Warehouse Design Definition | Numina Group Warehouse Glossary

Warehouse design is a service that optimizes order flow throughout your entire operations via strategic planning of your warehouse facility’s layout.

Why Organize Your Warehouse?

Optimizing your warehouse space provides many significant benefits, including increased efficiency, faster fulfillment rates, improved customer satisfaction, and higher retention rates. Additional benefits include:

Increased throughput

Faster processing times

Reduced risk of worker injury

Streamlined traffic flow

Reduced foot traffic

Fewer lost-time incidents and workers’ compensation claims

Reduced material and labor costs

Scalability

By using the right technology and automation solutions to optimize your warehouse, you can increase accuracy rates to 99.9% and overall profitability by 30% or more, while reducing labor costs by 30% to 70%.

Can Your Warehouse Be More Profitable?

Effective organization of warehouse design and layout have helped companies double, even triple their productivity per employee. Typical productivity gains of 35% to 50% have been achieved across the following industries:

Omni-channel

E-commerce

Consumer goods

Healthcare

Pharmaceuticals

Electronics

Third-party logistics

Getting Started on a Warehouse Improvement Project

Before improving your warehouse design and layout, an engineering study is recommended.

Warehouse engineering studies are detailed assessments that benchmark your current warehouse operations, identifies areas of improvement, and provides a detailed project plan to reach your optimization goals.

Engineering studies combined with value stream mapping can identify redundancies, gaps, disconnects, and bottlenecks in your warehouse layout.

Using the data from these tools, you gain a better understanding of improvements required to achieve maximum profitability and the fastest return-on-investment (ROI).

Different Types of Warehouse Design Services

Warehouse design and layout solutions focus on optimizing space, improving workflow, and enhancing efficiency. Warehouse design services may include:

Design and time studies

Product slotting and profiling

SKU velocity

Footprint requirements

Blueprint of optimized design for maximum profitability

Return-on-investment (ROI) analysis

Technology for an Optimized Warehouse Design and Layout

Numina Group offers solutions for optimized warehouse automation using real-time warehouse control powered by RDS™ WES-WCS, our top-tier warehouse execution and control system. Increase your throughput, capacity, and profit via the following solutions: