Warehouse Consulting & Design
Our Engineered Solutions team will look at the whole picture of your material handling operation to assess your current state and what it will take to reach your dream scenarios.
Then, we’ll outline what a modular, phased roadmap looks like to get there. We design and deliver integrated plans that incorporate the best options from our vendor partners and custom, adaptable systems that help your business grow safely and efficiently.
Our role is to help you achieve your goals with your space and budget, whether you’re optimizing an existing building or designing a new facility from the ground up. We also partner with you through each phase of implementation to ensure seamless adoption and ROI — we’re in it for the long haul and committed to your success.
Your Automation Journey
How automation plays into the optimization of your warehouse varies depending on the needs of your business — and it’s one that’s best approached in phased steps.
Our job is to help you get there in practical stages: fixing what hurts now, proving changes in one area, then scaling what works across your operation. Here’s how we approach meeting you where you are and guiding you at a pace that matches your business case.
Start with the Essentials
Efficiency and revenue are often first lost at your foundational loading, storage, and material handling points, such as your docks, doors, racking, and storage areas.
We start by addressing planned maintenance or replacements for those key warehouse elements, so your building can support higher density and throughput without chaos. These plug-and-play changes deliver fast ROI through better uptime, safer operations, and cleaner product flow.
Prove Assisted or Semi-Automation in One Zone
Once your groundwork is solid, we help you prove automation where it matters most – usually in a single area such as sortation, picking, or shipping. Solutions may include batch picking software or hardware, automated palletizing/depalletizing, automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS), person-to-goods or goods-to-person systems, robotic sortation, drone inventory, end-of-line automation, and more.
The goal here is to target specific issues like labor constraints, error rates, or peak bottlenecks, and show measurable improvements before building out your automation further.
Scale Automation with Confidence
With proven wins in hand, we help you expand automation in a way that stays flexible for future change. Depending on your needs, that could mean moving to advanced ASRS and goods-to-robot systems.
Throughout, we focus on de-risking your investment: modeling ROI, stress-testing assumptions, and planning for growth so today’s decisions don’t paint you into a corner tomorrow.
Layer in Added Visibility and Safety
Alongside warehouse automation, our Burwell Connect & Protect offerings give you better insight into fleet usage and operator behavior, as well as prevent incidents. That means you’re not just moving product faster — you’re doing it with better control, compliance, and safety baked in.
Integrated Systems
Our Engineered Solutions team acts as your systems integrator, bringing hardware, software, and safety solutions into one end-to-end workflow.
Because we’re part of a full-service material handling organization, we understand the complete lifecycle of your warehouse, from design and installation to long-term support and future expansion, and work to seamlessly and comprehensively tie those elements together.
Ready to see what’s possible in your warehouse?
Whether you’re just starting to think about structural upgrades or you’re evaluating a major automation project, our team is ready to help.
Next step: Schedule a consultation or warehouse assessment, and let’s talk about your path forward.