Reinvesting in the Wheel: Benefits of Full Wheel-Bed Carton Flow Conveyors for Inventory Management

As your warehouse continues to expand and diversify, the need for flexibility, speed, and efficiency to deal with inventory changes becomes more and more crucial. You need to be able to seamlessly bring in and change out goods of varying shapes and sizes to fill immediate orders, particularly for enhanced e-commerce fulfillment objectives. Full wheel-bed carton flow conveyors represent a prime option for addressing quickly changing inventory management needs with capacity of up to 50 Lbs. per linear foot for an 8’ unsupported span. Warehouses, distribution centers, production facilities, and manufacturing locations are using full-wheel-bed carton flow conveyors in their operations because they offer more flexibility for varying SKUs and carton sizes vs. roller-track carton flow. SKU count for a typical warehouse can be increased by 20% by changing from traditional roller conveyor to wheel style conveyor.  Warehouse Optimizers, Inc. (WOI) is ready to help you identify if this storage solution is right for your warehouse’s operations.

What Are Full Wheel-Bed Carton Flow Conveyors?

Full wheel-bed carton flow conveyor is created by placing wheeled tracks into pallet rack bays to create an entire surface of wheels. Tracks are available in 12” and 16” sections that can be mixed and combined as necessary to fill the rack bay and take the best advantage of the shelf space. With a full surface of wheels, SKU lanes are created to move product from the rear of the system to the front pick face. Across the bay, the carton sizes can vary, which helps optimize the space. 

• Store varying sizes of cartons
• Easily & accurately sort and fill custom, multi-item orders
• Manage and process inventory at a faster rate
• Increase SKU count and long-term inventory organization
• Guaranteed fit of virtually all carton sizes
• More efficient picking with less travel time for pickers 

As opposed to roller carton flow which restricts carton width to the approximate width of the rollers, the full wheel bed design allows for cartons, totes, cases, or eaches of varying sizes to flow side by side to maximize storage capacity and quickly address inventory changes. Often SKU lanes can be designed with entry guides or lane guides to help distinguish the lane for faster load and pick functions.  

Typically, carton flow is preferable to static shelving for carton and small case picking because of the separate load and pick aisles which minimizes congestion in the pick area, plus the efficiency of automatically replenished pick face stock and condensed footprint. 

Increase Pick Slots & Productivity While Reducing Travel Time & Expenses with Carton Flow Rack

These systems are especially ideal for the 3PL, food & beverage, pharmaceutical, beer, automotive parts, automotive finished goods, and electronics industries but are used across a wide variety of warehousing and distribution facilities. Let the WOI team of experts help you keep your inventory flowing with a full-wheel bed carton flow application to meet your unique warehousing needs. 

Call today to experience our Total Satisfaction Experience™. When choosing the WOI team, we not only guarantee to deliver a quality, reliable product, we assure you of job site safety, timely project execution, and a finished system that meets your expectations for quality and aesthetic impression. Contact us today via Chat or at (865) 540-4004 to arrange a Zoom meeting or personal visit to talk about what we can do to solve your storage and distribution challenges. Our local representatives look forward to working with you.