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Pallet Racking in Crawley | Preparing for a Racking Installation

Do you have a factory or a warehouse that could benefit from pallet racking? Knowing where to start is often the biggest hurdle most businesses face when reorganising how they store goods, but this doesn’t mean the process needs to be difficult even when starting out from scratch. Covering all parts of Crawley, Gatwick Forklifts is always here to guide you.

You can use this news post to guide you too.

We understand that there’s more to logistics than just making sure your orders are dispatched and delivered in good time. Your storage facilities need to be organised if you want your business to be efficient. Pallet racking is a simple way to revolutionise your storage space which, over the longer term, will save your business valuable time and money.

Here, we advise you on how to prepare your Crawley premises for an installation with safe access to your stock.

The Layout

Before planning the installation of pallet racking, you will need to analyse your factory or warehouse in sections and in its entirety. Understanding the layout is the first step in a process that factors in efficiency and safety. Analyse how day-to-day operations work in each area. A solid strategy now will lead to a well-designed storage system that helps you to gain more from the space you currently have available.

Organised pallet racking minimises goods handling, provides better access to stock, improves positioning and gives you more control over how you work inside your Crawley premises.

Well-managed layouts will ease congestion in busy areas. They will make installation and maintenance easier to conduct.

Stock Management

Careful management of your inventory will help in negating the issues factories and warehouses encounter. If you have control over stock, you have control over storage. Knowing what you need to keep on the shelves to fulfil orders will lead to a pallet racking installation where you never waste floor space or compromise profitability through overordering or wastage.

We advise clients in the Crawley area to use software as a means of managing their inventory. Modern programs provide businesses with real-time figures on what is in stock. As well as reducing instances or over or underordering, good inventory management also means that the racking you install is right for the size and scale of your business.

Choosing a Pallet Racking System

While there are other options available, pallet racking will usually fall into one of four designs. If you stock heavy, bulky or abnormally long items, cantilever racking is the best choice. Pushed-back pallet racking is perfect for premises with large storage densities. Drive-in systems work well when using forklifts to move large quantities of the same product.

Narrow aisle pallet racking optimises space in smaller areas to make order picking and manoeuvrability easier.

If you would like us to visit your premises in Crawley to help in planning for an installation, this will never be a problem. Gatwick Forklifts is client-facing and client-focused. Our success is directly related to your success, and we help you to optimise your storage and floor space by making you the most important person in our friendly, dependable company.

For pallet racking services in Crawley, call 01293 831300.