When designing a new facility, our Warehouse and Distribution Centre Design Consultants have a detailed knowledge and understanding of what is actually required to implement, manage and maintain an efficient facility, and its subsequent processes.You want to ensure that your new facility, is designed, to operate efficiently, and effectively.
With extensive experience and expertise of designing and reviewing new and current warehouses and distribution facilities; the Specialist Logistics and Warehouse team at Gideon Hillman Consulting offer their top five insightful tips of what to take into consideration when designing a warehouse:
- Size and Space
Whilst designing a warehouse, it is important to factor in storage and processing space. Effective and optimum use of space can improve your process efficiency, and ultimately reduce your costs. - Site
Location is important when designing your warehouse. When choosing where to build, it is important to ensure that you place yourself somewhere which proves advantageous for receiving and distributing goods easily.
- Financial Decisions
One of the most essential elements to consider, which impacts greatly upon your company, is the financial aspect of a building warehouse. To ensure that you can accurately plan ahead, it is advisable to conduct an analysis of the potential workforce, and the accessibility of your proposed facility, to be able to make a critical decision about potential / actual profitability.
- Throughput and Technology
As digitisation of processes continues, Supply Chains are becoming increasingly integrated, and customers are becoming ever-more demanding. It is therefore imperative to ensure that you select the appropriate warehouse technology, predominantly a WMS to enable you to focus on throughput, and manage it effectively. - Flow of people and equipment
Warehouses are dynamic environments, in which the constant movement of people, robots and inventory is inevitable and very much required. It is important to consider the movement which will take place inside of facility, and plan your layout design, to emphasise efficient and effective movement of people and goods, which in turn should increase throughput and overall profitability.
Our specialist and highly experienced Warehouse and Distribution Centre Consultants all have significant Operational and Management experience prior to joining Gideon Hillman Consulting, a corporate member of UKWA (UK Warehousing Association) the leaders in Warehouse Consulting.
Contact the Specialist Warehouse and Logistics team today, to find out how we can support you throughout the design and build of a new facility, and / or optimise your existing one:
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