Warehouse Design & Layout Consulting
Hard to find Stock, Lack of Space, Inefficient Systems: These warehouse issues add costs and can strain a Supply Chain to breaking point!
We’re here to help you optimise your warehouse strategy so you can offer outstanding customer service and stay profitable.
The Challenges of Warehouse Management
The warehouse is often the first place to show visible signs of major supply chain issues in Small to Medium Enterprises. An inefficient warehouse could be setting up your supply chain and your business for failure, by causing excessive costs, poor customer service and unsatisfied customers, and that means less sales.
When warehouse management is not performing well, the typical impacts you’ll see are difficulties locating stock, a lack of storage space and increasing costs. We can help you identify and solve the underlying problems with a variety of different warehouse consulting services.
Warehouse Layout Consulting
Whether you’re moving to a new warehouse, or you need some help optimising your current space, we can help ensure the design and layout of your space is optimised. It’s important to make sure there’s no wasted capacity, especially if you’re serious about growth and want to cut down on excess costs.
Warehouse Operations Assessment
A warehouse operations assessment or audit can help identify the best location for your warehouse. It can also assess your current benchmarks and performance to see what inefficiencies you have and where you can improve, which ultimately can go a long to helping you cut costs and increase your profits.
What Can Warehouse Consulting Help With?
A Lack of Resources
A well designed warehouse allows you to make the most of the space and be more productive with the limited resources that you have. Our warehouse design projects focus on maximising the potential of the existing facility and deliver significant cost savings. We can help analyse your space to identify areas for improvement so your warehouse can operate efficiently despite the constraints.
Poor Warehouse Layout
Many existing warehouses often have inefficient layouts that hinder operations. Our layout design expertise can transform your warehouse site and optimise space and product flow. We work with you to create a bespoke solution from simple line marking to full redesign to reduce costs and increase efficiency.
Low Skill Level
A poorly skilled workforce will severely impact warehouse performance. Our consulting services include assessing your team’s skills and implementing targeted training programs, where we can help you develop a broad range of skills within your staff. This will allow them to meet the diverse warehousing requirements and adapt to new technology, which will increase overall operational efficiency.
Inadequate Systems
Outdated or insufficient systems can cripple warehouse operations. Our technology implementation services focus on integrating automation solutions that meet your needs and looking at the WMS you’re currently using. We evaluate your current operations and recommend the right technology to streamline processes, improve accuracy and support business growth so your systems evolve with your business.
Growth Overwhelming Existing Systems
When business growth outgrows your existing premises, it’s not always easy to know whether you should move or optimise your current space. Our consultants analyse your next warehouse needs considering location, size and layout, and we can give you the insight whether to enhance your existing operations or design a new warehouse is the most cost effective solution for your growing business.
Poor Customer Service
Customer service issues and inefficient warehouse operations go hand-in-hand. A well designed warehouse layout has a massive impact on order fulfilment speed and accuracy. Our consulting services focus on optimising your warehouse to improve pick rates, reduce errors and enhance inventory management to deliver better customer service and increased customer satisfaction.
SME Warehouse Audit
Our SME Warehouse Audit is designed to identify your major warehousing issues and provide you with guidance and a roadmap to better performance.
Conducted within 2-3 weeks at a cost of under $10,000 + GST, our approach will give you the following benefits:
- Warehouse Layout Audit, to review the storage and handling equipment and processes. The focus here is on maximising space utilisation and simplifying product flow.
- Warehouse Picking Audit, to review the picking methodologies in use, as well as the picking media. For example, discrete order picks versus wave picks (and others) or picking from shelves versus carton live storage. We’ll recommend what best suits your operation and the cost benefit of change.
- A tailor made Key Performance Indicator report to manage your warehouse ongoing.
- A customised roadmap to improve warehouse performance.
- A view on the suitability of in-house versus outsourced warehousing for your business.
- A 2-hour workshop with selected staff to explain and impart the performance improvement roadmap.
- Membership to our 12-month online Supply Chain Education Program (valued at $800) for up to four staff.