Warehouse Planning
Stacking high takes skill
A warehouse is more than the sum of its storage locations. As a central logistics hub, it must not only store goods safely but also handle complex logistics tasks and dynamic processes.
► Challenges of modern warehouse logistics
Whether rising sales volumes, broader product ranges or shorter delivery times: increasingly demanding warehouse tasks require scalable warehouse processes and capacities.
To respond to the growing e-commerce market, online retailers as well as traditional mail-order logistics providers must plan not only high-performance small-parts picking areas and packing lines, but also functional zones for returns, clearing and re-storage.
► Objectives of warehouse planning:
- Functionality and speed of logistics processes to meet customer requirements
- Sufficient capacity for future order volumes with long-term, modular expandability
- Flexibility of the warehouse system for changing order structures and product ranges
- Economic efficiency of investments and warehouse operations
- Feasibility and operational capability during construction and installation phases
► Our services in warehouse planning:
The design of modern warehouses and logistics centers is a core competence of LogistikPlan. Building on the results of the preceding target planning and warehouse concept development, we define all details required for the implementation of the warehouse system during detailed planning. We optimize capacity and throughput, functionality and safety. LogistikPlan is responsible for end-to-end detailed planning of
- warehouse processes, functions and logistics IT requirements
- warehouse areas and building requirements
- warehouse equipment, including tender-ready specifications
- personnel and qualification requirements
- investment and operating costs
► Warehouse equipment as part of warehouse planning:
► Planning of pallet racking systems and special racks
- Pallet racking systems
- Conventional high-bay warehouses
- Automated high-bay warehouses
- Mobile pallet racking
- Pallet flow racks
- Drive-in / channel storage
- Heavy-duty racking
- Special storage systems
- Long-goods and cassette storage
- Tool storage
- Wide-span shelving
► Planning of shelving systems and small-parts warehouses
- Small-parts container storage
- Manually operated container storage
- Automated small-parts warehouse (AS/RS) with stacker cranes
- AS/RS with robotic handling systems (shuttle, AutoStore)
- Material supply shelving (assembly / Kanban racks)
- Vertical lift modules and paternosters
- Drawer cabinets
- Shelving systems
- Conventional shelving
- Hazardous material shelving
- Mobile shelving systems
- Archive shelving
► Planning of mezzanines and safety equipment
- Mezzanine systems
- Free-standing mezzanines
- Rack-supported mezzanines
- Multi-storey installations
- Storage containers
- Warehouse safety equipment
- Impact protection (posts, corner guards, barriers)
- Crash barriers and guard rails
- Protective elements (push-through protection, rear mesh panels)
- Rack labeling
► Planning of conveyor systems and picking equipment
- Conveyor systems
- Mobile conveying equipment (forklifts, tow tractors, tugger trains)
- Stationary horizontal conveying systems (material flow systems or sorters, e.g. roller conveyors, belt conveyors, plastic chain conveyors)
- Pallet conveyors, container conveyors, carton conveyors, tray conveyors
- Overhead conveyor systems
- Roll cages and roll containers
- Automated guided vehicles (AGVs), handling or picking robots
- Stationary vertical conveying systems (lifts, elevators, paternosters)
- Picking systems
- Manual picking systems (e.g. pick-by-light, pick-by-voice, pick-by-vision, pick-to-bucket)
- Automated picking systems
- Sorting and handling systems for container or pallet handling
► Planning of load carriers and packaging systems
- Load carriers
- Pallets (PAL)
- Small load carriers (KLT)
- Large load carriers (GLT)
- Special load carriers (SLT)
- Containers (CONT)
- Wire mesh containers (GBO)
- Packaging systems
- Design of customized container and pallet units
- Packaging technology
- Packaging machines and systems for semi-automated and fully automated packaging
- Carton erectors and carton sealers
- Palletizers and depalletizers
- Stretch wrappers and strapping systems
► Results of warehouse planning
- Definition of expansion stages, storage volumes and performance indicators
- Definition of warehouse processes and material flows, picking strategies and picking technologies
- Definition of requirements for warehouse management systems, load carrier identification and labeling, as well as supporting information flows
- Selection of suitable load carriers, transport equipment and container cycles for different product groups
- Dimensioning and selection of systems for storage, transport and handling functions
- Detailed layout with balanced space requirements for all functional areas – from goods receipt to goods issue
- Requirements for building structure, including consideration of preliminary construction planning, reports and regulations (e.g. floor slab requirements, building services, heating, lighting)
- Specification of warehouse and conveying equipment as tender-ready documentation
