However, upscaling your storage space will always come at a cost. Additional storage facilities must be paid for in terms of rent but you also need to consider heating and lighting costs, too.

How can storage solutions systems help you to augment the amount of storage you can use given the space you currently have available? 

Floor-to-ceiling shelving 

If you are not using all of the headroom available in your stockroom, then you are simply wasting space. All too often, businesses use racking and shelving units which operate at eye level and below. And yet, there is often plenty of room above. Floor-to-ceiling storage units may mean that you need to go up and down a set of steps to retrieve items but as long as your lesser-used stock is placed on the higher shelves, this should not cause an issue. 

Pallet racking 

For businesses that need to run inventories of their ever-changing stock position, there is no better solution than pallet racking. Warehouse Storage Solutions is a provider of pallet racking systems that suit all sizes of enterprise. You can use it to integrate your goods-in operation so deliveries go immediately into storage without being unpacked, thereby improving your operational efficiency no end. Systems like push-back pallet racking offer a great deal of flexibility no matter what the shape and size of the items you need to store happen to be. 

Mezzanine floors 

By installing a mezzanine floor in an industrial unit, you can virtually double your floor space without paying any extra rent. This can mean separating your offices from your warehouse operation fully. Not only should this lead to greater efficiency but to safer working conditions for administrative staff.