warehouse planning and design

WAREHOUSE SPACE PLANNING

Professional Design & Consulting Services

rows of pallet racks installed in a big warehouse

Optimize Your Warehouse

Managing a warehouse requires careful planning and organization, especially as your inventory or operations evolve. Our Warehouse Space Planning Services provide tailored solutions for pallet racking and storage to help you maximize space, improve workflow, and achieve your business goals.

The biggest consideration with warehouse planning is changing products. If your product changes, this can drastically affect how your space is used. Product weight is a big issue. The actual product being stored is a huge issue. We try to design racking around the product.

Primary Considerations for Warehouse Layout

Designing or redesigning a warehouse layout involves a couple of key elements:

  • Product Characteristics: The size, weight, dimensions, and fragility of the items being stored. 
  • Pallet Dimensions: Standard wood pallets are 40x48 inches, but we account for any variations in size or weight. 
  • Warehouse Flow: Mapping your standard operations, along with considerations for forklift pathways.

When to Consider a Warehouse Redesign

We’ve discovered that warehouses run into space issues when they come across the following:

  • Aisles or docks are congested with pallets
  • The current racking system is at 95% or greater storage capacity
  • You’re renting additional offsite warehouse space
  • The product mix has changed in size or weight.
  • You’ve moved to a new building with different dimensions (such as lower ceiling heights)

If you are experiencing these, it may be time to consider a warehouse redesign.

A warehouse of pallet racks and boxes and bags

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Our Process

Initial Consultation

Typically Craig will meet with you to go over what you are looking for and to understand your needs. We’ll look at product type, pallet dimensions, and operational goals, etc.

Site Visit

We’ll visit your facility to assess space, ceiling height, forklift requirements, and other critical factors.

Design Phase

Our pallet rack installers assemble your racking.

Quote

We provide a detailed quote.

Installation

Dakota Storage provides skilled labor to assemble the racking and storage on-site, especially for larger projects.

Pre-Anchor Review

Before anchoring the system down, we will do a walkthrough with the warehouse manager to ensure everything is to specs, including making sure shelving is level.

Why Work With Us?

Dakota Storage Products has been designing warehouse layouts all over the country for 30+ years. We will work with you to make the most of your space and build more efficient workflows. We have access to skilled professionals who can help execute the plan during the setup and installation process. Everything you need to have an effective warehouse is at Dakota Storage.

Get Started Today

Ready to get started? Contact us for a consultation.

FAQ

Weight, the product being stored, designing racking around the product.

In our experience, it doesn’t really cross a manager's mind. If this is a consideration, we talk about selective racking and engineered systems. 

Anytime the product changes significantly, especially in size/weight. Anytime you are moving to a different building (changing from 16ft ceilings to 12ft ceilings, etc).

USED PALLET RACKING & STORAGE EQUIPMENT

Select from used pallet racking and other storage products that we carry in stock for quick turn around time.

FAMILY OWNED FOR OVER 30 YEARS

Our family has spent the past three decades perfecting our mission to provide top quality warehouse and material handling products at competitive prices coupled with expert knowledge and friendly service. Our goal is 100% customer satisfaction!

Dakota Storage Products is Family Owned

FAMILY OWNED FOR OVER 30 YEARS

Our family has spent the past three decades perfecting our mission to provide top quality warehouse and material handling products at competitive prices coupled with expert knowledge and friendly service. Our goal is 100% customer satisfaction!

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