Does Your Warehouse Make the Grade in Protecting Your Goods?

Your finished goods are your company’s bread and butter. If you can’t sell what you’ve invested a lot of time, effort, and money to make or acquire means your business takes a huge hit. That’s why it’s so important that the place where you store your goods takes great measures to protect them until they are sold.

The quality of a public warehouse is what sets one apart from the other. As such, a business should do its due diligence to ensure its goods are being entrusted to a third-party logistics (3PL) provider that considers them just as important as you do.

The following checklist will help you evaluate your current warehousing situation or assist in your search for the best public warehousing option to meet your company’s needs.

How Secure Is the Warehouse?

Whether storing your goods in-house or in an outsourced 3PL facility, the building should be well secured, 24/7/365. Check that the storage facility has:

- Video surveillance or security guards on duty around the clock;
- Security alarms;
- Fire protection.

At Brendamour Warehousing, Distribution & Services, our security measures ensure your raw materials and finished goods are well protected.

Our four facilities are all equipped with modern, well maintained, and continuously monitored protection devices, including motion detectors, door alarms, and sprinkler systems.

In addition, we utilize camera monitoring and recording systems for an added layer of security protection.

How Clean Is the Facility?

The last thing you want are bugs or rodents damaging your goods, or just as worse, traveling in the crate or box with your shipped goods. The cleanliness of a warehouse facility is of the utmost importance, particularly if you are storing finished food items or raw materials for making food products.

Poor housekeeping also creates health and safety hazards that could lead to accidents that result in product breakage and injuries, such as falling over objects or slipping on wet or dirty surfaces, being hit by falling items, banging into protruding or badly stacked items, or getting cut from nails or strapping that are sticking out.

Be sure to evaluate the following:

- How tidy and clean work areas are kept.
- Whether the warehouse floor and storage racks are clean of debris, free of clutter, and have no worn or damaged areas.
- Whether aisles and main traffic areas are free of slip and trip hazards.
- The lighting throughout the warehouse facility is adequate and in working order.
- Goods are stored properly and not in a hazardous manner.
- The cleanliness of equipment, supplies, and tools.
- Whether there are workplace hygiene and cleanliness protocols in place.
- Whether waste disposal protocols are being implemented.
- The presence of visibly posted safety signs.
- The overall appearance and smell of the warehouse.

At Brendamour Warehousing, we take the time and effort necessary to maintain a clean and safe warehouse and distribution facility. This ensures our staff works in a healthy environment. Our housekeeping and sanitation policies also enable us to better serve our customers with:

- More efficient equipment maintenance.
- Better control of inventory, supplies, tools, and materials.
- A materials flow plan that promotes less handling to ease the movement of your goods.
- Excellent preventive maintenance practices that eliminate damage to your goods.
- Enhanced productivity.

Because of our strict sanitation and housekeeping protocols, Brendamour Warehousing, Distribution & Services is approved to store and handle food-related products. We provide our customers with the highest food grade warehouses that meet and/or exceed food industry requirements.

How Are Products Stored?

Proper warehouse storage ensures your goods are well protected from damage or spillage. A good public warehouse should have:

- Customized racking systems to accommodate all types and sizes of product.
- Organized storage systems that minimize the amount of handling.
- Stock locations that are readily available when needed.
- Stacked goods on a firm foundation and affixed properly.
- Well marked storage areas.
- Adequate clearance between stacked goods and the ceiling, lighting fixtures, and sprinkler heads.
- Flammable, hazardous, or combustible materials clearly marked as such and stored according to the applicable regulations and in designated areas.

Product storing at Brendamour means efficient utilization of space so you pay only for the square footage you need. We have state-of-the-art customizable racking systems that can fit all types and sizes of product, and accommodate items that cannot be easily stacked.

Our racking systems also ensure quick location of goods and better accuracy when order fulfillment calls for picking multi-line items.

How Are Products Handled?

Proper handling of goods reduces the risk of damage during the order fulfillment and distribution process. A proper storage facility should have:

- The type of equipment necessary for properly moving goods in and out of the warehouse.
- A skilled warehouse staff.

At Brendamour Warehousing, product handling protocols are in place for goods arriving at our warehouse, being stored, being prepared for order processing, and being shipped or distributed.

We utilize modern hydraulic lift equipment to ensure your goods are carefully handled. In addition, the expertise of our highly skilled warehouse staff means your products are handled with the best of care while in our care.

Brendamour Makes the Grade

When it comes to protecting your goods during the entire warehousing and distribution process, Brendamour Warehousing, Distribution & Services makes top grades in all aspects of warehousing logistics.

Get in touch with us to learn more about the efforts we take to protect your goods and to see our policies in action.