5 tips: how to keep your warehouse in order

An organised and clear warehouse is one of the most important sources of optimal workflow. The right warehouse solutions can provide more efficient workflows and safe working conditions for your employees. But how do you get the most out of your warehouse? By asking yourself some basic questions about your warehouse conditions, you can create order out of chaos, and not least guarantee that you meet all hygiene and safety standards.

5 tips to improve your stock

With the following 5 questions and answers, we want to give you inspiration on how you can – with a few changes – create improvements that optimise your warehouse conditions in transport, storage, picking and daily maintenance.
With our tips, you can ensure that your warehouse and office is a safe, clean and organised working environment.

1) How can I move my goods around easily?

Moving boxes weighing hundreds of kilos isn’t something you just do in a jiffy. In a large warehouse, on top of that, you potentially have to transport your goods over a considerable distance. To protect your back as much as possible, you should use rolling aids such as:

• Pallet lifters: Pallet lifts are the best solution for moving your largest items or bulkiest pallets. With minimal effort, you can move the heaviest loads around your warehouse. See our range of pallet lifts here.
• Platform trolleys, shelf trolleys and cages: trolleys and cages on wheels allow you to move products up to 500 kg (depending on model) from A to B with ease.
• Sack trolleys: a sack trolley takes up little space in your warehouse and ensures that you can easily transport a whole stack of boxes at the same time. Our sack trucks can handle loads between 4 and 400 kg, depending on the model. See our full range of goods handling products here.

2) How do I store my products in an organised way?

Do you also have products lying around in your warehouse without a fixed place? A disorganised warehouse can be a nightmare, but luckily a few things can help. When choosing storage equipment, remember to consider what products you’ll be storing. For example, do you need extra protection from dust or dirt? Can products not withstand moisture or sunlight? An ideal solution for storage root is boxes and crates such as:

• Stackable boxes: stackable boxes can simply be placed on top of each other. This saves space and allows you to sort your products easily. Stackable boxes come in many sizes and if you choose the models with handles, like our modular boxes, you will have easy and quick access to the products inside the boxes.
• Storage boxes: with lidded storage boxes, your products are protected from dust and dirt. At the same time they are stable, which means they can be stacked, and if you choose a transparent model you can also easily identify the contents. Our version with an opening in the side gives you the additional option of quickly getting your products out of the box.
• Pick boxes: corrugated pick boxes are an environmentally friendly and robust solution for organising and storing your smaller products. With pick boxes, you can arrange your products by type or size, for example, which helps to keep things tidy.
• Shelving: once you have your boxes and crates in place, you can conveniently put them on a shelf. This way, you’ll maximise space savings and optimise overview. To complete this set-up, you can apply a label to each box and bin with information about its contents.

Have you been inspired? See all our storage solutions here.

3) How do I pack my products efficiently?

How to pack your products most efficiently depends on the products in question. How much space do you need? How many packages are packed a day? Below we’ve gathered some of our best products to optimise your packing process:

• Packing tables: with a packing table you can create optimal conditions for your packing. Depending on the size of the table, several employees can pack and wrap at the same time.
• Rolling racks: available in both vertical and horizontal versions and can hold packaging paper as well as bubble wrap. Models with wheels make it easy to transport the rack to different storage locations.
• Complete packing table: An all-in-one solution that can accommodate packaging paper, bubble wrap, multi-size cardboard boxes, packing tape, etc. This way you have everything you need at your fingertips.
• Stools, standing chairs and stepladders: Ensures your employees can easily reach products regardless of storage height and allows for different working positions.

4) How do I keep my warehouse clean?

Part of an organized, orderly and safe warehouse is hygiene. A clean warehouse helps set the tone for a good atmosphere on the floor between employees. So what does it take to keep your warehouse clean:

• Wiping paper and cloths: Wiping ensures that not only hands, but also surfaces and products can be wiped, reducing the spread of dirt in the warehouse.
• Waste bins and bags: never leave waste lying around but make sure it is disposed of immediately – And of course in a suitable waste bin. By choosing mobile bins with different coloured lids, waste sorting becomes as easy as pie and emptying no problem.
• Waste racks: waste racks make it easy to dispose of, for example, excess plastic or cardboard at the packing table. The opening makes disposal easy and the wheels make the racks mobile, so the filled sacks can be driven all the way to the containers.

5) How do I ensure the safety of my warehouse staff?

Safety should always be the first priority in a workplace! Therefore, make sure that your employees are always in a safe working environment. Of course, the type of security needed depends on the type of company, and we’ve found some examples of products that provide protection for your employees:

• Disposable gloves: Whether you’re working with raw, sharp, greasy or chemical products, it’s always safer to wear a pair of appropriate gloves.
• Safety knives: Utility knives are necessary in most warehouses. Make sure the hobby knives your employees use are ergonomically designed and have a protected blade, such as via automatic retraction.
• Safety glasses and dust masks: Protect your employees’ eyes with safety glasses and their airways with dust masks.
• Marking tape: Mark emergency exits, safety installations, stairs, etc. with marking tape. In this way you make the different areas of the warehouse clear to your employees.

Looking for even more inspiration? We’ve gathered the best products for warehousing, goods handling and logistics here.

Of course, you can always find the products in our catalogue, where you will also find everything in packaging for your warehouse, for shipping, for storage and much more.