When you look to move to new business premises and incorporate new warehouse facilities, the planning of your storage and warehouse shelves design should ideally be a straightforward process – it is, after all, a blank canvas to start on.

However, when designing your storage facilities, they should be designed from the inside out and beginning with the goods that need to be stored. The racking and shelving should be designed to decrease the item distance of travel, as well as how far the staff will be required to walk to collect them.

When commercial shelving and pallet racking is properly planned, you can make significant improvements in functionality. You also get to speed up your loading and unloading and increase output by having space more efficiently utilised. Accommodating high volume storage is key to significant savings on the company by being able to order in bulk and store adequately.

Redesigning Storage

Your warehouse storage usage will change as your business does, finding that new lines will be incorporated, requirements for storage will change and your shelving and racking arrangements will become of little to no use as time moves on.

Typically, a company would do a stock movement assessment to reduce any unnecessary manual handling of goods. This will reduce the distance that goods have to travel from the loading bay to their designated storage area as far as possible, further reducing the need for manual handling. In doing this, large bulkier items will be contained closer to loading bays whilst the more infrequent accessed stock would be placed furthest away.

Calculate Space

Before your commercial shelving and pallet racking arrangements can be planned and ordered, you need to know the exact dimensions of the available space. Any miscalculation or misplanning can have costly implications if the system does not fit the space it needs to.

Take the floor area measurements as well as the height of the room into consideration, factoring in any overhead pipes or ductwork. The calculation of the clear space must be done right when planning your storage facilities, rather than the dimensions of the building.

Access the Requirement

Even the smallest storage facility with limited floor space is open to plenty of storage potential. The important thing to consider is the dead air space the room holds and how it can be used to storage advantage.

The choice of your warehouse shelves design will be dictated ultimately by how much you look to store and the space you have to store it in. Arranging your shelving with narrow aisles ensures the most efficient use of space, but if you need plenty of loading and unloading room, you may need to think much higher in storage.

Talking with the team at Monarch Shelving helps to find the exact type of system for your storage needs. Contact the team today for all warehouse storage equipment needs.