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DRI's Attention to Detail |
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2009.11.21 06:41:18 |
Distribution Resource’s business is almost entirely based on the apparel industry. Its customers manufacture and distribute clothes ranging from high end to items you’d find in any shopping mall. Handling garments requires open-box picking and a variety of value added services including hanging, folding, applying and/or removing price tags and packaging.
DRI has handled product flowing through Seattle for more than twenty years. Prusi said the company’s attention to detail is the reason they’ve been successful. “We take on projects most other warehouses won’t do. They are high touch projects where we’re open-case picking and providing value-add services like tagging and packaging. You have to really know what you’re doing to make money with these projects,” he said.
Order picking and value added services can account for as much as 60% of a project’s operating costs. Generating profit from these type of projects is difficult says DRI owner Paul Prusi. “You have to know a lot about the project and what the customer wants to achieve. What type of product is it? How many transactions are we doing? What’s level of quality is needed? The planning and setup is critical,” said Prusi.
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