In the high-octane world of auto parts distribution, precision matters. Consider: You’re not just shipping components; you’re delivering the vital parts that keep our country moving. That’s where Yale forklifts step in – to help you deliver on the demands of your customers.
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Challenges & Solutions
As automobile prices continue to rise, auto parts distributors are striving to reduce costs to drive larger margins. Specialized equipment is needed to maintain the warehouse and reduce the total cost of ownership.
Promote supply chain productivity
Make the most out of scarce resources with simplified battery maintenance, charging and replacement processes to help increase uptime and productivity.
- Eliminate battery maintenance downtime
- Opportunity charge and reach up to 8 hours of continuous runtime
- Fully charge in 1-2 hours, no cool down needed
- Providing consistent power throughout discharge cycle
- Improve operator ergonomic seat position and comfort with increased head and leg room
Take fleet visibility to the next level
Streamline your entire fleet by accessing forklift fleet data through an easy-to-use portal or in consultative quarterly business reviews.
- Equipment utilization – analyze fleet size, age and costs, so replacements can be considered as needed
- Identify and address locations with high maintenance spends and repairs
- Monitor and provide insights to help reduce truck and product damage
- First-time fix metrics – recognize trends and potential future failures or issues by tracking repair history to calculate average number of days to repair
- Planned maintenance (PM) and avoidable damage spend – intervals between failures to match individual lift truck usage levels
In an ever-changing competitive market, the automotive part distributors must utilize forklifts that streamline serviceability to reduce downtime, enhance operator confidence, eliminate battery maintenance, and lower total cost of ownership.
Optimize labor resources
Don’t let labor shortages hold your operations hostage. Gain independence and reduce the risk of mishaps and maintenance costs from inexperienced operators.
- Improve retention by promoting skilled labor to more engaging roles
- Enhance picking accuracy and transport efficiency
- Reduce unnecessary product/facility damage
- Limit product touches and human error
- Provide greater obstacle and pedestrian detection
Secure 20/20 vision
Gain full fleet visibility with Yale Vision to promote proper operating behavior and enable management to understand issues and implement smart solutions. Our monitoring system tracks use by operator so you can assess who is triggering avoidable damage and could use extra operator training.
- Receive usage metrics, impact detection and alerts
- Restrict truck access to approved operators only
- Enforce OSHA pre-shift checklist completion
- Increase operator accountability with impact camera option
As the automotive industry introduces new parts each year, retail distributors grapple with space limitations. Consumer demand for fresh options drives an increase in SKU counts, putting pressure on operations to allocate additional warehouse space—a significant capital expense. The solution lies in repurposing underutilized areas to optimize storage efficiency.
Maximize Capacity
Get the stability and operator confidence you need to access higher storage locations and take advantage of unused cubic space with the Yale® very narrow aisle turret truck.
- Operate in aisles as narrow as 56” and pick up to 622” high (52’)
- Minimize sway at height and increase operator confidence with rigid mast
- Achieve optimum through-the-mast visibility
- Take quick action if truck needs lowered using exclusive Emergency Lowering with Fork Traverse
- Automatically steer along desired path with wire guidance option
Achieve greater slotting capacity with the Yale® multi-level order picker
- Use variable height picking processes to increase SKU capacity to help increase pick positions up to 400%, and slot capacity 140% within same footprint
- Place slower-moving SKUs above faster-moving ones for efficient access to frequently picked items
- Add case flow lanes to pick lines to accommodate more SKUs
Same-day delivery is becoming an expectation. To beat the competition and keep costs down, speed and agility are imperative.
Transport and deliver with ease
Whether moving around a warehouse, in a trailer or at a retail location, drive new levels of efficiency with the Yale® walkie – a compact electric pallet jack perfect for retail and e-commerce fulfillment.
- Maneuver confidently and efficiently with truck’s small footprint
- Optimize visibility with shorter, mid-mounted handle that brings the operator closer to the truck
- Reduce cycle times up to 25% with Smart Lift, enabling operators to travel before unit is at full lift
- Simplify transport from the trailer to the store using the Direct Store Delivery (DSD) package with lithium-ion power and exclusive handle design
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