Better Organization In Your Warehouse Can Benefit You

By Adrianna Noton

Better organization in your warehouse can benefit you as space is money. With real estate costs at a premium, it pays to make good use of your space. A cluttered and untidy warehouse is not only dangerous it is costly.

When pallets of goods arrive they need to be checked and stacked in as neat a way as possible to allow for access to the goods and space saving storage. The way they are stacked is very important as it could cost a company a lot of money in damaged goods and inefficient packing time. There are various ways to store these goods and each should be used to their best benefit.

Most cartons of goods are going to need clear access to allow the packers to use individual items or packs from the carton. These need to be stored within reach and cannot have anything stacked on top of them. This is when racking really comes into its own. The racking allows individual pallets to be stacked side by side on each layer. This means that the accessible goods can be on the lower staging, and the full cartons can be stacked safely on the higher layers for longer storage.

Using racking in this way allows safe and easy access for the packing staff, while making the most of each square foot of storage space. If theses same cartons were stacked on the floor the open cartons would have to be on top causing difficult and possibly even dangerous access for the staff. This would not only endanger the staff but it would increase their packing times.

Another good reason for using this kind of shelving or racking is to protect more delicate items. Items such as glass, pottery and even small items that are quite heavy cannot be safely stacked on top of each other to any effective height. Even cartons that look safe and secure will sag with weight over time. This can not only cause damage to the goods inside, but it can also make the whole pile of cartons unstable.

Movement around a warehouse needs to be swift and safe. Often fork lift trucks are running around and people are picking orders. On a day to day basis this is organized and safe. However should there be unstable piles of cartons that are sagging and breaking the safety factor decreases rapidly.

With the vibration of a fork lift running past one of these cartons could give way causing the whole pile to spill across the floor not only damaging all the goods inside, but also causing damage to anything in its path. Should there be a person in its path the cost to their health and life and the insurance claim on the company is surely not one any business would want to bear. This would make the cost of some industrial shelving seem a very small price to pay.

So it soon becomes clear that better organization in your warehouse can benefit you. By adding storage value to each square foot it utilizes, and also by holding goods safely and securely, the value of good racking is obvious. So keep your staff safe and efficient with good organization of space.

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