Do you have plans to expand your business? If the answer is yes, you may discover that expand your shelving is the better alternative if you want to keep additional paperwork or stock over moving your entire operation to a larger warehouse space.

Storing and stacking your files and stock is a precarious task in ensuring that they don’t get damaged and you retain ease in accessibility. If you have a pallet racking system that has a large mixture of stock that is starting to get disorganised through cramped available space, commercial shelving may be the ultimate addition to your existing warehouse for smaller items.

Commercial Shelving

Installing a solution such as commercial shelving alongside your pallet racking requirements allows for a greater emphasis on stock control. You can move smaller, compact stock items to an area fitted with commercial shelving that will ensure no weighty damage is done to smaller stock items.

The majority of warehouses that report lost and damaged stock in smaller items come from them being fitted between larger items on pallet racking, feeling they have no option as they have nowhere else to put them. By allocating a smaller section or room within your warehouse space specifically for commercial shelving, you can reduce your losses and improve warehouse operations.

The space will require adequate room for manoeuvrability between the shelving, but not to a threatening degree. This means that you can improve your stock levels for larger items in your industrial storage racks without risking damage to other stock.

Boxing Items

Organising how you stock items on both your pallet racing and commercial shelving can always be improved. Many warehouses fail to adopt the principle of having heavier and bulkier items stored at the bottom levels and lighter stock at the top.

This reduces the risk of accidents from falling stock and overloading of weight requirements on your systems, giving you a more secure system and longevity overall. By designating stock to labelled boxes, you also reduce the risk of losing stock or missing them from client orders as they can easily be found in the pick.

Organisation

You must re-evaluate your warehouse layout over time to ensure that you are still receiving the very best in operational control of your space.

This includes constantly evaluating your inventory and how you are stocking it, being realistic with what you are storing and if you are ordering too much stock in a season where it is on the downswing.

Contact the team at Monarch Shelving today to explore your warehouse storage equipment possibilities and expand your shelving.