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How to Design an Efficient Warehouse Racking System

How to Design an Efficient Warehouse Racking System

It is not an easy job to design an efficient layout for your warehouse shelving systems. If your warehouse racking systems are inefficient, your workers will be effected by the inefficient environment, too. As a result, jobs slow down, products could not be circulated as quickly as possible. So planning an high efficient layout for your warehouse is very important. The following 5 steps may help to build the most efficient warehouse plan.

1.Consult the experience warehouse operators.
Before planning, consult the experience warehouse managers or operators first for more information like what kinds of systems they used to worked with.

2.Clearly understand your storage requirement. A variety of factors need to be taken into consideration such as the products access mode (manual, mechanical, automatic); storage capacity(small or large) and the flow of products that are moving etc.

3.Maximize the use of warehouse space. An efficient layout is to make full use of your warehouse space both in vertical and horizontal direction.

4.Plan for long run development. Choose the modular racking systems that can be assemble and rearranged when needed in the future for expanding your warehouse.

5. Consider durability. Durability is always needed to consider when investing a warehouse racking system. Cheaper and poor quality rack systems will not help you to save some budget in the long term.