{"47606":{"#nid":"47606","#data":{"type":"news","title":"SCL Completes Warehousing Project for Walgreens","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe spring class in Warehousing and Distribution at the Georgia Tech Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute (SCL) completed a project for a Walgreens distribution center in Anderson, SC, to help improve order-picking.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team of graduate students visited the facility, picked orders to learn the processes, and then performed detailed computer simulations based on historical records of product flow. They then designed an order-picking protocol and adjustments to the product layout to support the protocol.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more information about SCL\u0027s professional education course offerings, please see: \u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/professional-education\/\u0027\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/professional-education\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"SCL\u0027s spring class in Warehousing and Distribution completed a project for a Walgreens distribution center in Anderson, SC, to help improve order-picking.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"SCL Completes Warehousing Project for Walgreens"}],"uid":"15436","created_gmt":"2009-08-18 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:53","author":"Automator","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-08-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-08-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3843","name":"distribution"},{"id":"7906","name":"order-picking"},{"id":"167077","name":"scl"},{"id":"7907","name":"Walgreens"},{"id":"6140","name":"warehousing"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}