Regardless of whether you’re a brick-and-mortar business, manufacturer, wholesaler, retailer, fabricator, or distributor, protecting your inventory is critical to maintaining a healthy bottom line. It’s not just the cost to finance that inventory. It’s not just the cost of damage, obsolescence, or even pilferage. It’s about ensuring that the products you have on your shelves are protected and in good condition.
Properly protecting your inventory requires excellent material handling, storage, and retrieval processes. However, it also requires having a durable, high-strength pallet racking system that can support the weight of your inventory while providing sufficient spacing.
So, what is a pallet racking system? More importantly, why is having a pallet racking system so important?
The Durability of Pallet Racking
Simply put, a pallet racking system is a storage location for inventory, raw materials, work-in-process (WIP) parts, and finished goods. A pallet racking system is made of high-strength upright and horizontal steel beams alongside industrial-strength fastening solutions, connectors, braces, gauges, trusses, and locking devices.
A pallet racking system can include a stand-alone single-level racking solution or include multiple levels as well as having pallet-flow, drive-in, push-back, and double-row steel racking. Deciding which pallet racking system to choose requires an experienced pallet lift New Jersey company that can design, install, and maintain your pallet racking system.
Why Are Pallet Racking Systems Important?
There are several reasons why pallet racking is the ultimate material handling and storage solution. First, the right pallet racking system protects your inventory from damage and ensures easy retrieval of parcels and pallets while also ensuring ample space for forklifts to maneuver, place, and retrieve pallets.
Second, a pallet racking system is made from high-quality, high-strength, durable, impact-resistant steel. This is critical to ensuring the right load-bearing capacity for each level of the racking system. The load-bearing capacity of the steel must not only support the weight of parcels or pallets on an individual level. It must ultimately support the additional weight of the levels above.
Third, not only do pallet racking systems protect your inventory from damage, but they also protect your warehouse employees from accidents, trips, falls, and musculoskeletal injuries. Handling, storing, and moving inventory can be dangerous and extremely problematic. Using the wrong type of racking not only risks damaging your inventory but it puts your warehouse employees at risk of falling parcels. This is why today’s pallet racking systems must be OSHA-compliant and safe for use.
Finally, pallet racking systems allow for the best use of your warehouse’s square footage. The costs of maintaining inventory are typically broken down by warehouse square footage. While the costs always include financing, damage, pilferage, and obsolescence, they also include the cost of renting warehouse space and insurance, among other costs.
Having too large a warehouse because of poor racking and storage practices is a waste of money. However, the right pallet racking installation and maintenance partner can ensure you’re maximizing your warehouse space and ensuring seamless movement of parts, pallets, and materials.
Full Integration and Validation
At Storage & Ergonomic Equipment Company, we provide numerous pallet rack installation services in New Jersey services to countless industrial and commercial businesses. These installations ensure that warehouse employees have easy access to inventory using a forklift. These pallet racking systems improve warehouse operations and lower costs related to inventory damage while ensuring improved workflow and fewer work-related accidents.
Our in-depth knowledge of different pallet racking system manufacturers, numerous different industries, and uses – as well as our ability to design custom pallet racking solutions while also providing inspections – ensures our customers have a reliable partner whose installation team is AVETTA and ISNET certified.
If you are a New Jersey company that wants to improve how you manage your inventory with proven, well-made, and well-designed pallet racking systems, contact us now.
