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CHALLENGE SOLUTION

CLIENT

New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc.

Lawrence, Massachusetts

New Balance is a leading athletic apparel and footwear manufacturer specializing in high quality exercise shoes offered in widths. They distribute their goods to athletic shoe and sporting good stores across the United States.

CHALLENGE

Projected continued high growth necessitated the creation of a new facility that would provide New Balance customers with a higher level of service and facilitate the processing of shoe and apparel unit forecast projections through year 2001 and beyond.

SOLUTION

Mantissa was chosen to install and implement the Mantissa® Scorpion Tilt-tray Sorter using the “cross sort” chute design concept. This is a unique way to optimize space and increase the number of sort positions without increasing the size of the sorter. Product is sorted to direct flow chutes located on both the inside and outside of the tilt-tray sorter. These chutes are constructed such that shoeboxes descend with a horizontal orientation allowing multiple shoeboxes to queue along the length of the chute to the end stop. Additionally, Mantissa has incorporated into the system a light-directed “Case Complete” signal, which indicates that an order is complete in the chute and that the case is ready to be packed by an operator. In order to accommodate different induction and sortation elevations, Mantissa provided a bi-planar system. By automating their packing system, New Balance has increased their throughput, consolidated their distribution operations and raised the standard of responsiveness to customers cost-effectively and efficiently.

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