How Cardboard Packaging Reduces Warehouse Storage Space

How Cardboard Packaging Reduces Warehouse Storage Space

Cardboard may occupy space when it is unpacked but, with the correct approach, it can use up a lot less space when it is packed in a warehouse.

Buy Flat-Pack and KDF Boxes

Flat packed cardboard boxes arrive at your premises in knocked down form, ready for assembly and stacking into tight piles on a shelf or on a pallet. A single bay that might hold a few hundred assembled cartons could hold several thousand of the flat packed form, allowing other more valuable stock to be stacked on the available racking space.

Right-Size Your Boxes

Oversized cartons contain a lot of dead air which takes up valuable space on your warehouse shelves before you even start to use the box. By choosing to use boxes of the correct size for your products, you can make best use of the space available on the shelves by stacking more cartons in the same area of the warehouse.

Choose Nesting or Interlocking Designs

Some designs even allow the boxes to nest inside each other when not in use or to be stacked and interlocked. A slight reduction in the overall size of the stacks of boxes can make a big difference in busy warehouses.

Align Box Sizes to Pallet Dimensions

Plan your boxes to fit within the dimensions of your pallets. For example, cartons measuring 1,200 mm x 800 mm will stack neatly on a 1200 x 800 mm pallet. We outline the ways that our packaging is reported and measured on our cardboard packaging guidance page.

Use a Just-in-Time Supply Arrangement

By storing only enough cartons to meet current orders, you can prevent unnecessary storage of cartons, freeing up space for stock that is selling.

Even slight changes to the way you specify cardboard packaging and schedule deliveries of cardboard can recover large amounts of space without the need for changes to be made to the warehouse structure itself.