Warehouse equipment

How to organize a warehouse correctly?

The issues of organizing the storage of stocks are always one of the priorities. Therefore, this information will be useful not only for entrepreneurs starting their own business, but also for business owners who strive for continuous development of activities.

Modern warehouses are specialized or universal premises for receiving, storing, sorting, picking and shipping goods. Due to the wide range of the Ukrainian economy, both types of warehouses are popular. Accordingly, warehouse equipment of various types and purposes is characterized by a high level of demand. The warehouse equipment market in Ukraine is represented not only by offers from foreign manufacturers, but also has a significant share of solutions from domestic representatives.

Warehouse equipment: types and features

The primary role in the effective organization of the warehouse is played by the correct selection of warehouse equipment. The main complex factors influencing the choice of equipment for warehouses are: type of activity, warehouse parameters, characteristics of cargo flow, types of accounting, and financial capabilities. Based on these factors, warehouse equipment can be classified as follows:

•         storage equipment (racks, cabinets, silos, tanks and others);
•         lifting and transport equipment (loaders, stackers, trolleys, shuttles, conveyors and other types);
•         control and measuring equipment (scales, scanners, terminals and other types);
•         containers (pallets, boxes, containers etc);
•         warehouse automation systems (software and mechanized equipment).

Shelving equipment

In the Ukrainian market, the entire array of offers of shelving storage systems can be divided into two groups: specialized and universal. In turn, universal shelving equipment can be classified as follows: shelving racks, pallet racks, mezzanines.

Specialized warehouse racks are used for storing non-standard goods. Specialized solutions include: varieties of cantilever racks, frames, tire racks, self-supporting and modular warehouses.

Lifting and transport equipment

This type of equipment is found not only in warehouses but also at production and retail facilities. The main tasks of warehouse equipment are: acceleration of warehouse operations, increase in the level of safety of warehouse stocks, reduction of personnel maintenance costs, with an overall increase in labor productivity and an increase in the level of safety of warehouse operations.

The loading and transport equipment includes:

•         trolleys (hydraulic, electric, specialized);
•         stackers (hydraulic, electric, reach trucks);
•         loaders (electric, with internal combustion engine);
•         lifting tables (stationary and mobile hydraulic scissor tables, elevators, specialized platforms);
•         order pickers (pickers, logistics trains, etc);
•         specialized equipment (bucket loaders, tugs, tractors, cranes and other variations);

automation equipment (conveyors, elevators, carousels, shuttles).

Automated systems

Automation and robotization of modern enterprises is no longer something fantastic. Increasingly, business owners prefer mechanized and robotic order processing. This is not only due to the desire to reduce the influence of the human factor on logistics operations, but also because of the modern pace of functioning of sales markets.

The range of such equipment is quite wide, however, we can group it into functional classification groups:

•         Storage systems for goods in warehouses (mobile, gravity, shuttle racks, AS/RS systems, elevator and carousel storage systems).
•         Cargo handling and transportation systems (conveyor, sorting systems, elevators, monorail transporters, unmanned vehicles, sampling systems, control and measuring equipment and industrial robots).
•         Special integrated solutions (prefabricated, self-supporting, modular buildings).
•         Software (WMS, ERP, adaptive modules and applications).

Plastic containers and boxes

The key to the success of any sphere of management is the optimal organization of the working space in warehouses. Modern business representatives increasingly prefer plastic containers, as it has several advantages: light weight, but, at the same time, sufficient strength, long service life, simplicity of the disinfection process and low price.

At the moment, among a wide range of similar products, the following types can be distinguished: pallets, trays, containers, pallets, boxes, crates and garbage cans. A nice bonus is that some manufacturers offer a profitable system for replacing worn-out plastic containers with new models.

Advantages of working with Sklad Service

Besides a wide range of warehouse equipment and a range of logistics solutions, the main advantage of working with SSC is the ability to promptly get advice on the queries you are interested in. Also, our specialists constantly analyze and monitor trends in the logistics's development market and keep customers informed, which effectively affects their competitive advantages. We work with manufacturers of high-quality equipment in Europe and Ukraine, who provide warranty service for their products. Knowing the specifics of transportation of some types of equipment, Warehouse Service Kiev will help organize delivery to any locality in Ukraine.