CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 17, 2025--
Wize Solutions has hit a major milestone, surpassing 500 employees nationwide. This rapid growth has been fueled by the company’s commitment to providing customers with material handling installation solutions across all sectors of its business. Wize Solutions’ Automation, Racking and Dock, and Door teams have all increased in capacity and skill. These teams will continue building on an upward trajectory as the company remains committed to diligent hiring standards.
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New recruitment has also contributed to this rapid growth, as the company strives to provide excellent installation services across the country. Since surpassing 500 employees, Wize Solutions is now one of the largest warehouse installation providers in the United States. Wize recently added positions in safety, HR and operational talent to their executive team, with all additions supporting the goal of maintaining a strong foundation based on organization, management and execution. The company remains focused on operating the Wize Solutions Way, prioritizing safety, efficiency and professionalism across all aspects of the business.
As automation becomes more of a standard, Wize has expanded its staff and capabilities to ensure that Wize will be able to support its client base, whatever the size, scope or challenge.
“We are always looking for ways to better serve our customers and address quickly changing trends within the warehousing industry,” said Ryan Boucher, vice president of Wize Solutions. “As we expand into new territories, we continue to hire accordingly, ensuring all team members are dedicated, qualified and eager to quickly meet the needs of our customers, no matter the project.”
With the recent acquisition of York Warehouse Equipment Erectors in Phoenix, Wize is growing its footprint in both existing regions and new markets. This growth will help support the company’s objective of providing expert teams in local markets to support warehouse installation projects of all kinds, specializing in those that require more complex planning and execution.
Wize continues to focus on automation and warehouse builds, including full rack installation, pick modules, mezzanines, shelving products, rack repair and dock door services, with the constant addition of new technologies and services. For more information, please visit wizesolutions.com and stay connected with the company on LinkedIn.
About Wize Solutions, Inc.
Wize Solutions is a national leader in material handling integration solutions. With successful projects across all 50 states as well as Australia, Canada, Japan, Mexico and more, Wize has the experience, industry relationships and high standards to get the job done safely and on time. The Wize Solutions Way provides its installation crews annual training programs to remain up to date on all industry innovations. Offering specialty installation services for shelving, wire guidance, mezzanine, lockers, industrial fans, rack repair, curtain walls and just about anything a warehouse needs to stay efficient, Wize is the only partner you need when building or retrofitting and upgrading a warehouse.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Wednesday rescinded a rule that DHS expenditures over $100,000 be personally approved by his office, ending a widely criticized policy implemented by his predecessor Kristi Noem that critics said put a particular burden on the Federal Emergency Management Agency ’s work aiding disaster response and recovery.
The decision marks the first major action by the new Homeland Security leader, sworn in last week, to change a policy implemented by Noem, whom President Donald Trump fired in March.
Mullin's move is expected to ease a spending bottleneck that lawmakers and states said delayed disaster response and recovery funds, though those impacts are unlikely to be widely felt until after the end of the DHS shutdown, now in its 46th day.
A DHS spokesperson confirmed that Mullin rescinded the rule Wednesday, telling The Associated Press the secretary “re-evaluated the contract processes to make sure DHS is serving the American taxpayer efficiently.” CBS News first reported Mullin's decision.
The spokesperson said Mullin’s action will streamline the contracting process and allocate aid more efficiently.
The International Association of Emergency Managers praised Mullin’s decision. “We appreciate Secretary Mullin’s common-sense approach to this matter, and we look forward to working with him,” said Josh Morton, president of IAEM-USA.
Noem issued a directive last June requiring that she personally approve any Department of Homeland Security expenditure over $100,000. Critics said the rule undermined FEMA in particular, an agency that routinely issues contracts and reimbursements well over that amount in its work preparing for and responding to natural and manmade disasters across the U.S.
The policy created “an untenable situation for emergency managers,” Morton said, and a bottleneck that also hindered mitigation and preparedness programs, “putting Americans at increased risk from disasters.”
A recently released report by Democratic members of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee found the approval rule had delayed at least 1,000 FEMA contracts, grants or disaster reimbursements by September.
The policy came under scrutiny after news reports linked it to unstaffed call centers and delays deploying FEMA Urban Search and Rescue teams to Texas during deadly floods last July, and brought sharp rebuke from some state officials and lawmakers, especially Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, whose state is still recovering from devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene in 2024.
“You’ve failed at FEMA,” Tillis told Noem at a Senate hearing the day before she was fired.
About $2.2 billion in recovery and mitigation dollars were in the DHS approval queue Wednesday, according to FEMA data seen by the AP.
“It’s got a great mission, and I think people at FEMA want to do their job,” Mullin told lawmakers at his March confirmation hearing, sparking cautious hope that he would ease the tumult experienced at the agency under Noem.
Mullin said he would keep the agency ”adequately staffed” after it lost over 2,400 employees last year, and said he was already considering nominees for a permanent FEMA administrator, which the agency still lacks.
Trump has repeatedly floated the idea of eliminating FEMA, saying as recently as Tuesday that the agency is “very expensive and it really doesn’t get the job done.”
Michael Coen, FEMA chief of staff during the Obama and Biden administrations, said, “Hopefully this a step toward transparency and stability between FEMA and states."
DHS is reviewing other policies across the agency, pausing the purchase of new warehouses for immigration detention this week as it reviews contracts signed under Noem.
Lifting the spending approval rule will not necessarily mean a rapid flow of FEMA reimbursements to states, tribes and territories, as the agency is still impacted by the DHS fund impasse, now the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.
While FEMA disaster response and recovery activities are paid out of a non-lapsing Disaster Relief Fund, that money is running low, a FEMA official warned lawmakers in a House hearing last week, with about $3.6 billion remaining. The DHS appropriations bill would add just over $26 billion to the fund.
Republican lawmakers on Wednesday signaled an agreement to end the shutdown could be reached in the coming days.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, March 24, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
