Today’s often utilised keyword in distribution and warehousing is optimisation, and it is a process that can be done within days to make a warehouse improvement, or to quickly adapt to business challenges, shifts in the market and consumer buying habits.
Fully transforming your warehouse into an agile resource is the big step to pushing your business towards fully operational success.
Improvements in Warehousing
Traditionally, your warehouse is utilised for bulk storage and commercial goods. Over the last decade, many implementations have been introduced such as warehouse management systems, automation and newer storage solutions to make the business more productive and flexible.
This plays greatly into boosting the business into a more competitive edge as well as streamlining your operations. Having a scaled, correct floor plan of the warehouse layout can be revisited many times throughout your business lifespan, and having an agile warehouse involves planning and installing the right storage solutions for your goods.
Storage
Installing and operating flexible industrial storage racks is key to any warehouse operation. Our recommendation would be installing the right warehouse storage equipment for the operation not only in place but with avenues for growth.
Pallet racking should always be measured and space allocated, being sure to leave enough room in the planning for manoeuvrability and operations between the racks. Some systems extend to the ceiling level where the storage of more obscure and specialist stock can be placed, out of the way of more in-demand stock that shifts a lot faster. It is also useful for stock that would otherwise fill the end of an aisle providing risk for staff, picking trucks and forklifts.
Allocation for Smaller Stock
Other smaller products can be stored in smaller rooms via commercial shelving, keeping them away from larger stock items and having their designated area along with other smaller pick items and stock.
By ensuring that your stock does not overrun and you take instinct on providing smaller stock items with an area complete with simpler shelving solutions, you can maximise the flow of your warehouse around racking by ensuring these larger products do not share a space with smaller products that would be susceptible to damage by association. This in turn reduces any risk of damage or injury to employees picking stock around more hazardous large products that could fall and be fatal.
For more information on warehouse improvement, industrial storage solutions and office equipment Manchester, contact the team at Monarch Shelving.
