Once you have optimized the layout of your storage facility, your level of service will rise and your costs will fall.
In certain situations, this can even render future expansion completely unnecessary.
Prerequisites
The point of departure from which to optimize storage layout is a combination of sound basic data, sound knowledge of logistics and storage solutions, and involving your employees.
And, not least, avoiding the typical pitfalls.
Typical pitfalls
Based on the lessons learned from storage-facility design, layout and optimisation, we have identified several typical pitfalls:
Treating technology and automation as goals in themselves
Basing decision-making on data analyses and objectives alone
Failing to fully consider future developments and trends
Failing to take a holistic approach
Failing to sufficiently involve employees in the process
Proper level of automation
Your key figures form the basis for deciding which processes need to be automated and which can remain manual.
We help you to define objectives for your storage-facility design and layout and implement the proper level of automation.
Storage-facility design and optimisation services
Our services include operational consultancy, as well as implementation in areas such as:
Structural development
- Localising and positioning facilities
- Greenfield solutions
- Optimizing existing set-ups
Layout
- Entry dock
- Bulk-bag warehousing
- Pick-and-pack warehousing
- Picking and sorting
- Packing department
- Consolidation and dispatch
- Assembly lines
Procedures and processes
- Organisational optimization
- Flow of information
- Operational analyses
- Process optimisations
- Resource planning.
Occupational health and safety
- Safety
- Ergonomics
- Indoor climate and lighting
Developing and selecting technical systems
- Automated pallet-and-crate warehouses
- AGV (automated guided vehicles) systems
- Picking and packing systems
- Automated warehouse systems
- Shelving systems
- Forklift trucks
- Packing lines
- Roller-conveyor belts
- Mini-loads, carousel systems, etc.
- Robotic solutions for palletising and picking
Management tools and storage management
- Warehouse Management Systems
- Barcode systems
- Pick-by-voice
- Pick-by-Light
- Visualisation
Official requirements
- Danish Working Environment Authority
- Fire authorities
- Technical and environmental administration units