Genesco Field Trip a Success

On Thursday we met at the Genesco Distribution Center in Lebanon, TN for a tour. Wesley Lankford and his IT team led us through their facility. Genesco operates four highly fashionable shoe and hat stores across the country: Journeyz, Journeyz Kids, Hat World, and Shi. The distribution center is highly automated and ships to all of their stores across the country. In any given day they can ship up to 85,000 pairs of shoes. On Thursday, 6/8/2006, they shipped 61,000. It is an amazing operation with conveyors throughout the facility that take a carton of shows from their picking area to the taping area to the shipping dock.