Enterprises in the process of purchasing storage racks will encounter many problems, how can we procure warehouse storage racks suitable for the enterprise’s own warehouse? How to save storage costs for the enterprise, usually this is the most concern of the enterprise’s procurement staff.
How do purchase racks suitable for their own warehouses?
1, the purchaser must describe their needs clearly, and clear procurement of storage racks to achieve the function and objectives.
What is the current storage situation in the warehouse of the enterprise? What are the main goods that need to be stored and their volume and weight? What kind of functions and effects do you hope to achieve after purchasing the new storage racks, etc.? These issues must be clear to the procurement staff. If you are not clear about your own needs and blindly follow the recommendations of the rack company, it is likely to lead to a mismatch between the storage equipment you purchase and your own needs. It is recommended that you can use analysis tools, through structured analysis, you can be related to the operation and the amount of work between the various operational modules clearly described and calculated, so that business procurement staff will be able to clearly grasp the clear needs of the enterprise warehouse on logistics equipment.
2. Prepare a detailed solution for your warehouse equipment.
Enterprise procurement needs to be clear after the procurement staff needs to prepare detailed warehousing equipment solutions. In the equipment planning process, the aim is not to determine the detailed specifications of equipment solutions, but to determine the general classification of equipment. For example, for racking-related equipment, the first solution to be developed is based on the classification of pallet racking or cantilever racking; then, in the fourth and fifth steps of the equipment planning and selection process, more detailed specifications such as size and other detailed data, such as galvanized or surface spraying processes, are developed. One thing that has to be remembered is that the development of storage solutions can be difficult for people who are not in the industry. We have to pay more attention to the accumulation of knowledge about the various types of logistics equipment. For more complex system requirements, the use of professional storage planning consultants is a common practice worldwide.
3. Evaluate the cost of purchasing warehousing equipment.
Every company wants to be able to save as much as possible on procurement costs, so an economic assessment of the procurement options is essential. The first step in the economic evaluation of a storage solution is a cost calculation. Usually, costs are divided into two categories: investment costs and annual running costs. The most common investment cost is the purchase cost of the equipment. The annual running costs are the costs that are incurred over the course of the use of the equipment. Typical annual running costs include the salaries of logistics operators, equipment maintenance costs, taxes and insurance costs.
4. Choose a professional supplier of storage equipment.
Once a suitable supplier of storage racks has been selected, the next task is to state the detailed specifications of the racks to be purchased. Usually, the important work at this stage is to explain the detailed specifications of the shelves, size, load-bearing capacity and other specific project details.
Below we add some details of the products to look out for when purchasing racking.
Installation services are usually important in racking procurement. According to the characteristics of rack procurement, we suggest that users pay attention to the following issues.
1, choose the right type of racking.
To choose the right type of racks according to the specifications and characteristics of their own goods, so as to improve the utilization rate of the racks, while improving the efficiency of the use of the warehouse. Suggest that the user in the design of the warehouse racking system, more consultation with professional rack manufacturers.
2, pay attention to the rack construction period.
Most pallet racking belongs to the processing of custom-made, customers need to set aside time for design, production, transport and installation when purchasing. These times are determined, we recommend that customers communicate with the shelf manufacturer in advance, and then make reasonable arrangements according to their own needs.
3, pay attention to the conditions of the rack installation site.
Now many warehouse racks project the warehouse is still under construction when the need for rack installation, in fact, the installation conditions do not have when the rack installation construction is required, often resulting in the rack installation construction period can not be controlled, rack installation construction quality can not be guaranteed and other hidden problems. After all, the last process of racking products is rack installation, a good construction environment is an important guarantee of rack product quality and duration.
4, choose high-quality racking products.
Users often think that shelves are relatively simple, shelves are made of steel should not have any problems, so in the choice of shelves, often only consider the cheaper price. In fact, steel also has a certain limit of strength, beyond the limit the shelves will collapse, causing serious accidents. The world has seen many incidents of shelves collapsing due to inadequate materials, bringing huge economic losses to users and some even causing serious personal injuries. Each component of Xinmiao’s shelves is subject to strict factory inspection to ensure that the products sent to customers are safe, reliable and of high quality.
As the technical information submitted by these unprofessional shelf manufacturers is often not significantly different from other manufacturers, and their prices are cheaper, users tend to give priority to such manufacturers from an economic point of view.
The reason why these manufacturers can repeatedly succeed is mainly that the purchaser itself on the quality of the shelves lack appropriate means of detection and monitoring indicators, and the shelves product problems in the short-term use and will not be immediately exposed.
Here we provide some simple methods of judgment to the users of warehouse storage shelves, in the hope that it will help the user to choose the warehouse shelves.
1. the main cost of shelves from the raw materials, the current users in the purchase of shelves will be mentioned when the use of Baosteel Q235 or the same type of quality steel, and in the actual supply, bad suppliers often provide no certification of small steel mills of poor quality steel. Here we can identify them by the following methods.
Firstly, you can ask the supplier to provide the corresponding steel warranty, and confirm whether the supplier is purchasing this material through the telephone number on the warranty; secondly, you can commission an authoritative testing organization to test the mechanical properties of the steel.
Some manufacturers may make a fuss about the amount of steel used, which may appear to be cheaper, but is not. These manufacturers will mislead users in the following ways.
(1) Presenting the idea to the customer that the wider the front of the column, the better the strength of the column, in order to mislead the user into ignoring the thickness of the material and the width dimensions of the side of the column. In fact, in most cases, the force of the column is mainly related to the cross-sectional area of the column. Only when the height of the floor is too high and the column may produce stability problems, should the influence of the cross-sectional shape be considered.
(2) The thickness of the material is given to the user in accordance with the 10% deviation limit of the domestic standard.
In fact, with the current steel manufacturing technology of large steel mills, such a large deviation is extremely rare, and if this happens to a large amount of steel in a project, the structural stability of the whole shelf will be greatly affected. We suggest that the user can directly ask the manufacturer to provide a warranty and to test the mechanical properties and chemical composition of the material at the same time and compare it with the warranty.
3. In more complex racking structures, some manufacturers, in order to reduce costs, provide materials to meet the requirements in the main materials that users are more concerned about (such as beams and columns) while cutting corners on other structural materials that users tend to ignore (such as connectors and ties).
In fact, these structures are important components to ensure the strength, stiffness and stability of the racks, and cutting corners on these materials will result in the overall load-bearing strength of the racks not being guaranteed, especially for Lee Warehouse NZ racks with seismic requirements.
In order to enable users to buy racks of guaranteed quality, users can request rack manufacturers to provide rack mechanics calculation reports. Of course, some manufacturers may submit false reports to customers in order to obtain orders, so customers can find an authoritative third-party organization to identify them.
