After successfully expanding throughout its home state of Florida in the 1990s, Discount Auto Parts (DAP) which merged late last year with Advance Auto Parts, began putting down roots in neighboring southeastern states. And before long it became obvious that a single distribution center in Lakeland, Fla., couldn't go it alone supplying more than 600 stores that made up the DAP retail network. That's when a new distribution center was built in Gallman, Miss. Within months, the new center had begun to lap overburdened Lakeland. Central to the DC's effectiveness is a unique system that combines a pallet carousel, gantry unit and stretch-wrapper that together build pallets of case pick. The system is more than 500% more efficient than the case picking methods at Lakeland - 1,000 picks an hour compared to just 170.
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机译：在1990年代成功地在其本州佛罗里达州扩张后，去年年底与Advance Auto Parts合并的Discount Auto Parts（DAP）开始在邻近的东南州扎根。不久之后，显而易见的是，佛罗里达州莱克兰市的一个配送中心无法独自为DAP零售网络提供600多家商店。那是在密西西比州加尔曼（Galman）建造新的配送中心的时候，几个月之内，新的配送中心就开始为负担沉重的莱克兰（Lakeland）忙碌了。 DC效率的中心是一个独特的系统，该系统结合了托盘转盘，龙门单元和拉伸包装机，一起构成了箱子拣选托盘。该系统的效率比莱克兰的案例分拣方法高出500％-每小时只有1,000次分拣，而每小时只有170次。
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