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.

Learn More

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.

Learn More

Inventory Management within Warehouse Operations

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.

Learn More

Woman with salesperson at the counter of sports shop

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.

Learn More

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.

Learn More

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.

Learn More

Services Consulting

Services

Warehouse & Supply Chain Operations Consulting

DCS provides warehouse consulting and supply chain consulting to help organizations improve distribution operations, plan and design facilities, optimize supply chain networks, evaluate automation and technology, and prepare for future growth.

Our warehouse consultants combine operational data, industry expertise and real-world implementation experience to develop practical strategies for distribution centers and fulfillment operations. From warehouse operations consulting and distribution center design to network optimization, automation strategy and warehouse technology, DCS helps organizations move from analysis to actionable recommendations.

Two Warehouse Consultants prepared to improve warehouse automation processes and efficiency.

DCS Consulting Services

Data-Driven Insights & Strategic Recommendations to Keep Your Operations Moving

Supply Chain Strategy & Optimization

Develop future-state strategies and prioritized roadmaps that align distribution operations with business goals.

Network Design & Optimization

Evaluate facility locations, capacity, inventory positioning and distribution network structure.

Distribution Center Design

Design new facilities, expansions and retrofits around operational requirements, material flow and future growth.

Operations Assessment & Optimization

Assess processes, labor, layout, inventory, technology and equipment to identify and prioritize operational improvements.

Warehouse Automation Consulting

Determine where automation makes sense for your operation. DCS evaluates processes, labor, throughput, technology options and ROI to develop an automation strategy aligned with your goals.

Technology & Software Consulting

Assess WMS, WES, WCS and other warehouse software to identify gaps and align technology with operational needs.

Simulation & Analysis

Model processes, material flow, throughput and system performance to validate concepts before implementation.

Operations Assessments

Engaging the DCS Supply Chain Consulting Team to perform an end-to-end operations assessment includes a comprehensive evaluation of your current processes, equipment, software, systems, layout, personnel, inventory mix, handling practices, and more to identify opportunities for improvement. By working with DCS’s warehouse consulting services, you’ll get an independent, unbiased brand agnostic consultant who makes recommendations for process changes and solution types- but not specific equipment. Recommendations are prioritized in a sequence, serving as a type of roadmap to improvement, as well as metrics for quantifying the results. To learn more about operations assessments and how they can benefit your organization, read this blog.

Learn More

Process Improvement

DCS’s custom engineered material handling systems and warehouse automation solutions deliver improved productivity and efficiency. However, there are also other approaches that can be applied to help operations without the lead time or investment associated with automated systems. To that end, DCS’s warehouse consulting services offer process improvement services to help analyze and streamline existing operations. In addition to helping establish organization-wide metrics, labor planning, and work standards, DCS consultants apply the LEAN methodology to help your operation determine which steps in a physical workflow process add value and which do not. They can also help you quantify the improvements to demonstrate the value of your increased efficiency. To learn more about how to gain efficiency and productivity through process improvement, read this blog.

Learn More

Warehouse consultants compiling suggestions for improved efficiency.

Distribution Center Design

When your operations outgrow its current warehouse or distribution center (DC) and the time has come to expand your existing footprint, relocate into a new location, or add another facility to your network, DCS’s Supply Chain Consulting team is here to help. Through a customized assessment of your current operations- including detailed analysis of data, processes, inventory, and workflows- DCS consultants work with you to develop the optimal solution. Together, you’ll evaluate and assess potential designs, warehouse automation systems, and material handling solutions engineered to meet your storage, handling, distribution, and fulfillment needs. To learn more about key considerations when planning a new DC, read this blog.

Learn More

Distribution center design being updated by consultants.

Conveyor systems included in an optimized distribution center

The Process

Our team will perform a detailed analysis of your operational processes including:

Current distribution center operational processes
DC efficiency and effectiveness
Supply chain IT execution systems (WMS, LMS, TMS) and the ability to support business requirements, growth, and best practices
DC capacity and space utilization
DC staffing
Quality and process improvement programs (LEAN, Six Sigma)
Supply Chain Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
Assessment of the implementation of industry leading practices
Distribution center Material Handling Equipment (MHE) and automation assessment

The Output

Our team will identify and highlight areas where there is an opportunity and submit our findings for your review. As a part of our warehouse consulting services we will also assist in the development and execution of an action plan that fits your organization.

We will develop a detailed summary report of Findings and Recommendations identifying:

Prioritized list of process improvement opportunities
Recommendations to improve top issues
Supply Chain IT execution systems gap assessment
Executive summary report containing a summary of top process improvement opportunities and recommendations
High level project plan of the short/medium/long term recommendations

At the conclusion of the Warehouse Assessment project, DCS is ready to assist you with implementing the findings identified throughout the course of the assessment.

DCS’ approach to supply chain consulting services follows the same philosophy as its system integration solutions: all DCS consulting engagements are independent and brand-agnostic. That means our consultants analyze your operations and recommend process changes and solution types—not specific equipment brands. Some material handling vendors offer “free” assessments hoping to sell you their products. A DCS consultant provides unbiased recommendations focused entirely on what’s right for your operation and your budget.

Not at all. Process improvement is one of the most valuable insights consulting can offer, and it doesn’t require any capital investment in automation. DCS consultants apply a LEAN methodology to identify which steps in your workflow add value and which don’t. Eliminating even a handful of non-value-added steps can yield meaningful productivity gains. For example, removing 5 steps from a 20-step process immediately represents a 25% improvement in efficiency.

Network optimization and distribution center design consulting are typically the right fit when your current facility is no longer adequate. This could mean you’ve outgrown your footprint, are relocating, or are adding a new location to your network. DCS consultants perform a detailed analysis of your current operations, including data, processes, inventory, and workflows. Your consultant then works with you to develop and evaluate potential facility designs, automation systems, and material handling solutions that meet your storage, handling, and fulfillment needs.

DCS works with operations across a wide range of industries, including e-commerce and multi-channel retail, life science and healthcare distribution, home improvement, sporting goods, footwear, pet food, wholesale, and industrial distribution. With more than 40 years of experience and over 1,500 completed projects, DCS brings proven expertise to both greenfield facility design and retrofits or expansions of existing operations.

Most distribution center designs fall into one of three categories: manual/conventional, semi-automated, or fully automated. The right choice depends on factors including budget, labor availability and cost, throughput requirements, and long-term growth plans. DCS consultants help operations evaluate all three options, along with your respective projected ROI and short-, mid-, and long-term implications, to identify the solution that best fits your organization’s goals. For more complex semi-automated or fully automated designs, DCS can also run simulations to validate the design against different inventory and throughput scenarios before committing to a solution.

Consulting is often the first step in a longer relationship with DCS. Once an assessment identifies the right path forward, we are positioned to help implement our recommendations through its system design and integration services. With nearly 45 years of experience and more than 1,500 completed projects, DCS brings engineering, project management, installation, and ongoing customer support capabilities that allow clients to move from strategy to execution without changing partners. The consulting engagement ensures that any subsequent investment in automation or material handling is grounded in real operational data rather than assumptions.