DCS’s design and engineering team has more than 40 years of experience creating unique package and 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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pet Food
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Projects
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.
Upcoming Events
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.
Package Handling
Package & Parcel Handling Systems
Package Handling Systems that think outside the box
With the rise of e-commerce and the corresponding increase in direct-to-consumer shipments to fill orders of one or two items at a time, having the optimal parcel handling system design for an operation is critical to meeting customers’ expectations.
Today’s parcel handling systems can be created for major third-party carriers, large retailers’ middle-mile sortation centers, or last-mile delivery hubs. They must incorporate a tightly synchronized collection of automated material handling equipment and technologies that optimize conveyance and sortation of a broad range of parcel sizes, weights, shapes, and packaging materials. And they need to deliver accuracy, speed, precision, and flexibility- whether the parcels are cardboard cartons, slippery polybags, padded mailers, or envelopes.
Custom Package Handling Solutions
Prior to creating a new parcel handling system design, DCS engineers work with a customer to gain insight into the speed and throughput requirements of the system, as well as the types of packages to be handled. As part of DCS’s design consulting service, multiple solution proposals may be generated to help facility operators select the custom material handling system solution option that best achieves their goals.
Upon concept approval, DCS will design and build the custom solution using sourced from a variety of leading manufacturers. To ensure maximum reliability and uptime, DCS specifies optimal systems and components- including material handling equipment, conveyor systems, and sortation technologies- that are best suited to the application.
Further, every DCS parcel handling system is backed by 24/7 customer support.
Parcel Solutions
The definition of “parcel” is changing, and you need innovative concepts that wouldn’t have been considered in the past. Flexible conveyor systems designed for parcel distribution handle inconsistent shapes and sizes, increasing the speed and accuracy of a well-designed warehouse. Our design team generates creative conveyor solutions that reduce your cost, increase capacity, and give you the ability to handle unique package sizes.
- Bulk Flow Conveyor
- Transportation Conveyor
- Flow Splitters
- Pneumatic Diverts
- Cross Belt Sorters
- Push-Tray Sorters
- Tilt-Tray Sorters
- Narrow Belt Sorters
- Sliding Shoe Sorters
Additional Solutions
In addition to solutions specifically for parcel, DCS offers custom material handling solutions for other packaging needs as well. Contact us to determine the needs of your material handling processes.
- Controls, Software, and Hardware
- Manual, Semi-Automated, or Fully Automated Induction
- Scanners
- Cameras
- In-line Scales
- Dimensioners
- Six-sided Vision Tunnels
- Singulators
- Robotics
Package Handling FAQs
The cost of implementing automation at your packaging and fulfillment company can vary widely based on what technologies you choose. DCS has observed that ROI typically comes within 1-2 years, and sometimes as quickly as 12 months.
There are many automation solutions available to packaging and fulfillment centers. DCS’s packaging and fulfillment clients see great success with automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS) to receive and store product, autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) to retrieve items, conveyor systems to move product between stations, and palletizing robots to stack finished goods.
DATUM, DCS’s proprietary warehouse execution system (WES), integrates seamlessly with your company’s legacy software, hardware, and automation systems, including commercial and custom WMS software. DATUM incorporates a flexible, secure API gateway and integration bridge, as well as multi-agent orchestration features to create a unified mix of people and automation. This transforms different systems and workflows into a coordinated, intelligent operation capable of delivering predictive throughput.
DCS can create a scalable, adaptable, and modernized automation plan for your packaging and fulfillment operation. On the digital side, DCS can deploy a platform to manage diverse and evolving inventory profiles. On the physical side, we can design flexible conveyance solutions, storage methods, and handling processes that accommodate a broad range of product sizes, packaging types, and throughput volumes. Cloud-based software, flexible automated solutions such as autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), and dense storage solutions that maximize the cube of your warehouse are available to help you increase capacity without expanding your facility’s current footprint.
Packaging and fulfillment center workers can achieve basic automation equipment proficiency within one week. The knowledge base for managers is more expansive, so training typically takes several weeks. DCS offers both levels of system training with new installations, as well as refresher and advanced training through our ASURE MRO (maintenance, repair, and operations) program.