Kelly Box Deploys Top Gun Inventory Management System

At Kelly Box we consider our plant and extension of your plant. By integrating our order management systems directly into our ERP software we continue to push the envelope on reducing and managing inventories and tightening delivery and turn-around times. 

We recently implemented the Top Gun inventory management system to increase our real-time awareness of inventory. This system is mounted on all forklifts and provides drivers with real time information about the location, status, count and position of finished goods inventory throughout our multiple warehouses. This will reduce the time to locate load and deliver customer products and save time and money that will help us maintain a competitive advantage over other packaging producers. More efficient deliveries, less errors, better service, lower cost. That is the Kelly Box commitment and Top Gun is another tool to help us serve our customers better. 

Consolidation and Closures

“International Paper closing three US box plants, one sheet plant as consolidation continues
SAN FRANCISCO, May 3, 2013 (RISI) - In addition to previous reports of two box plant shutdowns,International
Paper this week said it will close three corrugated container plants and a sheet plant in the US by mid-year.

The company will close box plants in Indianapolis, Lake Wales, FL, and Kansas City, KS, and a sheet plant in Jacksonville, FL.

Related to the Indianapolis closure by early July, IP cited overcapacity in its corrugated packaging system in some areas following the February 2012 combination with Temple-Inland.

The Indianapolis shutdown will eliminate 91 jobs, and the closure in Lake Wales near Lakeland will impact 61 workers.”