Corporate Express will be consolidating warehouse operations from two northern New Jersey locations into the Harmon Cove building, said Timothy J. Beauchamp, its vice president of distribution.
The tendency toward numerous distribution facilities runs contrary to a strategy that was common just after the recession, when some companies sought efficiency by consolidating warehouse operations, according to Bob Martie, executive vice president for the New Jersey region at Colliers International, a real estate service provider.
Past acquisitions have allowed the group to consolidate warehousing operations at Shaw in Greater Manchester, which has become one of Europe's largest retail distribution centres.
Consolidating warehousing and shipping activities shaved six percentage points off Seabury's overhead.
Thomas Boegli is a Swiss logistics expert with the International Committee for the Red Cross in Geneva who recently completed a tour in Monrovia where he consolidated Red Cross warehouses.
Lantis will consolidate its warehouse, distribution and administrative functions, which are now in three different locations in Bergen and Hudson Counties.
Cuti even tackled the distribution nightmare, consolidating four warehouses in three states into one 500,000-square-foot warehouse in Queens, N.Y.
The move also enabled Philadelphia-based Vishay to save on overhead by consolidating four warehouses in Europe and the U.S. into the one FedEx warehouse in Subic.
Consolidating eight warehouses and shop store rooms into one central location was a "huge undertaking" for Online Carpets, but, now the move has been made, director and co-owner Richard Wilson couldn't imagine going back.
Jacques Vert, whose brands include Windsmoor and Planet, also highlighted higher than expected one-off costs associated with consolidating its warehouses into a single site, with profits for the year to the end of April now expected to be "below expectations".
