Warehouse Designs
IWS West, Inc knows that you need to get the most out of your investment. When it comes to warehouse designs, efficiency is the word. We know that your highest volume of product needs to be the most easily accessible. That is why we take the time to explore different options to ensure you not only know all your options but understand what will provide the best return on your investment.
Our main objective in designing your new or existing warehouse is to engineer and research on the front end so that there are not any surprise hiccups or costs during the implementation process. We are committed to the principle of measuring twice and cutting once to guarantee that your tailored warehouse design is scalable for five years of growth without losing any optimization or productivity.
Updating and moving a warehouse operation is an expensive and time-consuming process. While it may be tempting to rush this process, our experience has proven time and again that cutting corners at this critical juncture can cost you millions of dollars over the next five years. Yes, you may be able to do a quick redesign, but you’ll erase short-term and long-term profits by having to redesign your warehouse once a year to accommodate growth.
IWS West, Inc is committed to providing your company with a full-service design package. We stay in the background, you make final decisions, and you own the increased productivity and profit.
Features of an Engineered Facility Design
- Strategic partnerships
- Provide up to 3 separate drawings/3 base options
- Highly automatized
- Minimal automation
- An innovative synthesis of the two
- Seismic requirements
- High Pile Storage Analysis
- Strategic partnerships
- Provide up to 3 separate drawings/3 base options
- Highly automatized
- Minimal automation
- An innovative synthesis of the two
- Seismic requirements
- High Pile Storage Analysis
IWS West, Inc has designed and installed nearly every storage system available. Thus, we understand which design best supports overall throughput opposed to one that creates a negative effect for your facility.
Want to see our designs in action?
Take a look at our portfolio to see our gallery of warehouse designs.
Features of Our Evaluation
As labor and space costs continue to rise, it’s never been more important to understand the features, benefits, and pitfalls of a warehouse system before purchasing. IWS West, Inc can evaluate your facility to see how modern design can have a positive effect on your overall warehouse operation.
Below are six select features that are included in our evaluation:
Data-Driven Picking
We collect data on each item’s velocity, dimension, and weight. After crunching the numbers, inventory placement is determined so that products are picked, processed, and shipped with no wasted time or labor.
Product Replenishment
Overstock locations are key in order to best utilize space and control labor cost. After assessing inventory levels and placements, we streamline the overstock supply processes so the product is continually replenished without missing a beat.
Travel Cost – The Silent Killer
Studies have shown that on average 60% of the time an employee is picking orders they are traveling. If they are also wasting time searching for a product, this percentage goes even higher. Our designs minimize travel time, so your employees are spending more of their time pulling and processing orders rather than traveling and searching.
Space Utilization
Cost per square foot is the highest it’s ever been. Availability of that space is at a premium. Maximizing your space is critical for managing a productive and profitable warehouse. IWS West, Inc. is experienced in all storage technologies and levels of automation. This is important because it allows us to provide options specifically tailored to your facility and business demands. From those options, we help guide you to the solution that best optimizes your valuable space and labor resources.
Safety & Code Compliance
Safety is considered at every juncture of our services. We understand that workplace injuries harm everybody. Your valued employee loses the ability to support their family. You lose productivity and incur rising insurance costs and disability claims. Warehouse processes stop and time is lost.
Our designs place safety at a premium to promote a safe and productive work environment. Our design team is expert at navigating the complex city, county and state compliance codes that are under government scrutiny. We excel at implementing warehouse designs that are code compliant with our team of structural and fire engineers to ensure that your system stays in code compliance.
Storage Solutions – Holding Costs
Also called “carrying cost,” holding cost is a dollar amount that each storage location will cost over a given period of time. When properly designed, the right storage system will save a facility millions of dollars over a 5 to 10 year period. With the wrong system, those holding costs can leave you millions in the red. Our expertise with holding cost analysis gives our clients the truest ROI on storage system solutions.
Do we sound like a good fit?
Let us know! We would love to get in touch and discuss your project.