Your material handling facility design and operations should align with your company's objectives, helping you improve efficiency, reduce operating costs and enhance customer satisfaction. However, recognizing your warehouse's flaws and inefficiencies can be challenging without the right expertise.
You can get the most from your facility with warehouse engineering solutions from Siggins. With over 75 years of experience in the material handling industry, we're the experts you can trust.
Challenges of Warehouse Engineering
Warehouse design significantly impacts your company's operations and outcomes. There are many common challenges associated with warehouse engineering that distributors should look out for, such as:
- Poor warehouse layout: Inefficient warehouse layouts make poor use of the available space, resulting in dangerous working conditions and poor product accessibility. These facility environments lead to reduced picking efficiency and higher operating costs.
- Excess inventory: Having too much stock on hand can create significant issues for retailers, such as lack of storage space, increased expenses and reduced cash flow.
- Non-value-added activities: Non-value-added activities are unnecessary warehouse operations that do not bring value to the customer, such as excess handling, over-processing and reworking. These processes waste valuable time, reducing income and customer experiences.
- Inaccurate inventory accounting: Inaccurate inventory accounting can lead to product surpluses or deficiencies, resulting in higher storage expenses or lost sales.
- Labor inefficiencies: Manual labor accounts for over half of a warehouse's operating budget. Companies that don't implement automation technologies into their facilities endure unnecessary labor costs.
Our Warehouse Engineering Surveys
At Siggins, we help companies streamline their warehouse operations by improving their material handling processes through engineering surveys. When you come to us for assistance, our on-site engineering experts will identify problem areas and key points of interest in your warehouse, evaluate your current material handling practices and develop tools and processes to optimize your systems.
We perform our engineering surveys in two phases.
1. Process Evaluation
When you book engineering survey services with us, our warehousing, manufacturing and distribution professionals will come to your location and evaluate processes within your company's material flow and storage systems, using their fresh outlook and experience to determine your facility's operational efficiency. First, we'll perform an initial consultation and establish an agreement of scope. Then, we'll spend one to two days assessing your warehouse and systems amid normal business conditions.
2. Warehouse Engineering Solutions
After performing the on-site process evaluation, our team will develop a list of questions to ensure we have an accurate understanding of your process requirements. We may also perform a second facility assessment if your warehouse environment is more complex.
Next, we'll compile a detailed written report based on our process evaluation findings, which we'll complete within a week. This report will contain individualized recommendations for your warehouse and the level of urgency associated with each solution. Types of suggestions we offer include changes in:
- Process methods
- Ergonomic requirements
- Resource locations
- Equipment
- Software
- Safety
Optimize Your Warehouse With Warehouse Engineering Surveys From Siggins
You can ensure your facility maintains efficient operations with warehouse engineering solutions from Siggins. Our company is large enough to take on projects of any size or quantity and small enough to provide our customers with the individualized attention they deserve.
Contact us for assistance from our material handling experts today!
