![]() “We have to have continuous, steady power.” Stepping up for power Lauer is grateful that a reliable flow of electricity will not be an additional worry. The project team had to navigate both a polar vortex weather event and the COVID pandemic during construction. ![]() (Minnkota/Michael Hoeft)īut this path to “Christmas morning” didn’t come without its challenges. ![]() The new 2.2 million-square-foot Digi-Key expansion has a base floor large enough to fit 22 football fields. The transition will take about nine months, at which time employees will reap the full gifts of a more efficient, more ergonomic, smarter Product Distribution Center. Digi-Key is nearly finished with the software-testing phase of the enterprise, and will then start to migrate 1.7 million parts from the original building to the new space. The systems will work together to process and ship the company’s 27,000 orders a day – up from 11,000 when Lauer was hired 16 years ago. But the new system, just from a user experience for our team, is going to be much better.”ĭigi-Key’s expansion houses a new best-in-class warehouse management system and OSR (order storage and retrieval system). We know its capabilities – and it’s very capable – and we’ve taken it well past its design capabilities. “Feeling kind of like a kid at Christmas,” Lauer laughed. It’s been a long journey since ground was broken on the expansion in 2017, but Digi-Key Vice President of Order Fulfillment Chris Lauer is giddy to finally see packages rolling down the line in the near future. (Minnkota/Michael Hoeft)ĭigi-Key has distribution down to a science, and the new PDCe will streamline its mission of the same-day shipping of batteries, computer parts and other electronics components to homes and businesses around the world. Mark Schmitke, Digi-Key manager of community relations, describes one of the several picking and packing processes that will take place in the facility expansion.
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