eBook - Warehouse Solutions (EM21060) - Book - Page 9
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Making the Best Use
of Your Storage Space
SELECTING THE RIGHT RACKING TO
INCREASE CAPACITY AND OPTIMIZE
EFFICIENCY
Accessing the facility’s vertical space with
a customized racking solution can unlock
additional capacity and help you meet
challenging space and storage demands.
Thoughtful rack design matches the type of
storage to inventory movement and helps ensure
it follows the most efficient path both into and
out of the warehouse.
Once you’ve established the layout of your
facility and how products move throughout, it’s
time to tackle one of the most common material
handling challenges in the warehouse: making
the best use of your storage space. Space is
the most precious commodity in the warehouse,
and expanding the physical footprint can be
costly and time-consuming. Pushing existing
capacity to its limits often means relegating
inventory to deep, hard-to-reach areas, creating
inefficiencies.
Matching the right racking solution with the right
lift truck capabilities allows your team to have the
proper tools for each job so they can work more
efficiently. In this chapter, we will explore some of
the key considerations for a warehouse racking
system and some of the most popular types of
racks in the market.
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