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Gross & Associates - Consultants in Material Handling Logistics

By Todd Richter on Jan 3, 2008 in Featured

Gross & Associates is the leading material handling consulting firm in the industry, with over 40 years of experience designing operations for warehousing, distribution, and manufacturing facilities. Our services include operations design layouts for new and existing distribution centers, location network modeling, simulation modeling, SKU slotting, equipment specifications, and implementation management. We have a long history of successful projects focused upon three specific goals:

  • Improve Customer Service
  • Increase Productivity
  • Reduce Operational Costs

As management consultants with extensive experience across all industries – from apparel to health care to retail to heavy industries – we are uniquely positioned to provide solutions to your operational needs that internal resources may not have encountered. We have been commissioned to write over a dozen books related to the material handling industry and are regularly quoted in trade magazines as industry experts.

Gross and Associates’ mission is to understand the strategic and tactical business requirements of our clients and engineer timely and intelligent solutions to promote long term competitive business viability and profitability. Over half of our projects come from current and former clients who engage us for additional work.

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