The Children's Place Retail Stores, Inc. Selects Dematic Corp. for its Newest Automated Distribution Facility.Long Relationship and Innovative Products to Help Leading Retailer Increase Capacity and Expand Operations GRAND RAPIDS Grand Rapids, city (1990 pop. 189,126), seat of Kent co., SW central Mich., on the Grand River; inc. 1850. The second largest city in the state, it is a distribution, wholesale, and industrial center for an area that yields fruit, dairy products, farm produce, , Mich. -- Dematic Corp., the worldwide leader in logistics automation Logistics automation is the application of computer software and / or automated machinery to improve the efficiency of logistics operations. Typically this refers to operations within a warehouse or distribution center, with broader tasks undertaken by supply chain management solutions, systems and service, has been selected to provide an automated material handling system for The Children's Place Retail Stores, Inc. The system will be installed in a new 700,000 square foot distribution center in Fort Payne, Alabama Fort Payne is a city in DeKalb County, Alabama, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 12,938. The city is the county seat of DeKalb County. It is home to the band Alabama, and bills itself as the "Official Sock Capital of the World. , slated to go live in the second half of 2007. This new facility includes almost 10 miles of Dematic conveyer, four high rate shoe sorters as well as a 2,600 location pick to light system for order fulfillment Order fulfillment (in BE also: order fulfilment) is in the most general sense the complete process from point of sales inquiry to delivery of a product to the customer. Sometimes Order fulfillment . The Fort Payne distribution center will be the fourth facility where Dematic and The Children's Place have worked together to concept and implement an automated solution to meet their distribution requirements. Their other distribution centers are located in Ontario, California Ontario is a city located in San Bernardino County, California, United States. As of the 2000 Census, the city had a total population of 170,373. It is the home of LA/Ontario International Airport and the huge Ontario Mills shopping mall (the largest in Southern California and one ; Dayton, New Jersey Dayton is a census-designated place and unincorporated area located within South Brunswick Township, in Middlesex County, New Jersey. As of the United States 2000 Census, the CDP population was 6,235. Dayton is also a post office with its own ZIP code (08810). ; and Ontario, Canada. "Dematic's solutions have automated and optimized our existing distribution center network and we are excited to work with them on this new facility," said Mark Rose, Senior Vice President, Chief Supply Chain Officer. "This new distribution center allows us to continue our store expansion initiatives and will support our Company's overall distribution efficiencies." "Dematic is excited to be playing an active part in the growth of The Children's Place," said Rob Bork, Dematic's Vice President of Sales. "A large part of our success lies in the many long-standing relationships we've developed with companies like The Children's Place. Being able to offer innovative supply chain automation solutions that allow these companies to achieve profitable growth is what Dematic is all about. I look forward to continuing our long relationship with them and designing innovative products and solutions to help them grow." About The Children's Place - The Children's Place Retail Stores, Inc. is a leading specialty retailer of children's merchandise. The Company designs, contracts to manufacture and sells high-quality, value-priced merchandise under the proprietary "The Children's Place" and licensed "Disney Store" brand names. As of March 3, 2007, the Company owned and operated 865 The Children's Place stores and 328 Disney Stores in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. and The Children's Place online store at www.childrensplace.com. About Dematic Corp. - Based on a rich tradition of over 70 years of worldwide industry expertise in creating logistics results and more than 10,000 systems installed worldwide, Dematic Corp is the world's leading supplier of logistics automation solutions, systems and service. With a rich history from gravity conveyors to automated, modular conveyor and sortation Identifying objects that are stamped with a bar code and routing them to the appropriate destination. Sortation is typically a high-speed process used in the transportation industry by companies such as Federal Express, UPS and others. See sort and bar code. solutions; and from Rapistan to now Dematic, our full range of engineered and highly configurable product solutions optimize warehousing and distribution operations. With Dematic companies can reduce distribution costs, maximize overall logistics efficiencies, and increase the operating speed of their supply chain. The Dematic headquarters for North America is located in Grand Rapids, Michigan “Grand Rapids” redirects here. For other uses, see Grand Rapids (disambiguation). Grand Rapids is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 197,800. . Dematic is a global company with operations in 22 countries around the world. For more information, visit www.dematic.us. |
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