Sectors
Different pressures, different systems.
A fulfilment centre is judged on lines picked per hour. A cold store is judged on cubic metres chilled. The same racking rarely suits both.
- 01
E-commerce & fulfilment
Wide product ranges, small order sizes and brutal peaks. Storage design here is really pick-path design.
- Product ranges growing faster than floor area
- Orders of one or two lines, picked hundreds of times a day
- Peak volumes several times the annual average
- 02
Logistics & 3PL
Contracts change, clients come and go, and the racking has to survive being reconfigured every time.
- Contract wins and losses reshaping the floor at short notice
- Multiple clients requiring physical or systemic segregation
- Mixed pallet profiles in one building
- 03
Food & beverage
Date codes, temperature, hygiene and audit. The storage system has to satisfy the auditor as well as the operation.
- Strict stock rotation driven by date codes
- Chilled and frozen environments punishing steel and people alike
- Cleaning regimes that solid decking obstructs
- 04
Automotive
Awkward part geometry, heavy assemblies and line-side delivery windows measured in minutes.
- Part geometry ranging from clips to exhaust systems
- Heavy assemblies needing mechanical handling at the pick face
- Line-side replenishment on short, fixed intervals
- 05
Pharmaceutical
Validated environments, controlled-drug segregation and a documentation trail that has to survive inspection.
- Temperature-controlled and mapped storage zones
- Physical segregation for controlled and quarantined stock
- Strict first-expiry-first-out rotation
- 06
Retail
Backstock that has to be found fast, seasonal swings, and storage that sometimes has to look presentable.
- Stockrooms sized before the range grew
- Sharp seasonal peaks and rapid range changes
- Replenishment speed directly affecting availability
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These are the sectors where the storage problem has a recognisable shape. The approach, survey, model the options, show you the numbers, is the same whatever you store.
Next step
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