Today’s logistics environment depends on making the most of warehouse space and streamlining storage for optimal results. The increasing need for expedited fulfilment and constantly changing inventory combinations may render conventional storage options inadequate in certain cases.
Systems that rethink the layout:
- Vertical Expansion: Lots of overhead space in warehouses is often unused. Look at putting in high-bay racking systems to hold pallets that are often accessed. If you want to add more storage space for things with lesser demand, think about constructing mezzanine levels. To pick small components quickly, utilize vertical carousels.
- Optimizing your aisles: Although laws require minimum aisle widths for worker safety and equipment mobility, assess your present processes and consider making any necessary modifications. Storage density can be raised without sacrificing safety when narrow aisle racking systems and specialty forklifts are used together.
Systems that enable creative storage:
- Mobile racking solutions: Invest in mobile racking solutions so you may tidy up your floor space when not in use by compacting them together. By doing this, you may optimize your storage space and keep particular inventory sections easily accessible.
- Drive-through racking systems: Investigate drive-thru racking systems for warehouses that see a high turnover of merchandise. Efficient loading and unloading from both sides of the aisle is made possible by these, which permit forklifts to pass right through the racking. In order to guarantee worker safety, they necessitate meticulous planning and safety measures.
Systems that use developing technology:
- Warehouse Management Systems (WMS): Storage allocation and inventory management can be optimised by implementing warehouse management systems, or WMSs. Pickers can be directed to the most effective routes by WMS, which can also monitor inventory levels and recommend ideal storage sites based on size and demand. It also expedites the picking process and reduces wastage of time.
Systems that promote utilisation of space:
- Wall Storage: Use underused wall space to hang cabinets or shelves to hold tools, small components, or other objects that are regularly needed. In doing so, you save floor space and keep things easily accessible.
- Overhead Storage: Store slow-moving or seasonal items above walkways or picking aisles with overhead bins or hanging storage solutions. Without interfering with routine business, this keeps them accessible and structured.