing material handling equipment, automation, and supply chain technology support the operation. This can include warehouse management systems (WMS), labor management systems (LMS), transportation management systems (TMS), material handling equipment, and automated systems. If gaps are identified, our consultants can help determine whether the best path forward involves improving existing processes or technology, adding new capabilities, or evaluating automation opportunities.

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From Assessment to Optimization

Identifying an opportunity is only the beginning. DCS' consultants can help turn assessment findings into operational improvements through process redesign, implementation planning, project management, and additional consulting support. Some opportunities may involve relatively simple process changes. Others may lead to changes in facility layout, technology, material handling systems, or automation. Because DCS combines supply chain consulting with distribution center design, systems integration, software and lifecycle capabilities, our team can support the operation from initial assessment through implementation when appropriate.

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Prioritize What to Do Now, Next, and Later

Not every improvement needs to happen at once.

At the conclusion of an operations assessment, DCS’ consultants develop findings and recommendations that can be prioritized based on factors such as operational impact, investment, complexity, and business objectives.

Recommendations can be organized into a practical roadmap, helping your team understand:

  • What should be addressed immediately
  • Which improvements should follow
  • What may require longer-term planning or investment
  • How recommended changes relate to broader operational goals
  • Which metrics can be used to measure improvement

This helps turn analysis into action.

When to Conduct a Warehouse Assessment

An operations assessment can be valuable when performance isn’t meeting expectations—or before a major operational decision is made. It establishes a fact-based understanding of current performance before significant changes or investments are made.

Organizations may benefit from an assessment when:

  • Throughput isn't keeping pace with demand
  • Labor costs or overtime are increasing
  • Productivity varies significantly across processes or shifts
  • Orders aren't consistently shipping on time
  • The facility is approaching capacity
  • Inventory accuracy or availability is creating challenges
  • Bottlenecks are affecting material flow
  • Existing automation or technology isn't delivering as expected
  • Customer or service requirements have changed
  • The business is considering automation
  • A new WMS or other technology investment is being evaluated
  • Leadership needs an objective view of current operations
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Operations Assessment & Optimization Consulting FAQs

A warehouse operations assessment evaluates processes, productivity, labor, layout, space utilization, inventory, material flow, equipment, automation, and supply chain technology. The specific scope is based on the challenges and objectives of the operation.

An assessment can identify unnecessary process steps, excessive travel, bottlenecks, workload imbalances, layout constraints, underutilized technology, and other factors that reduce productivity. Recommendations are then developed to address the highest-priority opportunities.

No. An operations assessment can identify opportunities involving people, processes, layout, technology, or equipment. Automation may be evaluated when appropriate, but it is not automatically the recommended solution.

Yes. An assessment can include existing warehouse technology such as WMS, LMS, and TMS platforms, as well as material handling equipment and automation, to determine how effectively those systems support your current business requirements.

Yes. An assessment may identify opportunities to improve the existing operation or reveal capacity, layout or other constraints that require a larger facility strategy. When appropriate, those findings can lead into a distribution center design or network design & optimization engagement.

Yes. DCS can provide implementation planning and project management support following an assessment. When recommendations involve facility design, material handling systems, automation, software, or other DCS capabilities, the appropriate teams can also support subsequent phases of the project.

Build a Better-Performing Operation

You don’t have to guess what’s limiting your warehouse performance.

DCS combines operational data, hands-on supply chain expertise and a comprehensive view of your facility to identify opportunities, prioritize improvements and build a practical roadmap for better performance.