Elevating Simon & Schuster’s Warehouse Management System Performance
Solving Labor Peaks With a Flexible, Unified WMS
By the Numbers
Increased Fulfillment Productivity
10
Variable labor productivity rose more than 10%, freeing time for other tasks and improving overall warehouse efficiency daily.
Decreased Cost of Labor
20
Overtime decreased by more than 20%, reducing labor costs and supporting consistent service during high‑volume periods across warehouses.
Driving Lean Shipping Cartonization
19
Carton usage fell about 10% through accurate cartonization, cutting dunnage about 20% and reducing packaging waste and cost.
“The flexibility we have to tweak things in Warehouse Management to gain additional efficiencies— whether it’s a pick path or how the system allocates—is a benefit in itself so we don’t need to rely on outside resources. The system provides the flexibility to change things without the need to touch the code and it’s real-time so we can test it in-house and immediately see the results.”
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