Friday 26 June 2015

How to design your warehouse shelving

Design your shelving and racks to be suitable for the kind of goods you need to store in terms of depth, height and strength. Then think about the location of the goods. You want to be able to get delivery vehicles as close to your shelves as possible to save time and effort. The shelves also need to be close to those staff members that regularly use the goods stored on them. If you have pickers and packers, they should be able to easily wheel a trolley in between each row of racking.

Existing facilities

If you need to redesign your existing storage facility, treat it as an opportunity to carry out an assessment of how your stock is moved. You should aim to reduce the unnecessary handling of goods.

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Keep large bulky items close to your loading bay and store stock that's used infrequently further away than popular lines.

Picking and packing.

Even if your warehouse is on the small side and your employees don't have to travel far to pick orders, efficiently organising the space will still make a considerable difference to your productivity.

In larger buildings, the efficient arrangement of stock can save on staff costs and increase an operation's output significantly. It can also boost morale – staff that have to walk for five minutes to pick a £5 order tend to get a little disgruntled.

Dot packing areas between shelving units so that staff members can base themselves at different locations depending on what they are picking at the time.

Load the shelves sensibly with heavy items at waist height or lower, and group similar items together. It's mostly common sense but you may miss something so include your employees in the design process.

Calculating your available storage space.

Before you can order, or even plan, your storage solutions you need to know the precise dimensions of the available space.

Measure the floor area and the height of each room several times to make sure you're right. Remember – you need to calculate the volume of 'clear space' in your unit which needs to be measured rather than taken from the building's plans. Duct work and overhead pipes will reduce the amount of clear space and you need to be careful not to block any power points or vents and to leave enough space for access.

There are many suppliers of industrial shelving units in the UK and many will offer their advice on which type and how much shelving you should go for.


Assessing your requirements.

How much space do you need? Don't think in terms of floor space, think in terms of volume. You want to stack your stock upwards to really make the most of a garage shelving units UK.

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If you store large volumes of stock, using your limited space efficiently is even more important. In this case, keep the aisles as narrow as possible while still leaving enough space for a pallet truck, or if necessary, a fork lift truck.

Purchasing the shelving.

There is a lot of competition between companies selling industrial shelving units in the UK which has had the effect of driving prices down to unprecedentedly low levels.

Shop around for the best deal and buy the best quality shelves you can afford – it will make economic sense in the long term.

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