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Increase productivity by shifting pallets of racks in Warehouse
The magic words for productivity, that 80% of it comes from the 20% is correctly applicable for floor space in many warehouse and industrial operations. You can save ample space in your ware house while choosing for rack system with big open spaces.
You can choose racks for higher productivity items if your entire inventory does not get adjusted into the pallets. Could you move each-pick or case-pick operations off of floor pallets or static shelving into flow storage embedded in your racks?
The other goods that can be easily adjusted into the pallets without disturbing the entire set up are higher velocity items. For example by keeping free-standing products in flow storage instead of keeping them on the top of rack or on the floor you can save higher cost of packaging. This way you can increase picking productivity as well as accuracy. It puts away cartons from the ground, improves over ergonomics and frees up that floor space for other uses.
Further, completely removing rows of shelving by shifting their contents to flow storage in your racks you can find new space as well can increase packaging efficiency. This way a bit manipulation in shelving up to 20% can leads up to the improvement of productivity to the range of 80%.
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