Case Study Archive: Yard Ramps
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- Holly Poplawski
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- Case Study, Yard Ramps
Summary
About the Client:
- Property manager for strip mall in medium-sized suburb
- Owns the property
- Responsible for client satisfaction and maintenance
The Challenge:
- Ground-floor shipping bays make it difficult for tenants to unload shipments from trucks
- Tenants losing time unloading boxes of items one by one
- Businesses relocating to facilities with more accessible loading docks
Solution:
- Management company provides Handi-Ramp yard ramp for entire complex
- Portable loading dock solution can be moved from tenant to tenant to meet shipment needs
Results:
- Tenants very happy with newfound ability to unload shipments quickly
- Ramp acts as a selling point, resulting in faster lease-signings on empty storefronts
- Much lower turnover on existing businesses
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- Case Study, Material Handling, Yard Ramps
Summary
About the Client:
- Major League Baseball stadium in Chicago, IL
- Home stadium of the Chicago Cubs
- Hosts other sporting events and concerts
The Challenge:
- Back-to-back concerts left the outfield destroyed
- No loading docks nearby to unload massive rolls of new sod
- Required a temporary solution that could be delivered and removed when the job was finished
- Only two days to get the field back in shape
Solution:
- Deliver a 36-foot-long, portable yard ramp with significant weight capacity
- Set up and move the ramp as needed
- Coordinate with sod provider
Results:
- Ramp was delivered and retrieved on schedule
- Outfield was restored in time for home team’s return
- Wrigley Field purchased a yard ramp of their own 1 month later for soccer match
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- David Shiba
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- Case Study, Yard Ramps
Summary
Company sees decreased wait times, less spoilage, and faster shipping with a Handi-Ramp portable loading dock ramp
About the Client:
- Southern California produce wholesaler and distributor
- Operates farmer’s market out of warehouse parking lot
- Accepts shipments directly from farmers
The Challenge:
- Relieve the delays and congestion slowing down the warehouse’s operations
- Cut shipping delays to reduce product spoilage
- Create overflow loading dock space
- Reduce congestion in shipping areas
- Increase overall throughput for entire facility
Solution:
- Stage portable loading dock ramp near Building C (see map)
- Use the ramp to provide quick access to loading equipment for local deliveries
- Relieve congestion at larger buildings when their shipping bays are full with ramp
Results:
- Drastically reduced driver wait times
- Spoilage reduced by 4-7%
- Portable loading dock makes unloading possible anywhere
- Reduced overtime expense
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- David Shiba
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- Case Study, Material Handling, Safety, Yard Ramps
Summary
About the Client:
- Business park home to a number of manufacturing companies
- Businesses share central yard for shipping/receiving
- All tenants share concrete, permanent ramp for loading and unloading
The Challenge:
- Concrete ramp is immoveable, unsafe
- Location of ramp inconvenient for some of the businesses in the park
- Sharing one ramp is causing delays for entire park
Solution:
- One business owner purchases portable yard ramp from Handi-Ramp
- Can use portability to safely meet his shipments anywhere in the yard
- Possible to rent yard ramp to other tenants
Results:
- Significant decrease in loading/offloading times at the complex
- Independence for the ramp’s owner
- Renters speed up their operations, stay safe – ramp owner collects rent
- Ramp quickly yields high ROI