VIDEO SHOWCASE: Inside Orgill's big, new DC
Orgill's newest distribution center is up and running in Tifton, Georgia.
“We are taking advantage of every opportunity to build technology and new distribution techniques into this facility that will help us create efficiencies for both our team and our customers,” said Randy Williams, Orgill’s executive vice president of distribution. “The investments we are making in this facility will ultimately help us get products to our customers more efficiently.”
New to the Orgill DC in Tifton is the Geek+ Shelf-to-Person PopPick System. (Watch video above for demonstration.)
It’s described as a system that uses low-to-the-ground, disc-like P series robots to move tall stacks of shelves and pallets to a picking station. In the system, robots bring totes to the picking station and the picker selects the product according to a screen prompt.
The system is designed to be more accurate and more efficient than manual picking, while eliminating redundant back-and-forth walking down long aisles.
The facility, which replaces an older Tifton, Georgia DC, brings 25 % more space —expanding from 650,000 sq. ft. to 800,000 sq. ft. And the distributor is making more efficient use ofthe space.
In addition to the new construction in Tifton, over the past two years, Orgill added 1.3 million square feet of warehouse space when it opened its new Rome, New York, distribution center in 2021 and expanded its Hurricane, Utah, distribution center in 2022.
Orgill now operates eight distribution centers in North America with 6.7 million square feet of capacity and more than 75,000 SKUs in each distribution center.
