Stock and warehouse

What makes this one different

• Racking is the job, not the stock. Boltless and pallet racking has to come down in a controlled sequence, travel flat, and go back up plumb and braced. Putting racking back up badly is the one mistake on this list that can hurt somebody, and it is the reason we will not simply hand it back to you in a heap.

• You are probably still trading. Almost nobody can close the pick face while the warehouse moves, which means sequencing: the slow-moving stock goes first, the fast-moving stock goes last, and the picking carries on in a shrinking corner of the old unit until it does not have to.

• Stock has to stay countable. A move is the easiest time in a company’s life to lose stock, and the only defence is that what left the old unit is identifiable when it arrives at the new one. That is a labelling discipline, and it starts before the first pallet moves.

• Loading bays and dock heights vary wildly across the CR4 estates. A unit with a proper dock and a unit with a roller shutter at ground level are completely different jobs with completely different equipment, and a quote that has not established which is a guess.

What we do about it

• Survey the racking as a structure — type, height, beam levels and bracing — and quote its dismantling and rebuild explicitly

• Sequence around your pick face so trading continues as long as it needs to

• Label to your own stock references rather than to ours, so nothing has to be translated at the far end

• Establish dock height, shutter width and yard turning circle at both units before quoting