CLIENT PROFILE
Discount Tire, the largest privately owned independent tire dealer network, moved into a new
150,000 square foot facility in Scottsdale, Arizona. The company had experienced rapid growth
since its inception and corporate operations tripled in size and spread into multiple buildings.
The new building was designed to consolidate staff, equipment and files from five buildings
into one central facility.
The space was carefully designed to be efficient and accommodate growth. The company utilized
a combination of document management strategies to help achieve its goals.
CHALLENGE
The company's workstations were very paper intensive and the goal in the workspace redesign
was to increase storage capacity within the same footprint.
To meet the company's goal to conserve on space in the new building, the departments that
did not image incorporated a mobile system to store files and materials.
SOLUTION
Workspace Storage Greg Gawin of Concert Architectural Interiors, the local
Spacesaver representative, worked with Governale to develop a customized Spacesaver
ActiveStor® tower cabinet that met almost all of the customer's task filing storage needs.
The cabinets include three high-capacity file drawers offering 44 inches of filing space each
- nearly 50 percent more capacity than traditional filing drawers - and a top shelf cabinet
that is used to store binders two rows deep.
The added storage capacity eliminated the need for a pedestal, a two drawer lateral and reduced
the number of overhead storage compartments from two to one. The only other storage added to the
workspace was a pencil drawer with a hidden back compartment for personal items. "The towers
offered us something new and different, while providing functionality," said Governale. "We
looked at other storage solutions, including traditional filing solutions, but when we saw the tower,
we loved it."
Mobile Storage In the Legal, Accounting and Wheels departments mechanical assisted systems
were utilized. In the Human Resource and Accounts Payable departments, where record pulls are more
frequent, powered systems were used to increase safety and help make the work less burdensome.
Woodmatch laminate end panels, provided by Wood Design Inc., Fort Atkinson, WI, were used in several
departments to blend with the warm cherry interior decor.
Concert also provided all of the service and supplies to convert several departments from top-tab
files to side-tab shelf-oriented files and helped to design a color coding system to make filing
more efficient.
Governale was happy with the service and ease of working with a single source for all of their
storage needs. "It was very convenient to work with one vendor on all of our storage needs.
We discussed our goals with Greg and he did all of the space planning, product design and
installation," she said.
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