Warehouse layout and storage optimisation

Optimal warehouse design raises your service level and provides operational savings. Moreover, warehouse optimisation in some cases make expansion unnecessary.

Where do you start defining the goals and requirements for your warehouse? On what do you base your choice? How should processes, layout and IT systems go hand in hand? How do you objectively and in a qualified manner choose between the suppliers' product range?

Knowledge is key! An understanding of the principles and processes that underlie efficient logistics is a good place to start. The work should always be based on a mapping of your company's product flow and preconditions, in order to have a basis for understanding current and future logistics challenges. The fundamental basis for creating an optimum concept is a combination of a solid data base, a strong knowledge of logistics / warehousing and employee involvement. The key figures must subsequently provide the basis for, which processes should be automated, and which ones should most approprately remain manual.

Typical pitfalls:

• Technology and automatisation become an end per se.
• Decisions are not based on data analyses and objectives.
• The future development is not sufficiently taken into consideration.
• Lack of overall consideration and involvement of key employees.

Langebæk Logistik can assist you and your organisation defining the objectives for warehouse design, create the right level of  automisation and prepare exact requirement specifications.

We provide professional and operational consulting (as well as implementation) within the following main areas:

Structural development for warehouse design

• Localisation and location of warehouse
• Greenfield solutions
• Optimisation of existing set-up (Brown field)

Warehouse layout

• Goods reception
• Operative / main store
• Pick and pack warehouse
• Picking and sorting
• Packaging
• Consolidation and shipment
• Assembly lines

Workflow and processes

• Organisation
• Information flow
• Resource planning

Working environment

• Safety
• Ergonomics
• Indoor environment and lighting

Technical systems

• Automated storage - pallets and cases
• AGV systems (driverless trucks)
• Picking systems
• Automated vertical lifts
• Trucks
• Packing lines
• Conveyors, roller conveyors/belt conveyors
• Mini load, carousels
• Robots for palletising and picking
• Clad rack high bay
• Etc.

Management tools

• Warehouse management systems (WMS)
• Barcode systems
• Pick-by-voice
• Pick-by-light

Regulatory requirements

• Working environment authorities
• Emergency management agencies
• Technical and environmental administrations

Related links:

Basic issues at warehouse establishment »

Tenders »

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