One of the many pressures a warehouse or distribution centre faces is overstock, leading to floorspace and racking becoming overloaded. No matter what size warehouse you run, horizontal space is always limited.

What many business owners fail to grasp as a concept is that vertical space holds the solution to most spatial restrictions. No warehouse wants its stock on the floor or occupying the end of aisle space, so it is time to redefine how your space is used. This results in specialised pallet racking to boost that storage potential.

Racking Space

Warehouse racking appeals due to the relative ease it has in storage and forklift interaction. When distribution challenges come thick and fast, the best pallet racking for warehouses is future-proofed for decades to come.

If you have just purchased or rented a new warehouse space, it makes sense to install racking that supports the most efficient distribution process from the outset. There are different variations of pallet racking designed to suit every kind of warehouse environment in distribution and storage. As an example, there is double deep pallet racking for slow rotation stock lines, as well as live pallet storage for more rapid rotation – a highly effective system for fast handling times.

When setting up your warehouse racking system, you want to have optimum options to plan for the future, adapting to supply chain challenges or customer demand.

Using Vertical Space

Business owners typically consider the horizontal space over anything else whilst not considering the vertical aspect of their storage needs. If you plan on using vertical space, you will need to ensure that your lifting equipment can accommodate it.

Your pallet racking system needs to consider enough room for forklifts and pallet trucks without wasting any potential storage space you have. Poor design wastes significant volumes of capacity in each aisle. Most pallet racking installations are configured with an aisle width of 2.5 to 4 metres. There is specialist narrow aisle pallet racking systems that reduce this to 1.6 metres.

Improvement on Efficiency

Opting for vertical storage will help to improve efficiency and productivity within the warehouse. A well-conceived racking system, designed to meet the maximum requirements of the business, will easily support seamless stock handling and order fulfilment. Maximising this space with pallet racking ensures that your business will not need to invest in new premises or additional storage requirements.

For more information on warehouse storage equipment, contact the team at Monarch Shelving today.