When plotting out the perfect warehouse design for your business, your eye will be on securing the best ROI by making sure product and distribution can be achieved in the most efficient, rapid and safe way possible.
Therefore, looking into optimising your warehouse and the various factors to ensure that are key areas of consideration. When it comes to pallet racking, 9 out of ten warehouse owners will ask the supplier straight out what information is required to get a quote for a system.
Considering the Equipment
Having the racking system is one thing, but that is part of the solution. You will need to consider a huge thing when discussing your racking system – space for equipment.
Transporting and lifting equipment needs enough space which may not be ideally accounted for in typical warehouse design, which will then alter the proposal if failed to take into account. When planning any pallet racking project, equipment needs to be considered within the design from the very beginning to ensure you have the right amount of floor space that does not hold up operations.
Breakdown Your Products
One of the bigger factors towards your industrial storage racks is exactly what you are going to be storing on them. This needs to be heavily factored into the planning process.
What needs to be figured into the design is the number of units stored, to dimensions of individual units and the weight of all concerned. These are the basic details required to determine the correct warehouse design for storage. From there you can be sure of individual places and sections being in the warehouse for differing products and categories.
Explore Space and Volume
Your warehouse planning comes down to understanding the required number of pallet spaces for stored products. By determining this knowledge with the above factors, you have the essential foundations of the ideal warehouse layout.
Obviously, the running of the warehouse operations in a safe manner is paramount in importance, so adhering to all HSE advice and guidelines needs to be undertaken and taught to all key employees and workers, including knowledge to keep access points clear.
Ensure Personnel Knows Roles
When it comes to staff working around the warehouse, those who work and operate around a pallet racking system will need to undergo training on how to safely operate around the system.
This includes forklift operators and picking crew, adhering to safety measures of knowing what to do and not to do around these systems, including reporting of any incidents around the system should accidents occur.
For more information on pallet racking and warehouse storage equipment, contact the team at Monarch shelving today.
