Intelligent Warehouse Designs

Delivering Innovation in the Warehouse through Intelligent Data Analysis and Industry Leading Expertise

How we use data to drive intelligent, modern warehouse designs

For a warehouse design to be truly efficient, it’s vital to understand the full extent of a customer’s operations and how every element may improve or hinder efficiency and growth potential. At SEC Storage we have invested heavily in developing a suite of bespoke data analysis tools through which we leverage customers’ product data to create ‘intelligent’ warehouse designs.

By assessing your current product types, pallet criteria, material handling equipment and available warehouse space, our experienced in-house design team will utilise all the data analysis and operational simulations to design a bespoke, warehouse storage solution that will maximise warehouse capacity and meet the needs of your operation, both now, and in the future.

Data driven design Award winning design Data Excellence Proven systematic approach

Data driven design

Our approach is to leverage customer data to design intelligent warehouse solutions that meet the customer’s business objectives.

To achieve this, we have built an innovative suite of analytical tools that are embedded in every stage of our warehouse design and delivery process. These tools are used to transform the customer experience and effectiveness of our design solutions that we place into warehouses and distribution facilities. Our usage of customers’ operational data has a positive effect pre, during and post-project.

Award winning design

Our unique use of data and the in-depth degree of analysis we undertake for each warehouse layout design, can best be demonstrated by our data-driven designs and extensive post-sales analytical support winning us four prestigious national logistics awards for design; including most recently, SHD’s 2019 Logistics Award for Innovation.

In addition, we have been announced as finalists at the prestigious Lloyd’s Bank National Business Awards 2020 in the category for ‘Data Excellence’.

Data Excellence

The Lloyds Bank National Business Awards is the UK’s flagship awards programme, recognising and rewarding excellence across all sectors.

These awards are the ones to win – any company within the UK, whether public, private or third sector can enter, regardless of size or industry. The awards have a range of categories suited for any successful organisation to tell their story; from large private and public companies through to thriving entrepreneurial businesses, promising start-ups and established SMEs.

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Proven systematic approach

We have developed a proven, systematic approach to warehouse layout design that utilises extensive data gathering, in-depth analytics and operational simulations to deliver intelligent warehouse design solutions for our customers.

Without doubt, our data-oriented approach to warehouse layout design has made us more innovative, as by understanding our customers’ operations better, we are able to provide solutions that differentiate our customers from their competition and drive improved financial performance.

Warehouse Design: Where do you Start?

Warehouses are about far more than just racking and storage capacity. Using our extensive experience in delivering complete warehouse designs, we will take your warehouse storage from initial conception all the way through to completion.

After discussing your warehouse needs by conducting an Analytical Appraisal, and gaining an understanding of your business and how you operate, our warehouse design consultants will then produce optimised conceptual layouts that match your business’ strategic needs and add value to your clients.

At SEC we can design, supply and install every facet of warehouse storage including:

Whatever your storage requirements, we can build a solution that will meet and exceed your expectations.

Our 9-step design process

Stage 1: Requirements Gathering
- Meet face-to-face to discuss your requirements and begin the process of establishing a project brief
- Extract key information about your current operations
- Confirm objectives, introduce our approach and recommendations
Step 2: Data Gathering
- Submit our data request requirements to understand volumetrics, goods in and order-profile data
- Our operations analyst will review and provide recommendations and proposed solution
Stage 3: Design Production
- Carry out extensive statistical analysis, review information and present
- Provide you with an initial concept layout
- Finalise development and design
Stage 4: Design Optimisation
- Testing/quality check and analysis of design
- Pressure testing: Simulation, through-put analysis and hot-spot testing to ensure the solution is viable
- Calculating the operational improvements and return on investment opportunities that the solution offers

Step 5 - Presentation & Sign-Off
Provide relevant analysis and expected operational performance levels –

Sign-off –
Step 6 - Specification & Quotation
Provide you with a detailed specification & quotation for the work –
Step 7 - Order Placement
Once happy, your order is finalised and confirmed –
Step 8 - Project Delivery
Introduction to our delivery team: Senior Projects Manager, a Projects Coordinator and Installations Manager –

Quality Control and Health & Safety checks (we only employ SafeContractor, CHAS and SEIRS accreditated installers). Safety checks are conducted by our Health & -Safety manager
Step 9 - Solution Optimisation
Final checks and solution optimisation –

Aftercare –