Warehouse Project Experts

Warehouse Improvement Delivered with Confidence

The stakes for warehouse improvement have never been higher. The pressure to
modernize, grow, and adapt creates enormous opportunities to scale operations, boost
efficiency, reduce costs, and improve service in a tight labor market.

From new site launches to automation upgrades, today’s warehouse improvement
projects involve more systems, more vendors, tighter timelines, and less room for error.

Our team of industry experts at PL Programs ensure these projects go live—on time
and on budget.

We understand what’s at stake, so we tailor every engagement for your unique business
needs, embed where we’re needed, and make sure each warehouse improvement
project delivers results to fuel future growth.

Why Are Warehouse Improvement Projects Difficult to Execute?

Limited Internal Resources

You’ve been tasked with executing a high-stakes warehouse transition. But your internal team is already stretched.

Complexity

Whether it’s a new site launch, an automation upgrade, or a cross- functional move, these projects come with intense demands, short timelines, and tight coordination

Best-In-Class PMO

Most mid-sized companies don’t have a fully staffed Project Management Office (PMO) with in-house warehouse operations expertise. That’s where we come in.

Built for Execution & Backed by Operational Experience

At PL Programs, our team of seasoned professionals has led distribution centers, implemented automation firsthand, and delivered results under pressure.

- Embedded project delivery support, not just advice
- Project Management Office (PMO)-level discipline tailored to your team’s need for process
- Automation and layout planning experience grounded in real-world operations
- Cross-functional coordination to ensure integrated delivery

Warehouse Improvement Project Delivery Support

We project-manage and integrate your workstreams across teams, systems, and
vendors on scopes ranging from site moves to $100M+ greenfield automated
startups. From kickoff to go-live, we embed with your team to lead execution, keep
stakeholders aligned, and deliver warehouse improvement projects with confidence.

Site Launch Blueprint

Ensure your site implementation is set up for success.

We conduct a site design review

We audit labor and process capacity

We verify or build your project plan

We provide a stabilization playbook.

Automation Launch Accelerator

We help your team plan, execute, and stabilize automation projects (e.g., robotics, AGVs, goods-to-person systems).

Includes charter alignment

Vendor selection

Implementation planning

Post-launch optimization

We bring the structure, clarity, and coordination to lead warehouse improvement projects to a successful launch.

For mid-sized manufacturers and distributors losing sleep over automation delays and cost overruns.

Solutions

Automation Launch Accelerator

Add automation with confidence. We help your team plan, execute, and stabilize automation projects (e.g., robotics, AGVs, goods-to-person systems). Includes charter alignment, vendor selection, implementation planning, and post-launch optimization.

Site Launch Blueprint

Ensure your site implementation is set up for success. We conduct a site design review, labor/process capacity audit, verify or build your project plan, and provide a stabilization playbook.

Project Delivery

We project-manage and integrate your project workstreams on scopes from robotics and conveyance additions to $100M+ distribution center startups.

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Embark on your journey towards digital excellence with tailored solutions. Let’s drive your success together!

What Our Clients Say

I can’t imagine what this project would be like without Paul” is a phrase often heard at [client]. Paul’s success in managing the complexity of large (>$100M) projects is a function if his world class organizational and facilitation skills, his ability to work broad groups of stakeholders, and a functional depth in logistics/operations he has amassed over years of digging into tough problems.

Everything that we did to ensure a successful startup worked beautifully... By all accounts, by far the best startup [Client] has ever done... Our processes are working.

“I worked with Paul and his team on some ramp-ups for beverage sub-co-packing facilities for one of our customers. Together we handled all the project management tasks for these integrations and start-ups. Working with Paul and his team is absolutely amazing, as they are always on top of everything and make sure that meetings are fun to attend and not a burden. Working with them in a team is just a breath of fresh air and Paul’s knowledge on diverse topics is really impressive. The qualities I appreciated the most from them were that they’re 100% reliable and you can always trust that what they say that they’ll do – they will go above and beyond to make sure that it is taken care of in the best way possible.”

“I can’t imagine what this project would be like without Paul” is a phrase often heard at [client]. Paul’s success in managing the complexity of large (>$100M) projects is a function if his world class organizational and facilitation skills, his ability to work broad groups of stakeholders, and a functional depth in logistics/operations he has amassed over years of digging into tough problems."

"Everything that we did to ensure a successful startup worked beautifully... By all accounts, by far the best startup [Client] has ever done... Our processes are working."

What Our Clients Say

Solutions:

Project Management

Our Approach:

We partner and integrate with your team to ensure project success. This means we work to understand your business, your people, and your needs. We apply the PMI standard for project management along with a tailored approach to your team’s needs. We:

Provide clarity for team and stakeholders on key schedule, scope, cost, and resource planning.
Align the team through the project
Provide detailed planning and follow-through
Integrate the project into your business and supply chain planning
Manage project risk and uncertainty
Ensure engaged, responsive communications
Deliver cost certainty through rigorous bid documents and processes

Engineering & Analysis:

You want to be confident that your design is done right the first time.

Our approach is quantitative, detailed, and grounded in Lean principles. Our 20+ years of experience in design and operations management ensures a solution that meets real-world needs.

We embed with your team to deliver:

Complex site implementations from business case through stabilization.
Project management office setup and administration for large programs.
Project experience includes forward & reverse logistics, large square footage, high headcount, and from minimally to highly automated operations.
Technologies like integrator solution design, procurement, and installation; goods-to-person systems; robotics and Automated or Laser Guided Vehicle (AGV / LGV) implementations; and pick module design and implementation.
Project support like foundational alignment on charter & business case; project controls; site and process design; industrial engineering reviews of labor plans and process capacities; technology design, procurement, and implementation.

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Reach out today to start a conversation about how we can help you achieve your goals.

Why PL Programs

Experience Huge Value

Our smaller, remote team’s understanding of the industry minimizes the costly onboarding, wasteful churn, and high hourly fees common with larger firms. We’re responsive and on your side.

Operations never stands still, and projects need to be integrated into the overall ongoing business. Take advantage of our experience to identify and avoid pitfalls that lead to huge costs, operational problems, and broken customer relationships.

Amplify Your Productivity

Staying competitive requires maximum productivity. Managing intralogistics projects in-house means juggling competing priorities, potentially minimizing your focus on training, operations, or technology development. Or perhaps you’re experiencing staffing challenges and increasingly rely on vendors to manage more scope through individual projects.

It’s common to partner with outside experts for many reasons, but few firms have the depth and breadth of experience in complex site startups as us. When you partner with us, we’re quick to align with your goals and lead projects on your behalf without constant hand-holding.

Benefit From Our Operational Expertise

We’re into warehousing. We love clean processes, good design, expert execution, and efficient and painless operations. And we love making those things happen for you.

Starting sites or adding capabilities can be messy, with a lot of change and risk. We minimize that risk with our experience starting large sites from concept through detailed design, planning, construction, equipping, staffing, programming, bringing it all together through integrated testing… and then operating the site as it ramps into your network.

You get a team that has been there and understands what can go wrong.

Our project management approach is highly tailored and adapts to your organization. You get clarity throughout all aspects of the project, because no one likes surprises.

Experience Huge Value

Our smaller, remote team’s understanding of the industry minimizes the costly onboarding, wasteful churn, and high hourly fees common with larger firms. We’re responsive and on your side.

Amplify Your Productivity

Benefit From Our Operational Expertise

We’re into warehousing. We love clean processes, good design, expert execution, and efficient and painless operations. And we love making those things happen for you.

You get a team that has been there and understands what can go wrong.

Our project management approach is highly tailored and adapts to your organization. You get clarity throughout all aspects of the project, because no one likes surprises.

Projects Successes

Leading Beverage Company

A leading beverage company engaged PL Programs for project management of their first North American distribution center. Facility was a greenfield automated site over 770k sf in size. PL Programs organized the work among a wide group of stakeholders, completed planning, managed governance processes, and added value through operational insights during design and implementation. The site went live on the planned schedule and on budget. The client has engaged PL Programs for its next site implementation.

Contract Packaging Company

Beverage Manufacturer

A beverage manufacturer engaged PL Programs to manage the onboarding of multiple sub-co-packers to increase capacity in a short time. This included quality, operations, IT, manufacturing technology, and other workstreams from the subcontractors and client company. The sub-copackers were onboarded and producing in the agreed timeframes. Client company had transparency and the right input through the process. PL Programs was subsequently re-engaged for similar and other projects.

Factory and Warehouse Automation

A beverage manufacturer and distribution company engaged PL Programs to manage the design and implementation of conveyance through their facility. This conveyance will tie new production lines into existing distribution conveyance and includes multiple elevators and over 900′ of mezzanine and pallet conveyor. The project is on track for delivery as planned.

Automated Beverage Warehouse

A leading beverage manufacturer/distributor engaged PL Programs to manage the design and procurement of an automated warehouse for full-pallet storage, layer picking, and VAS processing. PL Programs is managing all workstreams, including design, procurement, vendor communication, aligning design, and enabling the client decision. The project is on track for delivery as planned.