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The Atlanta DC’s inside and outside sales personnel and
office staff manage product inventory and orders during standard
business hours, while truck drivers make deliveries around the
clock—to independent dealers by day, and to Home Depot
stores at night. According to Warford, such service is possible
because of careful attention to detail, on all fronts.
"It’s always an advantage when you can design and
build a facility from the ground up for a specific purpose,"
comments Warford, who designed the DC facility himself. "With
our truck-height unloading docks and bay dock, we are able to
receive containers straight from the port and eliminate unload/reload
functions typically necessary with flatbeds. This keeps product
and package handling to a minimum.
He says his competitors in the distribution business typically
try to sell many different products, all bought from outside
sources. "One of the differences between us and them,"
Warford says, "is that we manufacture the majority of the
products we distribute and we focus on fewer items, handling
them extremely well. This results in better quality controls
and pricing."
The DC’s carefully selected location is another distinct
advantage. Strategically situated 40 miles north of Atlanta
in Ball Ground, Ga., the facility is within two hundred yards
of Atlanta artery U.S. 575, and just north of the proposed Atlanta
beltline highway. The DC is also within minutes of a private
airport, making customer tours of Glen Oak’s Southeastern
manufacturing and distribution facilities, via its corporate
aircraft, expeditious and hassle-free.
As is common with Glen Oak’s other facilities, visitors
to the new Southeast distribution center are clearly impressed.
Clean, bright, spacious and well organized, the facility is
more than just a warehouse. Its lobby and offices are showrooms
of Glen Oak product installations. High ceilings, large stacked
mouldings and 6-panel doors belie the building’s hard working
industrial nature.
Warford trusts that his Atlanta team’s hard work and attention
to detail will pay off. And, as Glen Oak’s southeast distribution
business grows, so, too, can the facility. There is already
room planned for an adjacent 12,000 square-foot expansion to
house more inventory, when the need arises.
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