Bodybuilding.com warehouse pics

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We had an opportunity to tour the bb.com headquarters and warehouse in Boise last week.
Here are just a few shots from the trip
There are about 15-20 people, JUST packing boxes all day. And another dozen or more pulling the orders.
Pretty frikkin slick system they have.
They actually have more supplements than I do!

I must also add, that after this trip, I realize that it is not Ryan's goal that the site just feed the store, it's his goal that the store provide the income to expand and improve the site. A LOT of new and exciting stuff coming up over the next year. Stay tuned.

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[Big_Spaz]

Those are great pictures.


Dang that is a ton of supplements. Looks just like the Warehouse at my work. But instead of stupid literature and brochures, they have supps.





-Spaz

[Brooknamsfinest]

OMG !..... lock me up in there !

[brentjspank]

id love to work there.

[Vietgoboi]

id love to work there.

I agree.

Thank you for upload and inside look of BB.com

[Surive123]

Holy crap.


Yes jealous.


I want a tour!

[jorodigi]

I wonder how much free **** you get if you work there...that has to be awesome. i dont even care, i would pack boxes all day.

[TheBigJames]

a glimpse inside of heaven.

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I agree.

Thank you for upload and inside look of BB.com

I have never met more nice people in one place on any business trip I've ever taken.
The staff of the HQ and warehouse are just great.
Almost every cubicle is stocked with personal supps, and protein powder abounds in the break room.
It's a supp junkies dream.

Plus, all the gals are gorgeous and sweet (mostly taken, sorry) and almost everyone is fit.
unlike the 'ass factory' I work in.

BRB, borrowing Ryans OCC chopper for the weekend shhhhh, don't tell him

[Qtr_79]

Wow

[Brooknamsfinest]

interesting tho, i use to think everything was seperated according to brand.

[TheHybrid]

that's why bb.com's store rules. they almost ALWAYS ship to my house in 24 hours. that's RIDICULOUS.

[admin]

Thanks for posting those pics and thanks for the kind words! It was so great to have you here.

Keep in mind that this is just one of our three warehouses around the country. The other two are actually bigger than the Idaho one!

Ryan

[jcosley]

Holy crap.


Yes jealous.


I want a tour!

Me2!!!! I always wanted to see some pics of there warehouse ...where all the magic happens!

[|ceman]

interesting tho, i use to think everything was seperated according to brand.

There are many reasons why products are not sorted according to brand.

Slotting is a term used to describe the process by which SKUs are designated to specific forward pick locations. Slotting is based on volumetrics (velocity) and in more advanced systems (not sure if BB.com is doing this or not) which SKUs most commonly are paired together to complete the most orders.

The goal of proper slotting is to separate your fast movers from your slow movers and reduce the travel time for the pickers, allowing them to fulfill more orders in less time. Travel time is easily the biggest time factor in completing an order.

I used to be a supply chain engineer/consultant and have visited many distribution centers all over the US. I'd love to pay a visit to one of the Bodybuilding.com centers and see how they do things relative to the facilities that I've done work for in the past.



I live about an hour from the PA facility. HINT HINT, Ryan.

[DedicatedToLift]

But seriously, I would love to work there.....I would probably want to buy the whole warehouse haha.

[Striver]

The goal of proper slotting is to separate your fast movers from your slow movers and reduce the travel time for the pickers, allowing them to fulfill more orders in less time. Travel time is easily the biggest time factor in completing an order.

Something you warehouse guys are hiding from us?

[|ceman]

Something you warehouse guys are hiding from us?

Travel time != time travel.

[harlan100]

Nice stash

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There are many reasons why products are not sorted according to brand.

Slotting is a term used to describe the process by which SKUs are designated to specific forward pick locations. Slotting is based on volumetrics (velocity) and in more advanced systems (not sure if BB.com is doing this or not) which SKUs most commonly are paired together to complete the most orders.

The goal of proper slotting is to separate your fast movers from your slow movers and reduce the travel time for the pickers, allowing them to fulfill more orders in less time. Travel time is easily the biggest time factor in completing an order.

I used to be a supply chain engineer/consultant and have visited many distribution centers all over the US. I'd love to pay a visit to one of the Bodybuilding.com centers and see how they do things relative to the facilities that I've done work for in the past.



I live about an hour from the PA facility. HINT HINT, Ryan.

they do all of the above, including moving the pickers in oppossite directions to avoid them getting in each others way, they also fill 12 at a time, 6 up and 6 back, then the bins go to the packers

the shelves are some of their fast movers
I didn't get a chance to talk FIFO or any of that with them

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they do all of the above, including moving the pickers in oppossite directions to avoid them getting in each others way, they also fill 12 at a time, 6 up and 6 back, then the bins go to the packers

the shelves are some of their fast movers
I didn't get a chance to talk FIFO or any of that with them

I'm guessing from the pics that it's cart based picking, right?

Do they use RF guns to scan the locations and skus or is it all paper based pick sheets?

FIFO is tougher to do with the bin shelving, but with the carton flow rack that they have in some of the pictures, FIFO is super easy as you pick from the front and load from the back. When a carton is emptied in the front, you remove it and break it down and a new carton 'flows' to the front, which you open and start picking from.

[bigrob3737]

my gawd im soooo freggin jealous now

[Alex346]

woow. mmmm making me hungry all them expesive supplements ha ha. thanks for upload

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I'm guessing from the pics that it's cart based picking, right?

Do they use RF guns to scan the locations and skus or is it all paper based pick sheets?

FIFO is tougher to do with the bin shelving, but with the carton flow rack that they have in some of the pictures, FIFO is super easy as you pick from the front and load from the back. When a carton is emptied in the front, you remove it and break it down and a new carton 'flows' to the front, which you open and start picking from.

my fifo question was with the shelf stock, the BIG stuff

it was cart based, looked to be paper pull and scan at packing, that's why your receipt in the box has tick marks on it

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I have never met more nice people in one place on any business trip I've ever taken.
The staff of the HQ and warehouse are just great.
Almost every cubicle is stocked with personal supps, and protein powder abounds in the break room.
It's a supp junkies dream.

Plus, all the gals are gorgeous and sweet (mostly taken, sorry) and almost everyone is fit.
unlike the 'ass factory' I work in.

BRB, borrowing Ryans OCC chopper for the weekend shhhhh, don't tell him

That is awesome, sweet chopper. Yes jealous.

Thanks for the pics.

[|ceman]

my fifo question was with the shelf stock, the BIG stuff

it was cart based, looked to be paper pull and scan at packing, that's why your receipt in the box has tick marks on it

Either the big stuff is slower moving, or they need to look into alternative storage media. Flow rail shelving comes in pallet flow as well, so there really would be no reason to have larger items on the floor unless they were extremely slow moving.

I'd also be interested in learning more about their cart picking process, because at a bare minimum, improvements in accuracy and speed could be achieved by using carts with either fixed or removable storage bins to keep orders segregated during the picking and packing process.

Another question would be if the items on the pick sheet are sorted in travel sequence or some other sort criteria. At a bare minimum this would improve pick performance.


Oh, and the tick marks on the paper ticket could either be the picker confirming the sku and qty picked or it could be the packer confirming the correct order contents. That's why I asked if they use RF for the picking process and then just validate off of the paper ticket at packing/QC.

[dindysport]

good stuff...wondered what it looked like...now there is only the netflix warehouse I wonder about...

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[gregeahh]

Iceman, I'm working right now but as soon as i get off I'll answer some more of those questions for ya if no one else has.