Merrimack Valley Distributors

Massachusetts based wholesale beer and beverage distributor.

Business Overview

Merrimack Valley Distributors, headquartered in Danvers Massachusetts is a leading distributor of Miller/Coors, Corona and Heineken products along with a broad selection of import brands, microbrews, craft beers and several non-alcohol beverages and waters.

Merrimack Distributes over 3.5 million cases annually consisting of over 2000 SKU's.

Operating from a 100,000 sq. ft. distribution facility with cold storage Merrimack processes customer orders across 18 routes daily.

Business Objectives

Improve operational performance for inbound, outbound and inventory control.

Establish real time management visibility to operational metrics.

Increase picking accuracy and quality control capabilities.

Improve capacity planning and facility layout.

Solutions

Warehouse Director WMS

Load Director

Voice Director

Results

Increase Case pick rate by 44% upon deployment of layout recommendations, automatic pallet and load design and voice directed picking reducing labor costs and overtime by 40%.

Increased outbound order accuracy by 300% in the first two months of operation.

Reduced new hire training time from months to hours in layer and case picking operations.