Joes Sports & Outdoor will break ground this fall on a 127,000 sq. ft. expansion of their distribution center in Wilsonville, Oregon. The project will provide additional capacity as the company moves forward with an aggressive schedule of new store openings.
Dave Fouts, Vice President of Planning and Logistics for Joes Sports & Outdoor, notes that the project is vital to the companys continued growth. “Were now up to thirty stores we opened four new stores in 2007 alone and each adds exponentially to our requirements at the DC. This much-needed new capacity allows us serve the new stores well be opening in the years ahead.”
The distribution center was built in 1979 to serve what was then a five-store chain. It was expanded by 50,000 sq. ft. in 1986.
Fouts went on to say, “The project will also create greater efficiencies in allocation flow-through and picking flow-through. The north end of the new addition will feature twenty-five new dock bays dedicated solely to outbound product, while the existing southwest side dock doors will be fully dedicated to incoming product. This will nearly eliminate the need to stage allocated product inside the DC.”
