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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.
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.
Why Use 3PL Services?
Why Use 3PL Services?
Logistics concerns like order fulfillment, inventory, and warehousing don’t often get the focus they deserve. These factors are essential to a successful business. You can make the best product in the world, but it won’t mean much if people aren’t able to get their hands on it.
So how do you navigate these important aspects of business? Are you going to learn an entirely new industry in order to support your core business? This can take a lot of time and money, which takes your attention away from the business you’ve built and continue to operate.
This is where third-party logistics (3PL) comes in. These are businesses that provide material handling solutions, as well as order fulfillment and shipping services to help your business continue to grow.
So what do 3PL services offer to expanding businesses?
Allows You To Focus on Your Business
You’re not in the business of material handling solutions. So why would you spend a considerable amount of time trying to find the best methods to optimize your logistics processes? It’s better to leave this to professionals so you can continue doing what you do best.
3PL services allow you to keep doing what you do, while remaining confident your products are going to get where they need to go.
Visit DCS today to learn more about material handling solutions!
Increased Efficiency
You’re going to get better at something the more you do it. That’s how you’ve built a successful business in your industry. And that’s how a solutions provider like DCS has learned to efficiently offer material handling solutions.
Make use of this expertise. Use it to your advantage. There are a variety of areas this efficiency will benefit. Faster order fulfillment means happier customers. Accurate order tracking means less lost packages. And all of this is performed with the authority gained from ample experience.
Avoid High Overhead Costs
DCS offers automated warehouse solutions to help your company reach its goals. This means you can use as much room as you need, but without the necessity of purchasing an entire warehouse. The upfront costs of securing warehousing can drag down a business. However, this is not an issue for those making use of 3PL services.
Avoiding these overhead costs frees you up to invest your capital where you need it most. Many businesses don’t need a full warehouse. 3PL is a great way to get the storage you need without blowing through the savings you need for other considerations.
Adjust to Your Needs
But what if your business continues to expand and your needs change? Material handling solutions can ramp up or slow down operations as much as you need. There are no long-term contracts that need to be fulfilled, so you can use as much or as little help as you like.
This is great for seasonal industries that do a lot of business in one part of the year, and not so much in other months. You can tailor your 3PL services to your business needs.
Improve Customer Satisfaction
Better logistics operations means your orders come out in a timely and accurate manner. Your vendors and customers will notice a difference. This leads to repeat business and the ability to expand. 3PL services streamline every aspect of your operations from shipping to inventory to material handling.
Many customers don’t think about the role these services play in their overall satisfaction after a transaction, but they’ll notice when the process has issues. 3PL helps avoid these issues.
Reduce Risk
There are many things that can go wrong during a shipment or during the material handling process. This is true for every business. Mistakes happen. There are elements that are out of our control. So how do you navigate a situation like a freeway closure due to a snow storm?
It takes an infrastructure of support and expertise to be able to properly handle these situations. This could come in the form of rerouting a truck, scheduling roadside maintenance for a breakdown, or communicating disruption due to weather. A 3PL provider will have the necessary tools to handle these situations so you don’t have to.
Technological Improvements
Technology has entered just about every industry these days. Material handling solutions and the 3PL industry is no different. There are services like ecommerce fulfillment, automated warehousing operations, tracking technology, and labor analytics that can be used to streamline your operations.
Chances are your company isn’t going to have the necessary technology to perform these tasks. There are methods that can be used to make up for the absence of technology, but this is going to cost you efficiency and money.