Pallet Heights and Bay Sizes

Overview

TOT's warehouse contains numerous racking bays. It is important to note that not bay size varies within racks, and moreover the number and height of bays sizes varies across different zones in the warehouse.

For example - Warehouse Zone D;'s bay sizes are not identical to bay sizes in Zone W.

When putting away pallets - staff need to know what bay sizes within in a zone can efficiently accommodate the pallet.

Given this, a method is needed to publish the bay sizes that exist in a zone so staff can quickly identify the bay sizes to use.

This topic outlines the method to use to identify applicable bay sizes.

 

Defining Bay Sizes

In each warehouse zone, the heights of the differing sized bays needs to be measured.

These measurements are used in two ways

 

  1. The measurement is electronically recorded against the location identifier for the corresponding zone  in strokeone
  2. The differing heights are drawn onto pallet height guide rulers
    The below image shows the 16 different bay heights that exist in zone D  - The tallest height is given the numeric value 0, with each height values below increases by 1.


  3. TOT will manufacture higher quality versions of this pallet height guides onto wooden boards and placed in numerous areas within the zone

    Note: as storage heights vary across warehouse zones, unique pallet height guides will need to be constructed and made available for each of the warehouse zones.

 

Determining Bay Height Required to accommodate Pallet

Pallets of boxes to be stored vary by height  - depending on the quantity and vertical dimensions of the boxes stacked on the pallet.
In other words - there is typically no standard height of a pallet

When it comes to putting away a pallet - use the following method to determine the applicable bay height needed

 

  1. Locate the pallet height guide ruler for the warehouse zone in which you will be storing the palletised goods.
  2. Offer up your pallet of goods against the height guide ruler

  3. Take note of the corresponding height measurement on the ruler - For example in the above image, the pallet will fit in bays in the zone with a height value of 10 and above.  
  4. You can then electronically find empty bays that meet the height criteria.