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One thing Los Angeles residents can agree on: No matter where you live or work, storage space always seems to be at premium. It fills up fast whether that is your apartment storage bin, your garage or your business’s inventory storeroom. When it comes to your business, that storage space can become a hindrance if it isn’t utilized properly. Here’s how to make it work.
Draw Out a Good Floor Plan
Even a small storeroom in the back of a restaurant should have a floor plan. This plan can be drawn up, laminated and posted for anyone to see. It should detail where things are on a shelf and which set of shelves. Think of it as a “roadmap” for your staff to follow. It will be very helpful for new staff to follow the map vs. constantly asking where something is.
Set Policies
A big business like Amazon has an automated warehouse with a massive data system that tracks every item. When supplies are low, the supply chain is alerted and arrangements are made to replenish. At lot of this happens automatically. Your business might not have a system like that in place but there can still be policies that establish a supply chain that works best for your company. When you need to reorder an item it crucial and every employee who works in the storeroom should know when to trigger those reorders.
Provide for the Staff
As best as you can, you should try to provide space for your staff to take breaks or hold meetings. You don’t want them sitting on crates in the alley eating their lunch. If a separate breakroom isn’t feasible, then a table with benches can serve the same purpose.
Utilize the Space
This pertains to the concept of what is valuable and what is a loss. Obviously, the bulk of your inventory should be items that are either being sold at a store or shipped to a customer. There will probably also be returned and damaged items that can’t be sold again. Those are the loss items but do you have to hold onto them. Once a record has been made of them, they should be consider rubbish and at that point you’ll want to hire Junk King Los Angeles for a rubbish clearing. Junk King can send over a dedicated team and truck that can handle a relatively large amount of rubbish removal. When the goal is to make more space in your inventory storeroom, you can count on Junk King Los Angeles to be a big help with rubbish removal.
