The Why of
Pallet Storage
Racks
In this unstable economy, growth often costs your organization more money than it makes, reports Camille Howe of Fox News.
When your warehouse becomes overcrowded, you may feel forced to move-something almost no company can afford to do at the present time. Pallet storage racks can give you a much more cost effective alternative to moves and expansion, and represent perhaps the one material handling investment that carries with them the most assured return on investment. This is because every a pallet storage rack is designed for to improve organization and increase the efficiency of process flow.
Pallet storage racks convert floor space and vertical cube space into solid storage space. In this sense, they expand the useable cubic area of a facility from within. We cannot stress the importance of this enough to our clients. Inventory and safety protocols depend very heavily on maintaining a storage facility that can be arranged efficiently and accessed readily. Cluttered floor space is hazardous to workers and creates obstacles for fork trucks and pallet jacks. If you clean these areas up, however, you will quickly improve your organization's safety rating and make it possible to manage inventory more efficiently and accurately. When you know what materials you have, where they are, and what quantities are currently on hand, it becomes much easier to manage books and avoid procurement errors that can cost the company money.
Organizing materials on a pallet storage rack keeps them in better condition. Storing something haphazardly is an invitation to damage. Placing it on the stable storage platform of a pallet rack gets it off of the floor and away from feet and moving equipment. This can save a significant amount of money on replacement costs for damaged and lost inventory. It can also reduce the time involved in finding parts, supplies, small equipment components, and products ready for shipment.
We work hard to provide a storage platform that fits hand-in-glove with the facility, industry, size, and process flow of your operation. There is nothing generic about the way we sell pallet storage racks. Even when we sell used racking materials or racking systems, the finished product is a custom pallet rack made exactly for what the client needs. Used pallet storage racks often save companies up to 40%, and they can be custom built from components we have access to through nationwide procurement channels. New pallet storage racks can also be custom built in the same manner, of course.
A material handling specialist will carefully gather all the data needed to calculate what type of pallet storage rack you require. Factors such as square footage, ceiling height, the industry you work in, the type of materials you will be storing, and a general estimate of the size and weight of pallets and containers you will place on your racking. With this information, we can calculate the horizontal and vertical dimensions of your rack and provide a weight capacitance that ensures safe storage. We do this for you so you can simply give us the information and wait for your new warehouse storage system to arrive.
