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Orientation Guides

To find a storage location quickly, highly visible boards, signs and labels for storage positions are necessary. Special attention should be paid to the consequent use of background colours.
The font size and hence the size of the boards and labels has to be suited to the reading distance.

Orientation Boards

Storage Location Labels

Bulk Warehouse Labelling

Article Labels

Package Labels

Floor Markings

Hazarad Signs and Escape Routes

Signage for Buildings

Visual Guides

When implementing orientation guides it is important to ensure legibilty from a great distance. That means that the font size, the colour and especially the location or positioning of the signage or labelling is important. Experience has shown that people like working with colours. Colour is recognised quicker than the contour of a person or even than lettering. Therefore it is recommended to define a corresponding (familiar) background colour for warehouse information (zone or shelf boards, storage place labels, hazard signs, escape route signage or for orientation for firefightng). We at FKM have found tat the colour yellow has proven practical for logistical labeling.
Everybody knows that red means fire or prohibition, green means flight or free passage and blue means a command. The attention span is determined by the ability to remember a specific colour. You could call it the „yellow" thread through logistics.

Naming Key

A unique label for storage locations provides you with the necessary overview in your warehosue. Unnecessary searching caused by illegable article labels can be avoided. You have no trouble and hectic and you can save time which you can invest better elsewhere according to the old proverb "Time is money". By using a systematic set of numbers for your storage areas, shelves and storage places, you can lead your warehouse staff straight to the correct place. The advantage in the allocation of a location lies in the free (chaotic) choice of a suitable storage space. Therefore the stock can be stored as you wish: fully or partially chaotic or according to a systematic article logic (fixed allocation of picking areas). In this way you also provide the basis for managing the stock with a manual or computer-based warehouse system. The storage locations can be managed more economically according to package-size vs. volume vs. warehouse-volume, ABC turnaround classification, route optimization or stacking criteria.

Storage Location / Numeric Key

We recommend setting up a three dimensional grid of coordinates for your warehouse. With xyz-axes any location can be defined. The z-axis defines the shelves or the passages, the x-axis describes the depth of a shelf and the y-axis the height. The numeric key needs to be defined properly to avoid a collision of the axes. Numbers or letters can be used.
The following criteria should be considered:
- single digits range from 1 to 9 or from A to Z
- -multiple digits range from 01 to 99, 001 to 999 etc.

Some branches of business have developed their own suitable solutions. If it is important to optimize the route, then it makes sense to choose a zigzag or z-commissioning order. Correspondingly the passage and not the row of shelves is labelled and the shelf spaces in the x-axis are named in ascending order towards the back of the passage. It is recommended to use even numbers for the right side and uneven numbers for the left side. The advantage is that the picker can pick stock from left and right alternatively. When he leaves the passage and enters the next, he works his way back again. In this way he moves through the commissioning order fluidly. In a warehouse for spare parts with small amounts of stockpicking, short rows of shelves numbered in ascending order from the starting point could be used. In this case the passages could also have a dead-end.

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Orientation Boards

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