Company:

Oatey is a market-leading manufacturer of commercial and residential plumbing products, known for its quality and ISO 9001-certified.

Situation:

Oatey had thousands of pallets of retail products that needed to be sorted and repackaged.

Solution:

Demonstrating its flexibility, SAW developed a customized solution for this project that consisted of numerous pallets of product. The amount exceeded the capacity of a SAW production facility. SAW contracted with a warehouse company for the additional space necessary to handle the project and put together a team of 20 employees and two supervisors to work at the warehouse. After sorting product at the warehouse, pallets were distributed to five SAW production facilities for repackaging which employed 100 SAW workers.

Success:

The productivity of the sorting team required Oatey and SAW to expand the project to seven production facilities with over 150 employees working on the expanded project.