Description
Helly Hansen is a Norwegian company providing high quality, protective technical gear for work, survival and sport.

Opportunities
Due to historic business growth the existing USA warehouse in Auburn (WA) faced it’s boundaries. Helly Hansen asked Groenewout to come up with a footprint for a new warehouse that was able to deal with the future growth expectations.

Solution
In the first discussions, it became clear that the business development plan included sales growth in combination with a reduction of SKU’s and an improvement of stock turns for the coming 2 years. First opportunities were identified to increase the capacity of the current site. Based on the calculation of the new maximum storage capacity it was concluded that the current facility was sufficient and, there is no need to move. In parallel the footprint and conceptual lay-out for a potential new warehouse were developed, defining the optimal logistics concept in case business growth exceeds expectations.

Benefits

• New insight in opportunities of current building
• Quantification of required capacity for the coming years
• Saving out costs & efforts and avoiding the risks of a transfer to a new warehouse.