Ask yourself…do you have a love for your facility? Evaluating how to maximize space and efficiency in your warehouse is always evolving. This annual ‘task’ is needed to keep up with your material handling needs and the demands in running your facility. Optimizing your storage capacity within your warehouse increases its efficiency and productivity as well as the profitability over time. Having the right material handling solutions within the given footprint is vital. Having these systems and processes in place will help facilitate the ease at which your operations run. And the space utilized will ultimately shape warehouse performance and determine its success.

Keep these few tips in mind. Be sure to use all vertical (and dimensional) space. Whether you have the capabilities to install a mezzanine, creating additional levels of use, or to implement racking for additional storage, the space is extremely valuable when looking at ways to maximize footprint. Consolidate. Determine any areas in your warehouse where products and processes can be consolidated to boost efficiency and integrate the overall flow. Examine current material handling equipment. Where can you make any necessary adjustments, improvements, or additions in equipment to fully empower your warehouse operations.

Regardless of the allocated space in your warehouse, the solutions that best fit your material handling needs and challenges are plenty. It is within grasp to implement viable industry solutions and technologies that can enhance product throughput within your warehouse. Its success is a result of the culmination of products and processes in place fulfilling those material handling needs. And through implementation, your warehouse equipment and operations will run smoothly—optimizing on efficiency, productivity, and profitability, thereby maintaining the love for your facility.

Author: Heather Connors, Director of Marketing, Conveyor Handling Company