Nothing can slow down the production in a high volume warehouse or distribution center like having to manually break down and maneuver a large shipment. Receiving areas can quickly become backed up when large shipments need to be off loaded and directed to the appropriate areas of the warehouse, especially when employees need to move the material manually.
Unfortunately when an integral part of a distribution operation gets bogged down, it can have a serious effect on virtually all the other departments as well. Picking, packing and shipping departments may have to wait until the receiving crew has finished processing a delivery before they can gain access to the materials that they need to fulfill customer orders. If this happens on a regular basis it can have a negative effect on the relationship between the distribution center and its customers.
These types of problems can usually be minimized by providing warehouse employees access to the appropriate type of equipment for their job. A piece of equipment like the powered truck from DJ Products can help to dramatically speed up the receiving process in a warehouse. The powered truck is powerful enough to allow a single employee to transport heavy loads of product at speeds of up the 3 miles per hour.
Manually pushing fully loaded carts is not only much more time consuming, it can put valuable employees at risk of suffering a wide variety of injuries. The powered truck is easy to operate in both forward and reverse and can be used on a wide variety of fully loaded carts, skids or containers to make maneuvering heavy loads safer and much less stressful.