Business is growing and running out of space in the warehouse.  What to do before moving to a new facility or pouring concrete?  Fifty things to consider:

1. Cross dock
2. Narrow aisles
3. Double deep racks
4. Bridges over aisles, cross aisles, aisle ends, truck doors
5. Re-slot forward pick locations
6. Relocate slow movers and consolidate
7. Change batteries rather than park and charge
8. Pushback racks
9. Pallet flow racks
10. Carton flow racks
11. Carousels horizontal or vertical
12. Place top beam at top of uprights, close pack the top deck
13. Shorter beams; 96″ not 108″
14. Triple wide beams
15. Vary beam heights
16. Double stack pallets
17. Mobile shelving
18. Purge excess, slow moving, obsolete
19. Improve put away and pick cycle time and then cut safety stock
20. Direct or Drop Ship
21. Drop items from the catalog
22. Put carton flow racks under pallet racks
23. Put pick shelves and bins under pallet racks
24. Slip sheets or low profile pallets
25. Daily delivery of new pallets and packaging supplies
26. Check out bound while picking or loading
27. Check in bound while unloading or put away
28. Store more than one item per shelf or pallet
29. Consolidate partial pallets, cartons, bins
30. Receive and ship on different shifts
31. Redesign package
32. Optimize pallet stacking pattern
33. Select the right size pallet
34. Buy/Make to Order
35. Buy in smaller lots
36. Ship in smaller lots
37. Receive and ship more often
38. Make inbound receipt appointments
39. Make delivery appointments
40. Spot out bound trailers & load directly into trailer
41. Eliminate inbound inspection
42. Recalculate safety stock
43. Recalculate order quantities
44. Sell slow moving, return for credit, fire sale
45. Donate, scrap, recycle obsolete
46. Take assemblies apart and sell spare parts
47. Combine parts in to kits
48. Reduce the in and out queues
49. Control SKU proliferation
50. Pick directly into the shipping container