Today's storage has to be able to keep up with the fast-paced world of retail, with its focus on fast order fulfillment and overnight delivery. Pallet racking systems are streamlined and efficient, with technologies that make the best use of storage while protecting merchandise from damage. With them, you can even keep all of your products under one roof if you need to, for better efficiency.
Six benefits of pallet racking systems
1. They make better use of limited storage space
- You can go vertical with them
If you are trying to keep everything in your inventory in one warehouse, it can be difficult to use increasingly crowded floor space most efficiently. One way to do this is to "go vertical." Store more product with less floor space, and reduce both product turnaround and shipping times.
- They increase storage efficiency and density
Drive-in racking systems allow you to make storage more efficient by:
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Allowing you to store goods more densely
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Allowing trucks to enter racks' structures more easily to retrieve or place pallets of merchandise
Space saver rails let you configure storage racks more efficiently, with fewer aisles needed for access.
Storage density is increased by up to 75%.
2. You will have fewer damaged goods (and racks)
Today's pallet racking systems use heavy-duty, slant back support frames on driving in systems that are several pallet positions deep and several levels height. This prevents damage to merchandise.
In addition, racking systems are much more durable than previous versions, and can resist lift truck impacts.
3. You can customize your racks with different systems
These racks are durable and use different systems such as drive-in rack, selective rack, pushback rack, and carton flow rack settings, depending on your particular needs.
4. They make order fulfillment much more efficient
Customized packing and storage systems let you make much more efficient use of your warehouse space, which translates to quicker order fulfillment.
Modules efficiently select and store merchandise. Merchandise is not replenished by forklifts; instead, conveyors in large central aisles carry merchandise in and out for shipment and storage. Storage and packing systems work together to seamlessly move merchandise through the entire process. Merchandise is moved in, stored, removed from storage, and shipped out to customers in one seamless process. This means that there is no pause, no downtime, no searching for a particular piece of merchandise when the time comes to ship.
5. Today's pallet racking systems are "smart"
Because pallet racking systems today are "smart," you can increase your productivity by using specific technologies to reduce labor costs and divide merchandise into "lots" if you so choose. Inventory is always visible and rotated out to be replaced with new as quickly as possible.
6. Addition and expansion is easy
As your business and inventory grow, your pallet racking systems can expand with you. Start at one level and add more capabilities as you need to.
With flexibility of paramount concern, pallet racking systems let you spend only what you need to at any given time, with the ability to add on to current storage as you need to without needing to completely restructure. For example, you may start with a one tiered racking system, but added a second, third, and fourth as you need to with minimal to no disruption or downtime.
Today's pallet racking systems give you the ultimate in flexible, efficient, expandable, durable, technologically-supported inventory tracking and storage. You can start small, make the best use of limited space, and let your inventory expand and grow as you do, even as you keep customers happy thanks to promised on-time, efficient deliveries.
