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Organised storage can enhance productivity and provide the key to your success. While storage is crucial all year round, September is traditionally the month when manufacturers can face challenges.
Being well organised in the autumn directly impacts your success in the months ahead, as various factors can affect productivity and businesses must work around them.
Autumn challenges
Autumn is typically a season when your business may start to slow down after a busy summer period, so it can be an ideal time for evaluation and consolidation. Fine tune your products, evaluate your strategies, review your business performance and focus on keeping a strong relationship with your client base.
For many sectors, it can mean adapting storage space to meet the temporary changes that September brings. For example, if you manufacture seasonal items, you’ll need to adjust your storage capacity accordingly.
Manufacturers of gardening products, Halloween or Christmas items, sporting equipment, school products and other seasonal goods will experience either a slowdown or a surge in productivity. Temporarily decreasing or increasing production means having the relevant flexible storage capacity to meet current and future needs, including the end-of-year higher demands of Christmas.
Inventory audits are also typically carried out in autumn to help small businesses calculate accurate cashflow and profits to determine your bottom line. No manufacturing business should ever end up with excess or not enough stock.
Keeping your business running like a well-oiled machine means using inventory audits to optimise your receiving and shipping operations and reduce unnecessary costs. However, they can create challenges when employees are tied up completing targeted counts of stock items on a rotating basis, maintaining accuracy while avoiding the disruption of day-to-day operations.
Benefits of organised storage
Organised storage directly contributes to increased productivity and efficiency in manufacturing in terms of time saving, safety and workflow optimisation. It enables the quick and efficient retrieval of products from the storeroom or warehouse, reducing production downtime and ensuring workflow continues to run smoothly, even during times of potential disruption.
Using high quality industrial storage suited to your business needs also helps to reduce the risks of accidents and injuries in the workplace by providing a safe environment. Having a place for everything in a well organised and tidy stockroom means employees are less likely to trip and fall over products piled up on the floor - one of the biggest causes of workplace accidents, according to the Health and Safety Executive.
Storing items correctly reduces the risks of objects falling and causing injuries, while it makes it easier for employees to find and reach products with less chance of hurting themselves, especially when working at height.
Storage products to boost manufacturing efficiency
Solent Plastics has years of experience in producing high quality storage products for the manufacturing sector to help boost efficiency and therefore productivity.
Our 80kg extra-deep heavy duty five-tier plastic shelving is a market leader in the manufacturing sector. This modular heavy-duty shelving, with its 60cm extra deep design, is ideal for storage areas where shallow shelving is unsuitable due to the size and shape of the products.
The heavy 80kg shelf load capacity is made for commercial use, with the five shelf tiers enabling you to store upwards, rather than outwards, saving on floor space and providing a total load capacity of 400 kg.
At 790mm long x 580mm wide x 385mm high, the unit is easy to assemble, with no tools needed. This means your storage capacity can be flexible and adaptable to seasonal changing needs. The shelving can be erected when required and then disassembled and placed in a space saving flatpack ready for future use.
Our 320-litre heavy-duty wheeled plastic storage tank is watertight and can be drilled and fitted with a drainage bung. Ideal for the manufacturing sector, it is fitted with two fixed and two swivel 100mm castors, so it’s easy to move around even when full.
Moulded in heavy-duty food grade polyethylene, it is suitable for environments with a -30°C to +80°C temperature range, with a hygienic, snag-free, easy-to-clean design.
For bulk manufacturing storage, our 900-litre extra-deep pallet box has four feet on the base for forklift or pallet truck entry. Manufactured from industrial quality, scratch-resistant HDPE, it’s suitable for bulk storage in a commercial manufacturing environment.
Designed for rigorous use, its spacious internal dimensions are 1,110mm long x 910mm wide x 820mm high, with the solid sides and base and smooth inner and outer walls enabling easy cleaning.
An easier life
Using the correct storage can make all the difference to your day-to-day operations, so it makes sense to utilise the best solutions available on the market.
If you need any help sourcing the most suitable storage options for your manufacturing processes, speak to the plastic storage solution experts. A 3rd generation family-run business, established in 1928; Solent Plastics has the answer to all your streamlining, storage and organisation concerns. Try us and see!