Warehousing - A Quick Overview

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Warehousing

• A Quick Overview

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Synopsis

• The Truth About Warehousing
• Safety Within A Warehouse
• How Warehousing Can Save Small Businesses Big
  Money
• All You Need to Know about Selecting the Best
  Warehousing Service
• Learn How to Find the Best Warehousing Service

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The Truth About Warehousing

• More than 145,000 people work throughout 7,000
  different warehouses, and the fatal injury rate
  in warehousing jobs is higher than the national
  average in almost all other industries.
• The bulk of injuries that occur in warehousing
  are due to unsafe use of forklifts (not following
  protocol), improper organization of products
  (stacking), failure to use protective equipment
  on your person, failure to follow proper lockout
  procedures, improper fire safety procedures, and
  repetitive motion injuries such as bending and
  lifting over 35 pounds.
• Many people overestimate how much their bodies
  can handle. Sure, lifting fifty pounds is easy.
  Once. Can you do it all day? Can you do it
  repetitively? These are important questions to
  ask yourself before applying for a warehouse job.
  They do have training courses for safety
  procedures, but over half of employees dont
  follow them assuming that these injuries
  couldnt happen to them. Sure, workmans comp is
  great, until you can never work again.

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Safety Within A Warehouse

• One being safe while operating or being around
  machinery. As a safety measure, certification is
  needed to drive a forklift. This is to help the
  individual whos operating the forklift, learn
  how to drive and operate it correctly. Some of
  these guidelines include training, driving safety
  and recommendations for speed, maintaining the
  safety of clearances, and any hazardous materials
  associated with operating a forklift.
• Another is hazardous material safety. Training is
  required to inform employees where the hazardous
  materials are located in the exterior and
  interior of a warehouse. You learn how to handle
  the materials accurately and what to do in case
  you come in contact. All hazard materials contain
  labels. Protective wear needs to available to be
  used when handling, being near and in contact
  with. Knowing the specifics on how to store the
  hazardous materials is also important.

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Safety Within A Warehouse

• Electrical wiring is said to be one of the
  leading causes of injury or damage. Warehouses
  should have ground fault circuit interrupters to
  minimize any risks. You should be trained on how
  to use extinguishers and what kind to use to put
  out any electrical fires. An evacuation plan
  should be known by all employees and have
  practice drills.
• The products within the warehouse are stored
  mostly on shelving. Be aware of whats being
  stored and how you are storing. Know when storing
  goods of what would be a harmful interaction with
  other goods. You need to be familiar with using
  safety measure on loading, stacking and removal
  of the goods.
• OSHA has all safety regulations, recommendations
  on storing and handling, list of possible
  interactions and what kind of first aide that
  would be needed, in case you come into contact.
  Its your employer's responsibility to go over,
  show where the OSHA regulations book is kept and
  any training of safety.

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How Warehousing Can Save Small Businesses Big
Money

• Flexibility keeps things easy-and drives down the
  cost.
• There are many warehouses with a great square
  footage that can accommodate the needs of many
  businesses at once-especially small ones. Some
  offer a rate that is not a fixed price but is
  rather a price for the amount of storage real
  estate youre interested in occupying in their
  warehouse.
• Look to warehouses that offer delivery solutions,
  too.
• There is an increasing desire for a reduction in
  the third-party handling of a business goods.
  This costs more money and eats up more time. As a
  solution to this and to best serve the businesses
  with whom they have a relationship, more and more
  warehouses are offering the option of
  full-service delivery.

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How Warehousing Can Save Small Businesses Big
Money

• Their company will pick up your product from its
  shipping arrival, warehouse it and then deliver
  it right to the customers door. This saves you,
  the business owner, money by taking one extra
  company to work with out of the equation. Thats
  one less person that your money has to go toward.
  
• A National Network Can Reduce Cost and Lead Times
• If the warehousing company that youre working
  with feeds into a national delivery network, then
  youve found a company that is saving you some
  cash. Reduced transportation costs will save you
  money while faster arrival times to the
  customers door will guarantee you a returned
  customer in the future.

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All You Need to Know about Selecting the Best
Warehousing Service

• You should check the layout of the warehouse.
  Even if a warehouse is large enough to offer good
  storage space, it may not be usable if its layout
  does not suit your needs. It may never fit the
  way you run your business.
• You should check the size of the storage space
  and see if it is enough for you to store
  everything effectively. Remember, you should look
  for space that is enough to store your products.
  It should not be too small or too large. If it is
  too large, you will not be able to utilize the
  available space.
• You should check the availability of different
  facilities when determining if a warehousing
  service is going to work for you or not. You
  should be putting your money on a service that
  provides you with easy logistical integration to
  ensure smooth deliveries. Moreover, the space you
  select should be accessible for lorries for easy
  transportation.

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Learn How to Find the Best Warehousing Service

• Make no compromises over location. You have to
  understand that spending so much money on using a
  warehousing service does not make any sense if
  you do not choose its location correctly. How
  careful you are when selecting your location will
  determine how efficiently you can store and
  transport your equipment and products. The best
  thing is to select a warehousing service that is
  in close proximity to transport routes, such as
  motorways, shipping port, and railways. It
  becomes even more important to select a right
  location when you are a small business. In this
  case, the warehouse you choose should be near
  your target market. For a large business, the
  selected warehouse needs to be large enough to
  meet the demand as conveniently as possible.
• Pay special attention to the overall size of the
  warehouse you select. The use of warehousing
  services makes no sense when you do not get
  enough space to store your equipment or products.

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Learn How to Find the Best Warehousing Service

• When checking the space, be sure to check the
  ceiling height of the warehouse you are going to
  select. It needs to be high enough to store your
  products in an efficient way, but keep in mind
  that if it is too high, it may only add to the
  costs of real estate, taxes, and utilities.
• Be sure to select a warehousing service after
  considering the duration of storage. Some people
  opt for public warehouses and make it work for
  them. You may want to do the same in case you
  need some storage space for seasonal inventory.
  These warehouses work effectively for short-term
  storage, but you may not benefit from these if
  you need storage services for an extended
  duration. You will be better off going for
  contract warehousing service in this situation.

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