Preparing Your Warehouse for Efficient Packing

When you are fulfilling many orders for a product, you need to be able to package the product quickly in order to keep up with the demand from your customers. Being able to pack a massive number of products in a short period of time can be hard to do on a small scale. Instead, you should consider renting a warehouse and creating a packing center for your product.

When you create a packing center, you need to be sure that the warehouse is properly set up to make packaging and distribution as efficient as possible. The following guide walks you through a few suggestions to use to ensure that you are able to pack your products as efficiently as possible.

Conveyor belts allow items to easily be moved from one place in a building to another place within the building without anyone having to carry those items anywhere. You can have powered conveyor belts installed or belts that have rotating metal bars on them that roll as items are pushed across the belt from one person to another person.

When choosing the conveyor belts, you need to know how long you want them to be and how wide you need them to be. Consider the products that you are having packaged and how large the packaging is to ensure that the items can move on the belts with ease. Have Packing Stations Created in the Warehouse

Packing stations are small stations that can be situated throughout the warehouse for people to use to pack the products into specific packaging. You can have one packing station for having the item put into its packaging and then another station in place to put the items into boxes for shipment.

The packing stations will have storage built into them so that people can have everything they need to package items on the spot. This will make the packaging much more efficient because people will not have to go from one place to another to get the materials that they need.

When you have a large number of items that need to be stored, place them on large pallets and then store the pallets rather than storing each item on a shelf individually. When you use a pallet, you need to be sure that the items will not fall when the pallet is lifted. Shrink wrap around the edges of the pile will ensure everything stays secure.

A shrink-wrapping station allows one or two people to be responsible for the shrink wrapping so that they can become proficient at it and you can rest assured it is done properly each time. If the items are not shrink-wrapped properly, they could fall off of the pallet when it is lifted into the air and someone could be injured.

When it is time to store the large piles that are created on the pallets, pallet racks can become handy. Pallet racks are designed to allow you to make the most of the vertical space that is available in the warehouse and keep everything secure and organized at all times. You will need to use a forklift or pallet jack to lift the filled pallets onto the shelves.

If you want to properly prepare a warehouse for your packing needs, contact Lone Star Pallet Rack. We have all of the materials you will need to make packing your products as efficient as it can be. We will even take care of the set up for the equipment so you can start using it right away.