Warehousing & storage
Buffer capacity that absorbs the gap between how your freight arrives and how it needs to leave, in automated hubs running around the clock.
Warehousing & storage Warehousing is usually sold as storage. It is really a buffer against variance, and that reframing changes how the building is designed.
Sized against variance, not volume
Inbound freight arrives in the shape your supplier’s production run dictates. Outbound freight leaves in the shape your customer’s demand dictates. Those two shapes almost never match, and the hub exists to hold the difference.
Design for peak volume and you get an expensive warehouse that is empty most of the year. Design for peak variance and you get something smaller, busier and considerably cheaper to run — which is what you are actually paying for.
The three numbers we design against
- Dwell distribution, not average dwell. A hub where everything sits four days is a different building from one where half leaves in six hours.
- Touch count. Every additional handling of a pallet is cost and damage risk. Two is good. Four means the layout is wrong.
- Dock-to-stock time, the clearest single indicator of whether receiving is working.
Automation follows from those numbers rather than preceding them. Where the dwell distribution is flat we still run conventional racking, and it outperforms.
Put a number on your warehousing & storage.
Send the lane, the volume and the receiving hours. You get a costed answer within two working hours.