Monday, April 27, 2015

Steel Shelving units: increase the organization and efficiency of your warehouse

Steel shelving is a very smart and simple way of organizing your warehouse. The most important thing about organizing a warehouse is to make sure everything is easy to find. Warehouses are large storage places which serve mainly to provide you with enough space to store large quantities of inventory, products you have in stock, and orders. Having in mind these three categories of stuff you mainly would place in warehouses, steel shelving comes like the most suitable option for organizing the space. Besides for large industrial warehouses, steel shelving can be used for smaller storage places as well, and even for offices, especially for organizing boxes with documents, for easy and organized reach.


Why steel shelving? Stainless steel to be more precise, is the best choice for steel shelving, because stainless steel doesn't corrode, rust or stain with water as ordinary steel does. So, steel shelving is your best choice for organizing the warehouse, as it doesn't react to changes in temperature and moisture.
Steel shelving has other advantages as well. Steel shelves are strong and stabile, so you don't need to worry if all those boxes you stack on them are going to stay on their place. Stainless steel has a kind of silver metalic color, which makes it very elegant, thus suitable for steel shelving in small storage places, or even at home or the office! An additional plus is that steel shelves are easy to clean.

For warehouses, steel shelving means long shelves divided into sections, and the entire system looks like a box without the walls. That's what makes it efficient, as you can walk among the shelves and have a clear view from both sides of where everything is. Furthermore, if you store orders, you will always be able to pick them fast and easy, since you are going to know where they are. For this purpose, it is important your shelves not to be stacked to the wall, as you are losing much valued access space from one side. From this point, steel shelving saves pickers a lot of time.


And most importantly, steel shelving is easy to setup. It doesn't require a lot of tools, other than a screwdriver and a rubber mallet, as these shelves don't have brackets which require much work and tools.

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