Packaging Center
On January 2, 2008, Anderson Seal, Inc. expanded its operations and purchased a designated building to solely focus on its packaging/assembly niche. The new building is 30,000 square feet, and has over 30 employees dedicated to exceeding our customers’ expectations for their after-market needs.
Anderson Seal’s customer needs are affected by weather, economy, part life cycles and model year changes, so we’ve designed our Packaging Center to specifically address this high degree of variability and seasonality.
The Packaging Center provides a pull system for our customers where we ship inventory based on actual needs vs. forecast. Our customers communicate their needs and can expect shipment of any of the more than 2500 part numbers no later than the following working day. We work with annual blanket orders that allow us to purchase all of the necessary kit components at the best value. We inspect all components, inventory a minimum safety stock, assemble the kits, and then ship per our customers’ daily requirements. We continually exceed customer quality requirements year after year.
Customer Benefits:
- Increase Fill Rates
- Reduction of Back Orders
- Reduction of Inventory
- Increase of Inventory Turns (they see 50+ inventory turns/year)
- Increased Capacity
- Decreased Time on Planning, Ordering, Expediting
- Incoming Inspection Elimination
Anderson Seal, Inc. continually reviews and refines our process to continue to give the customer value.
- We have set up our new warehouse using Lean Concepts.
- Raw material is inventoried at the work centers reducing set-up and eliminating waste.
- The entire plant is designed for the most efficient flow of material from Receiving to Shipping.
- We have set up JIT programs with our suppliers to allow us to turn inventory and keep a constant supply of product.
- Out entire warehouse is bar-coded, allowing for identification and reducing human error.
- Each job has a written work instruction (SWI) including multiple languages and pictures of each step. Documentation and traceability are standards that allow tracking and root cause identification.