Usefulness of The Warehouse Layout Design Standards

Usefulness of layout design in Warehouse

1. An effective warehouse layout design can help to optimize the efficiency and space utilization.

With the 5 main areas of operations, goods/product can move in swiftly from the unloading area, into the main storage; picker can also pick goods from the picking area. Congestions are minimized and these help to increase the efficiency of the different tasks in the warehouse.
By storing goods/product with a plan to locate them neatly; more space can be utilized; either horizontally or vertically.

2. There would also be higher labor efficiency and lesser errors.

A layout plan would minimize the movement of the employees and the time used for moving can be used to do other operations or work; thus increasing labor efficiency. A neatly planned warehouse would have lesser errors such as picking the wrong item or storing the wrong goods in wrong place.

3. Safety and security of a warehouse would most likely be enhanced through an effective layout because employees would know where the walking spaces are and no goods would be left lying around.

Space Constraint
It is very important that when you plan the design layout of the warehouse, you need to think how to make it that the use of space is at the optimum level. It is because that by making the best use of space, you will be able to have a higher amount of inventory storage. Making the best use of space does not only mean the floor areas which is horizontally but also vertically. By maximising the use of space can also help to reduce the total cost of the warehouse therefore it important to take note of the usage of space when designing the warehouse layout.


Constraint of the 5 main areas
Beside making best use of the space, when we design the layout, we should also consider where are we going to locate the different areas of the warehouse. (Goods in, Main storage, order picking, marshalling, goods out) It is because by considering this factors, you will be able to minimize the movement and congestion in the warehouse and therefore, the rate of accident in the warehouse would also decrease. One example is the separation of the main storage and the order picking area.