No matter how well planned or spacious your warehouse is, you will always have those little spaces left around the premises that can be utilised with smaller shelving options for more storage.
Whether they are awkward corners, smaller aisle space or lower ceiling areas that can affect your implementation of pallet racking or industrial storage racks, they can be quite an eyesore when you know something could better use that space but are not sure what.
These smaller spaces can be best utilised to install smaller commercial shelving systems which allow for more maximising of space and being a little creative.
Smaller Shelving
Taking account of your smaller spaces, you can always look into shelving that can fit the space or be made to fit.
These spaces would suit those smaller items that are slotted in aisles between larger bulkier items, meaning you are getting a more streamlined and decluttered warehouse setting by better utilization of space.
Restructuring Quantity
When you shift some stock to a smaller area, you will no doubt have to re-evaluate the number of certain products that are shipped to you.
For smaller items previously, you may have ordered twice the amount to fill out a pallet rack bay. With the shift in how you store it, you will need to rethink the amounts that you are provided with to prevent them from being overloaded. If you reduce your requirement to a half pallet quantity, they not only keep your stock healthy but are also much easier to find away from larger items that could dwarf them on pallet racking.
Set Up Cross-Docking Space
If you have products that shift much quicker than others, you can benefit from looking at smaller shelving options to install towards your main docking space.
It also works for space to store items that are heavier and bulkier than pallet racking aisles can handle, but setting up some shelving saves a lot of time in documenting and storing without having to take time in adding them to the main inventory.
Store Room Shelving
Old disused offices or break rooms within the facility can be utilised to a great capacity with the use of warehouse storage equipment and commercial shelving.
Many much smaller items can be stored here, or even a lot of back-office stationary or filing can be put in archives within there to maximise space in other areas that may be cluttered. Using shelving systems helps to keep them all organised whilst making the best use of disused space.
For more information on warehouse storage equipment, contact the team at Monarch Shelving.
