Running a busy retail business, especially in busy holiday seasons, means that you will want to organise your storeroom with maximum efficiency.

Having a well organised storeroom can provide real rewards for your business in terms of sales performance, inventory accuracy, speedy restocking, and ultimately, customer satisfaction.

Rack King provides shelving solutions and our storage shelving is easy to assemble and delivered nationwide within 3 days to optimise your storeroom storage and support you to effectively manage your retail business inventory.

Why retail storeroom efficiency matters

It’s easy to get caught up in the day to day pressures and demands of running your retail business but there are costs attached to having a poor stock room layout and having your stockroom poorly organised can impact on profits.

Retail storeroom efficiency matters and has the following benefits:

  • Reduce inventory loss
  • Less inventory damage and unsold stock
  • Enhance employee safety and productivity
  • Improve customer satisfaction
  • Easier ordering and inventory management

Reduce inventory loss

An organised storeroom can help to minimise shrinkage inventory loss where items are misplaced or stolen. It is much harder to keep on top of stock taking and keeping track of your stock or inventory when your storeroom is cluttered.

Less inventory damage and unsold stock

Items, especially fragile items, can get lost in a cluttered space and can easily be damaged, meaning fewer sales for your retail business. Likewise, short date or seasonal items, especially, can be mislaid meaning that they are left unsold after their relevance has passed.

In a pressured retail environment where every sale impacts your business’ bottom line, investing in a well organised storeroom can pay dividends.

Enhance employee safety and productivity

Avoiding clutter, blocked aisles and exits, and trip hazards are all key to ensuring the health and safety of employees. This results in fewer hazards and a safer working environment for staff.

Less staff time spent searching for items, less mispicks where staff choose incorrect items, and quicker stock takes, are other benefits of a streamlined and organised storeroom.

Improve customer satisfaction

To maintain efficiency and to maintain smoother operations on the shop floor, employees need to be able to move around freely and locate items quickly. This has obvious knock on effects for customer satisfaction as required items will be more readily available for perusal, try on, and purchase.

Easier ordering and inventory management

Implementing a system such as FIFO, first in first out, and knowing which items need restocking is greatly simplified when your storeroom is organised. This leads to less waste and also makes it easier to ensure that stock is always available.

Use of stock management technology will also increase your retail business efficiency and is supported by good storage strategies in the retail storeroom.

Why choose Rack King shelving solutions?

Rack King longspan shelving and industrial shelving are ideal for your retail storeroom and offer quality shelving solutions for manual picking of non palletised items.

Longspan and industrial shelving offer high quality, durable shelving in various sizes and configurations to fit the needs of your retail business.

Longspan shelving is adaptable with longer length steel shelves attached to horizontal beams offering accessible storage for high volumes of items. Longspan shelving comes in a variety of frame heights, widths, and depths and with different numbers of shelves per unit for maximum storage.

Industrial shelving is high grade, heavy duty, and durable shelving that is scalable if your business is expanding and requires additional storage for inventory. Industrial shelving can take heavy loads for bulky items and comes in a variety of sizes.

How Rack King shelving can benefit your retail business.

Longspan and industrial shelving is suitable for a variety of uses and offers many benefits, allowing you to get on top of your storeroom organisation. Here are some benefits of Rack King shelving and tips for organising your storeroom:

Rack King shelving solutions come in a range of widths and with varying numbers of bays to enable you to use the space available in your storeroom effectively even where space is tight.

Sketch a floor plan to see how units might best fit into your space, you could have more space than you think.

Using adjustable shelving or mobile shelving will allow you to change your storage arrangements as stock levels change or to accommodate different types of items, such as large or bulky items.

More flexible shelving systems also allow you to move shelves around as your needs change and your business expands. Rack King industrial shelving comes in starter bays and additional expansion bays so that you can scale up your storage where required.

In a retail storeroom, the available space may be quite small but thinking vertically means that you can maximise your stockroom’s vertical capacity.

Rack King longspan shelving comes in heights of up to 2.42 meters to use vertical space where items are picked manually.

The most picked items need to be the most accessible to ensure that all of the most popular stock can be picked quickly and to minimise the chance of unsold stock.

If you have a deeper space then you can put shelving back to back with seasonal items that are not currently required at the back. Rack King industrial shelving is open at the back for easy access and can be used back to back for storage of items that are required less frequently or out of season.

Decide on an organisational strategy or categories for stock and organise your retail inventory in categories that are relevant to your type of stock.

It can be a good idea to align items with the way they are arranged on the shop floor or another system of organisation may be more relevant to your business. Rack king longspan shelving comes at widths of 2 metres and 1.2 metres so that you can customise your shelving to suit your stock.

It can also help to subdivide types of stock or create zones for different functions if necessary, such as receiving, packing, and for returns.

Label your stock categories, ideally in clear plastic bins, and ensure that all staff know the layout and locations of all items in the stockroom.

Rack King longspan shelving and industrial shelving are easy access for visibility and ease of picking to complement your labelling system.

Spend time during staff induction to ensure that all staff know how the storeroom is organised, how items are categorised and where items are located.

In order to maintain the efficiency of the storeroom organisation system and storage procedures you have created, it is really important to regularly clean and declutter your storeroom.

Rack King mobile longspan shelving is on castors for ease of movement to facilitate easier clean up of your retail storeroom.

As well as attending to anything that might affect the health and safety of staff, such as trip obstacles or clutter, you can use the opportunity to identify any damaged or unsold stock and consider strategies for dealing with these items.

Rack King storage solutions for your retail business

A well planned and organised storeroom is the backbone of your retail business, enhancing efficiency and providing a safer work environment.

Rack King high quality and versatile shelving solutions are the answer to your storeroom’s clutter issues and will improve your inventory management and increase customer satisfaction improving the bottom line for your retail business.

All Rack King products are EU certified for quality and durability, are easy assemble with no nuts or bolts, and can be delivered in three days nationwide from our Dublin 18 showrooms. Check out our range on our website or call us and discuss your needs today.

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