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Warehouse Design

Innovative Warehouse Design using Data Analysis and Industry-Leading Expertise


Data-driven warehouse design

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.

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Data Driven

Our warehouse design process analyses your operations then delivers data-backed designs, purpose-built around enhancing your productivity.

Enhanced Productivity

Our solutions streamline workflows, reduce bottlenecks, and create a more efficient and productive internal environment for your employees.

Comprehensive Optimisation

By optimising space, we help you achieve faster turnaround times and better service levels, ultimately driving business growth and customer satisfaction.


Our services

  • Pallet Racking
  • Warehouse Automation
  • Turnkey Solutions
  • Independent Supply Chain

Award winning solutions

Our bespoke warehouse designs use high-quality storage equipment, materials, and software tailored to your needs.

No matter the industry or application, there’s a variety of pallet racking systems available to enhance storage efficiency.

  • Drive-in pallet racking and mobile pallet racking are ideal for frozen and cold-store goods.
  • First-in, First-out (FIFO) Pallet-flow systems are perfect for bulk goods with expiration dates.
  • Each system offers unique benefits to optimise your warehouse storage.

With our tailored solutions, you can ensure that your warehouse operations are efficient and cost-effective, maximising space and functionality.

Whatever your storage needs, we have the right system for you.

Pallet Racking
Pallet Racking

Enhanced efficiency through intelligence

We offer comprehensive warehouse automation solutions that can significantly enhance your operational efficiency. Our services encompass both digital and physical automation, tailored to meet your unique needs.

  • Digital automation streamlines data management and inventory tracking.
  • Physical automation, such as robotic systems, optimises material handling and storage.

Combining digital and physical automation helps businesses navigate complex layouts and improve productivity. This integrated approach ensures that your warehouse operations are more efficient and adaptable.

Let us help you enhance your overall productivity with our tailored automation solutions.

Warehouse Automation
Warehouse Automation

Workspace design and installation

Our comprehensive workspace design and installation service considers all your physical and operational requirements. We provide bespoke solutions tailored to the unique size and layout of your warehouse, office interiors, and R&D labs.

  • Custom-built collaboration zones are available for enhanced teamwork.
  • We design temperature-controlled storerooms for specific needs like product testing.
  • Our turnkey solutions are adaptable to any space and operational demand.

With our tailored approach, we ensure that your workspace is optimised for functionality and efficiency. Whatever your requirements, we deliver solutions designed to meet your specific needs.

Why SEC Group?
Turnkey Solutions

Offering optimal value and performance

Leveraging extensive industry expertise and knowledge, we provide premium quality products at highly competitive prices. Our strategic approach, free from in-house manufacturing constraints, allows us to offer diverse solutions tailored to your unique requirements.

  • We source a wide range of products to ensure optimal value and performance.
  • Our flexibility enables us to adapt solutions specifically to your needs.
  • Our commitment to superior service and support underpins everything we do.

This approach ensures you receive the best possible products and services, all designed to meet your specific goals and expectations. Trust us to deliver quality and value every time.

Independent Supply Chain

What our clients say

FREED-VENEERS-STORAGE

"Reaping Rewards"

Having worked with SEC Storage on our previous warehouse installation, we knew that they offered something different to other partners.

But we have been overwhelmed by the lengths they have gone to, designing and delivering a totally bespoke solution to an otherwise unsolvable issue. The other options out there were just not fit for purpose, and everyone told us we couldn’t do what was required.

SEC’s experts together with the manufacturer have been incredible to develop this solution and we will be reaping the rewards for years to come.

Christie Lites

Robin Wain, Director
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"An Absolute Delight"

Our new facility is an absolute delight, from welcoming customers to view our wood veneers in our spectacular Showroom, through to our efficient warehouse storage solution making our high volume daily deliveries straightforward.

Across both Warehouse and Interiors teams, SEC have been excellent. They are a talented team of experts who find a way no matter what and I couldn’t recommend them more highly.

Freed Veneers

Laurence Freed, Managing Director
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"Trust and Confidence In SEC"

Their flexible approach and nimble problem-solving capabilities were instrumental in cultivating trust and cementing our confidence in SEC’s ability to deliver, regardless of external circumstances.

Commercial Body Fittings

Phil Turner, Operations Manager
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"Outstanding"

During COVID-19, SEC were outstanding. Even though we were in the middle of a pandemic, the project ran smoothly with the fitters and steel arriving on schedule. I couldn’t have asked for any more from SEC.

RAJA UK

Tom Rodda, Managing Director
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"Efficiency and Flexibility"

What could have been an extremely difficult and stressful build process was alleviated by SEC’s efficiency, flexibility and communication. I wouldn’t hesitate to work with SEC again and very much hope we will have the opportunity in the near future.

Portmeirion

Tom Bratherton, Head of Logistics
Proteus-Waterproofing

"Absolutely Delighted"

We’re absolutely delighted with our warehouse storage solution; it’s bespoke, highly efficient using every inch of available space, and allows us the agility and flexibility to achieve our longer term business growth objectives.

Proteus

Rozalind Richardson, Operations Manager
HBC

"SEC Went The Extra Mile"

The team at SEC went the extra mile to demonstrate through detailed analysis and expertise that the new warehouse space would deliver our required ROI and offer us a highly efficient and safe environment for our staff and customers’ inventory.

The stylish office interior further enhances our brand values and provides a great place for our staff to benefit from the new facilities and remain happy and focused.

HBC Logistics

Ben Weldon, Director

Our 9-step design process

Step 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 warehouse 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(s).

 

Step 3: Design Production

  • Carry out extensive statistical analysis, review information and present to the client, ensuring that all parties agree storage space has been optimised based on the warehouse schematic that will have been constructed.
  • Provide you with an initial concept layout (along with warehouse blueprint).
  • Confirm good warehouse layout has been formulated and adequate storage area sizes depicted.
  • Finalise development and design.

 

Step 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 and that this is, in fact, the ideal warehouse layout design.
  • 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 for the new warehouse layout.
  • Sign-off.

 

Step 6 – Specification & Quotation

  • Provide you with a detailed specification & quotation for the warehouse design and installation.

 

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, who will be implementing the changes to the internal and external layout.
  • Quality Control and Health & Safety checks (we only employ SafeContractor, CHAS and SEIRS accredited installers).  Safety checks are conducted by our Health & -Safety manager.

 

Step 9 – Solution Optimisation

  • Final checks and solution optimisation.
  • Aftercare.

Want To Know More?

 

For expert guidance on designing your next warehouse project to ensure optimal efficiency and productivity, reach out to one of our dedicated storage specialists today.

 

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At SEC we work together to deliver the best possible result for you, our customer.

Our dedicated and experienced sales teams, data analysts, designers, project managers and customer service staff communicate and collaborate to design and install the best possible system for your needs. Our staff are your project’s most valuable asset, take time to meet some of them here.

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Award-winning design

Our commitment to digital innovation in warehouse design is highlighted by our recent achievement: winning the 2023 UKWA award for the Digital Innovation Project.

This prestigious recognition is a testament to our advanced use of data and comprehensive analysis in every warehouse layout we craft.

Our approach, characterised by data-driven designs and extensive post-sales support, not only sets industry standards but also demonstrates our dedication to leading-edge solutions in logistics.

This UKWA award underscores our excellence in integrating technology and data for innovative warehouse solutions.

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Awards & accreditations for this service

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IET Excellence and Innovation Awards 2023

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UKWA Young Employee of the Year

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Digital Innovation Project (Systems)

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Technology Company of the Year

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FAQs

Warehouses and distribution centres facilitate the flow of goods between businesses and consumers. Optimising the processes within a warehouse improves the efficiency of that workflow. Maximising storage capacity, increasing put away and retrieval times, improving pick accuracy and reducing picking time all contribute to improvements in productivity.

We offer comprehensive warehouse automation solutions that include both digital and physical automation. Digital automation involves technology like warehouse management systems to reduce manual processes, and physical automation uses equipment such as Autonomous Mobile Robotics (AMRs) and Automated Storage & Retrieval Systems (AS/RS)

We consider layout optimisation, equipment needs, inventory management, and future scalability. Our in-house Machine Learning platform DIDO (data In, Design Out) ensures the design meets current needs and allows for growth, providing a data-backed, tailored solution.

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Want To Know More?

For assistance with the design process of your next project to guarantee maximum operational efficiency, contact one of our storage specialists today.

    • Address:

      Unit 11 The iO Centre,
      Arlington Business Park,
      Stevenage, Hertfordshire,
      United Kingdom, SG1 2BD

    • Email: info@sec-group.co.uk
    • Phone: 01438 731 990