More Room for More Parts – Moss Expansion Nears Completion

Pictured above (top) is the ‘ground breaking’ just before the bulldozers started. Doing a little ‘manual labor’ for a change and turning the first spade of earth are from left; Al Moss, founder and president; Howard Goldman, Chief Executive Officer, and Glen Adams, Executive Vice-President, while the rest of the Moss Crew made sure they do a good job. Center photo: A couple of weeks later and it’s starting to go up! Bottom Photo: We can’t wait to move in.

The last few months around Moss Motors have been unusually chaotic. To cope with our need for additional warehouse space, a new 12,000 sq. ft addition has been going up behind our main building in Goleta. After the lengthy “paperwork battle,” getting all the necessary permits, etc, the actual construction is going very quickly. From bare slab to covered building in three days impressed your writer, anyway!

As soon as all the electrical and plumbing hookups are made, we will be setting up the inside to accommodate the shelving for all those items we’ve been storing in offsite locations. With the recent addition of MGB 1968-80 and TR6/250 parts, the total number of different parts we stock has grown to almost 16,000! Not only are we expanding our storage capability, we are also taking this opportunity to re-organize the warehouse so that the fastest-moving parts are located in one area. This will cut down the amount of walking our parts pullers have to do, so that they can pick even more orders each day.

In addition, we are moving our Quality Control and Packing Stations into the new building. Instead of the heavily overworked present set-up, we will have more room to set up more stations. This, too, will expedite our order processing, help minimize errors and give you faster, better service.

Although we are excited by all this expansion, we realize that it means a great deal of extra work for all of us. The order flow cannot stop while we make all the moves, so we anticipate a few more months of chaos before the full benefits can be realized. Fortunately, enthusiasm runs high at Moss, so our people are willing to accept the problems, knowing that the solution is just around the corner! We hope you will be patient with us, too.