Spring cleaning tips to improve the appearance and practicality of your warehouse

Spring is the perfect time to sort out your warehouse and get everything in order. You simply cannot put off that warehouse clean any longer! If you have been staring at a pile of items that need sorting through or have been thinking of making improvements to your warehouse for a while now, there couldn’t be a better time to do it.

Not selling

Rather than ignoring the pile of stock you cannot seem to shift, you need to make a decision on what to do with it. Perhaps think about putting it on sale in order to try and attract customers to buy it. Alternatively you may want to think about giving it a shelf life. Many businesses find that they have a pile of damaged stock in their warehouse taking up valuable space. With damaged items you either have the option of offering them at a heavily discounted price or throwing them away.

Re-organising your warehouse

Sometimes the smallest changes can make the biggest difference in improving the efficiency of your warehouse operations. Moving pallets and storage racks to different locations in your warehouse can often make things flow a little better. Make sure you listen to your warehouse staff when making changes to improve your picking process, as they are the people who do the job on a daily basis. Your top selling products should be in the most convenient location to pick, with your least popular products being positioned further back.

Cleaning your warehouse

Clean warehouses tend to be safer, more organised and more productive. When doing a spring clean of your warehouse be sure to use a floor sweeper and cleaning products to remove the build-up of dust on the floor, pallet racks and any other shelving. It is also important to ensure that all debris and old packaging is thrown away or recycled. Simply leaving it lying around your warehouse could cause accidents as it may reduce visibility for forklift drivers or be tripped over by one of your employees. Your warehouse should be cleaned and tidied on a regular basis in order to keep it in tip top shape. Creating rotas and making cleaning products readily available are both great ways of encouraging your staff to keep their working environment clean and tidy.

Plans for the future

Whilst doing your spring clean you may find yourself thinking of how you can improve the efficiency of your warehouse in the long term. Automating your warehouse operations with pallet conveyors and picking systems is a fantastic way to improve productivity, especially for those businesses looking to increase capacity and become more competitive.