Case Study: Cost Plus World Market boosts throughput and cuts energy use with Dematic

A Showpiece of Engineering Efficiency and Smart Energy Use

Cost Plus World Market, a specialty retailer operating over 259 U.S. stores, faced challenges with efficiency and rising costs due to operating multiple distribution centers in Stockton, California. Their rapid growth resulted in time-consuming and expensive shuttling of products between buildings. To address this, they sought to consolidate their west coast operations into a single, high-performance facility and partnered with vendor Dematic for a solution.

Dematic engineered and implemented an integrated order fulfillment system featuring warehouse control software (WCS) and the Dematic Integrated Sortation System (ISS). Key components included Dynamic Pallet Build software, which increased sorting capacity by 300% to 5,500 cartons per hour, and energy-saving features that reduced electricity and gas consumption by 30%. The results for Cost Plus included massively increased throughput, reduced labor, improved warehouse turns, and greater agility to handle their evolving product line.

Cost Plus World Market

Steve Knight

Senior Vice President of Distribution