DC Health Check — Know exactly where your warehouse is leaking money

Process

How it works

Send exports

Standard reports from your WMS and payroll system — 60–90 minutes of downloading, no custom queries, no IT project. We map whatever your system produces.

We analyze

Six diagnostic areas, benchmarked two ways: against your own building's demonstrated best, and against mid-market industry bands. Every dollar figure shows its formula inline — you can audit our math in the document.

You get the fix list

A ~25-page report, a 16-KPI scorecard, a savings table, and a prioritized fix list ranked by dollar impact ÷ effort, with a 90-day roadmap. Ten business days from data-complete, guaranteed.

Scope

What's inside every audit

Labor productivity & utilization

Cost-per-order — vs. benchmark and vs. a 3PL shadow price

Inbound & dock-to-stock

Inventory integrity

Slotting & pick path

Order flow & shipping spend

Fixed scope, every time. That's how it stays $999 and ten days.

The 5x Guarantee

Five times the fee, or it's free.

If the DC Health Check doesn't identify at least five times its fee — $4,995 in annualized, formula-backed savings opportunities for the Standard audit — we refund 100% of the fee. And we deliver in 10 business days from data-complete, or credit $150 per business day late.

5×Guaranteed return

SAMPLE

Proof

See a real report

Download the full sample audit of Meridian Fulfillment Co. — a fictional 90,000 sq ft 3PL with the kind of findings we see every week: overtime drift, mis-slotted A-movers, avoidable expedite spend, a quiet inventory-adjustment spike.

Download the sample report (PDF) →

Watermarked "Sample — fictional data" · 22 pages, verified against the synthetic dataset

Pricing

Simple, flat, in writing

Core offer

Standard

$999

All six areas, one building, 12 months of history. Report + scorecard + savings table + fix list + roadmap + one written Q&A round. $499 to schedule, $500 on delivery.

Plus

$1,999

Standard, plus a top-100 SKU re-slot move list, a weekly staffing model you keep, a 20-minute recorded executive walkthrough, and one optional 45-minute readout call.

On-Site Validation Day

$1,500 + travel

Audit clients only. We walk your floor, spot-validate the top findings, and brief your leadership in person.

Ops Intelligence Briefing

$600/mo

Monthly 2-page KPI brief off refreshed exports. Track the climb.

Questions

FAQ

How is my data handled?

Encrypted in transit, stored in an access-controlled workspace with a single accountable owner — never shared, never pooled. Raw files deleted 60 days after delivery on request. We never need employee names or SSNs — anonymous IDs and hours by department are enough, and our first processing step strips any names that slip through. Full data-handling one-pager available before you send anything.

Our exports are messy.

That's normal and fine. We map whatever your system produces to our schema. If something critical is missing we tell you exactly what and where to find it within one business day.

Why is this $999 when consultants charge $25K+?

No site visits, no discovery calls, no slide theater. Fixed scope, standard exports, and an analysis pipeline that does the heavy computation — your fee buys the analysis and the operator judgment, not travel and meetings.

Which systems do you support?

ShipHero, Extensiv/3PL Central, NetSuite WMS, Logiwa, Fishbowl/ShipStation stacks — and anything else that can export orders, inventory, and labor hours. We send a column dictionary; if your reports contain the columns, we can map them.

Will this create work for my IT team?

No. Every item on the checklist is a standard report export. Total client effort is under two hours, promised in writing.

Can you come see the building?

Yes — as a paid Validation Day after draft findings, so the visit confirms numbers instead of replacing them.

About

Who's behind this

DC Health Check is run by career distribution operators — leaders who have owned P&L, labor, and inventory inside high-volume fulfillment buildings shipping tens of thousands of order lines a day. Behind them sits a dedicated analytics practice: a benchmarked diagnostic engine where every dollar figure traces to its formula. We built the DC Health Check because most warehouses don't need a $25K consulting engagement to find six figures of leakage — they need their data read properly by people who have run the floor.

Know exactly where your warehouse is leaking money.