Any business that is remotely involved with food knows a thing or two about FIFO or keeping and holding products until it is time to ship them out. The job becomes even more of a hurdle when you add the factor of scale. The scale we are talking about here is whether or not your business serves as an industrial scale business. If you are then you know that holding that much product and making sure that it stays fresh is a massive problem.
It does not even have to be just meats either. Grains, vegetables, and other products also tend to expire and that means that you have to have your processes down so you that you do not waste the product. It is in these businesses where your equipment and your choice of equipment is paramount. You need to make sure that you have the right pieces and the right workflow in your warehouse to support the movement of your product. You want it to be smooth, planned, and efficient.
A warehouse CAD design will help you figure out how to optimize your workflow. You can also get pallet flow racks to help keep your FIFO standards. These racks make sure that the next oldest product is brought to the forefront where it is used first. The newest products load behind them. Therefore, the first in-first out the standard of inventory management is adhered to no matter if you think about it or not. Best of all, this type of rack does not use electricity to do this job. It uses gravity and specially made rollers to make sure that the system is constantly maintaining the course. Therefore, even if your power goes out, you can still move your products without fear of losing your FIFO standards. You can keep working and the pallet rack system will work right alongside with you irrespective of the use of electricity or not.
A little bit of planning and execution goes a long way in making sure that your business is ready to handle the rigors of the business you do on a daily basis. Making sure you get the right equipment, especially some or all of those pieces as listed above, will definitely help you maintain your FIFO inventory system without much need for extra work on your behalf or your employees' behalf. Obviously, the more automation you can insert into your work, the better and faster you will be in that work. You will ship things faster and you will have a greater capacity to sell and fulfill orders.
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