How It Works
Careful planning, design and layout ensures that you can access your products, maximise space and improve Your product organisation and flow.
Site Consultation
- We come to you and inspect your site
- We find out all about your products, your business and existing warehouse operations.
- Potential hazards such as obstructing fire hazards, air vents or high traffic routes are identified, so they can be taken into account when designing the best layout.
- We measure your storage space, check floor levels, slab design and building height to maximise space and to find out what will fit safely and accurately.
- We measure the size and weight of products or pallets to know what will fit considering safe load limits and Australian standards.
Design & Quote
- We will prepare a well designed warehouse layout that improves flow, inventory management and optimisation of space within your storage facility.
- We use AutoCAD and RACKman to allow you to visualise your warehouse layout, where your equipment will be located and where the racking will be most effective.
- We will discuss the best layout options for you and consult with your team to ensure it works with your business operations and product workflow.
- We provide you with a written quote. Our prices are competitive. Our solutions are innovative and creative. Our products of the highest quality and safest in the industry.
Supply, Deliver & Install
- Our racking specialist will assist you in choosing the right racking system and shelving to give you the best warehouse storage solution for your space and warehouse operations to find and access your products quickly and safely.
- We supply the best quality racking from local manufacturers exceeding Australian and international standards
- Delivery times are quick as racking is made locally. There is no waiting time due to international shipping.
- We organise our installation team and lifting equipment to install the storage solution and make the whole process less stressful and seamless for you.
Know your Business
The first step is to understand your current situation. It sounds obvious but you have to be able to answer the following questions:
- What business need are you fulfilling?
- What is your current storage requirement for each of your products?
- How can your current warehouse operations be made more efficient?
- What throughput, i.e. “speed to market” are you achieving?
- Do you have seasonal peaks?
Document Operational Process and Flow
The goal is to achieve a logical sequence of activities in which each activity is located as close as possible to the operation before it and also to the function that follows. This will avoid:
- unnecessary movement or travel
- cross-traffic and bottlenecks
- areas of high traffic
- too little space between processes and activities
Our aim is to situate the various warehouse activities so that each contributes to a smooth flow of operations with a minimum amount of movement and disruption. Further improved by some forethought about managing handling equipment.
FLOW – Create a detailed flow chart of the ideal operation
Inspect Building and measure storage area
Document the building size and dimensions and its position on the site provides input to the design process. A warehouse is essentially a cube: remember that within it there is both floor space and vertical space available.
Most storage equipment is free-standing and requires no structural support from the building itself, which allows us to build in flexibility to the operation by using modular storage components. We can change it as future requirements change, with minimum disruption.
The most space should be allocated for operations, storage and throughput activities. The least space should be given up for administrative functions such as offices, rest areas, pallets storage, vehicle parking, battery charging, etc. Utilise your vertical space and consider a mezzanine level to increase the amount of useful space in the facility. Everything should fit together precisely so you make the most of your space.
Make the best use of the vertical space that you have
Discuss Layout Options
We discuss a range of warehouse layout configurations to find the perfect fit for your storage requirements and business operations? We consider multiple equipment and process options and produce a high-level cost/benefit analysis for each. The next step is to create drawings to illustrate the best solutions and do a walkthrough to check that there are no issues with the design.
Ensure the design has the 4 main factors that are important when designing any warehouse storage or distribution facility to achieve the greatest storage density while optimising the flow of the products and keeping the safety of your employees, and get the most out of your storage space.
Think about your Future Needs
Consider your future capacity and resource needs for the next 5 years. The answers to these questions will help define your strategy and therefore your design and layout.
- What new processes and activities will take place in the warehouse?
- How much capital investment is needed?
- What type of storage equipment and media will be needed?
- What type of automated systems and technology are required to support this?
- What will the effect be on space and resources?