How Choosing the Right Retail Storage Solutions Can Improve Efficiency
- Maximize Floor Space: Effective retail storage solutions make the most of your existing footprint by utilizing vertical space, narrowing aisles, and organizing inventory to avoid overcrowding, eliminating the need for costly warehouse expansions.
- Improve Order Fulfillment Speed: Well-organized inventory makes it easier and faster for workers to locate and retrieve products, reducing pick times and speeding up order processing, especially critical during peak retail seasons.
- Enhance Visibility & Accuracy: With properly labeled and arranged retail storage systems, teams can maintain better control over inventory levels, avoid stockouts or overstocks, and minimize misplaced items or mis-picks.
- Increase Safety & Reduce Damage: Cluttered or inefficient storage areas increase the risk of product damage and workplace injuries. Streamlined, ergonomic storage helps maintain a safer, more organized environment for workers.
- Adapt to Seasonal Demand Changes: Flexible retail storage solutions can be reconfigured easily to accommodate changing inventory volumes or layouts, giving you the agility to respond quickly to trends and seasonal demand spikes.
- Support Omnichannel Fulfillment: Modern retail requires adaptable storage solutions that can support multiple order types, whether it's ship-from-store, BOPIS (buy online, pick up in store), or traditional in-store shopping.
Retail Storage Solutions for Omnichannel and eCommerce Fulfillment
UNEX retail storage solutions, like SpeedCell high-density storage, help retailers adapt to changing buyer trends and manage growing SKU counts. As demand shifts quickly, inventory can pile up, creating backroom storage challenges. SpeedCell boosts storage density by up to 60%, making it easier to handle overstock and fluctuating inventory.
Relocating stores or renting new storage spaces is often a costly and impractical solution to overcoming these everyday challenges. Overfull retail space is often the result of inappropriate storage solutions for the needs of the business. Instead, implementing scalable, reconfigurable modular retail storage solutions, like FlowCell flow racks, can adapt the facility according to the market needs.
Dynamic storage solutions, like SpanTrack carton flow, will maximize storage density and accessibility in retail spaces. By recovering floor space and creating efficient FIFO inventory flow, carton flow helps retailers speed fulfillment and replenishment, while staying competitive as new products enter the market and consumer expectations change.
Explore UNEX Solutions
SpanTrack Lane
SpanTrack Lane is an innovative carton-flow solution that drops into new or existing pallet rack structures to create an efficient, reliable, and durable flow system. Depend on a robust and sturdy solution for even the most active warehouses and assembly plants.
Key benefits of Spantrack include:
- Ensure FIFO inventory rotation
- Reduce worker travel time by up to 75%
- Optimized for product stacking
- Industry-leading 7-year warranty
SpeedCell
SpeedCell is a dynamic warehouse storage solution uniquely designed to save time, space, and money by using existing space within standard pallet racking. Its compact design can compress 200′ of rack or shelving into 40′ of highly organized space.
Key benefits of SpeedCell include:
- Transform vacant space into useable storage and increase density by 40-60%
- Create a highly efficient and accurate pick
- Reduce picker travel time by 80%
- Reduce labor costs by up to 40%
FlowCell
FlowCell flow racks are modular, dynamic storage units designed for a facility's unique operation. Our durable and portable workstations maximize efficiency and space for lineside storage, sub-assembly stations, supermarket racks, modular mobile carts, and more.
Additional Benefits Of FlowCell Include:
- Increase space utilization by up to 50%
- Boost production efficiency by up to 30%
- Keep the factory floor organized
- Minimize reaching and improve ergonomics by reducing injury and fatigue
SpanTrack Wheel Bed
SpanTrack Wheel Bed is a flexible carton flow solution that drops into new or existing pallet rack structures to create the ultimate gravity flow rack system for order picking operations, manufacturing facilities, and more.
Additional Benefits Of Spantrack Wheel Bed Include:
- Hex hub wheel design for optimal flow
- Store products with a wide variation in size and weight
- Increase flexibility for inventory slotting with 90% left to right bay usage
- Replenish inventory from the back without interrupting the process in front
SpeedCartt
SpeedCartt is a mobile, high-density picking cart solution that is reliable in the most demanding environments. Constructed from the same lightweight yet heavy-duty materials as SpeedCell, SpeedCartt improves efficiency and reduces labor costs.
Additional Benefits Of SpeedCartt Include:
- Increase pick facings
- Reduce travel times
- Increase order accuracy
- Pick multiple orders at the same time for maximum efficiency
Roller Rack
Roller Rack is a pre-engineered gravity flow rack designed to optimize efficiency, safety, and FIFO rotation in many settings. They are pre-configured, easy to assemble, and ready when your facility needs them.
Additional Benefits Of Roller Racks Include:
- Quick and easy to build and install
- Create bays seven times denser than pallet position storage
- Reduce picker travel time by up to 75%
- Improve access and visibility while reducing strain on workers
Pick Shelves
Tilted pick shelves significantly improve SKU visibility, resulting in faster order picking and more comfortable, precise picks for workers. Our easy-to-mount pick shelves are customizable and fit perfectly in racks and on workstations.
Additional Benefits Of Pick Shelves Include:
- Integrate slow movers into the pick line to save space and increase efficiency
- Eliminate the dead zone
- Accelerate pick rates
- Provide clear visibility and accessibility at the pick point and improve worker comfort