How to Help Your Loading Dock Overcome the Supply Chain Slump
Currently, several industries are facing difficulties regarding their satisfaction with local and national supply chains. Although your loading dock may not be in control over how quickly goods arrive at your stations, there are still several moves your team can make to ensure that it gets necessary supplies to your customers on time.
At Southern Dock Products, we specialize in improving loading dock efficiency and can help your location shine even when supply chains aren’t moving at the speed you’d like.
Follow our quick tips that will help your loading dock remain productive during the best and worst delivery periods.
Discover Your Loading Dock Inefficiencies
For your dock to ensure inventory reaches customers on time, it can’t have many inefficiencies that set it back. Take some time to reach out to your employees and delivery drivers to determine where your loading dock needs improvements.
From increased safety measures to scheduling overdue maintenance on crucial equipment at your loading dock, tackling initial inefficiencies is the first step towards speeding up deliveries and pick-ups from your location.
Make Use Of Vertical Space With Commercial Overhead Doors
Commercial overhead doors provide an excellent solution for loading docks that guarantee a quicker product route from dock to consumer access.
Maximizing the available vertical space through overhead rolling doors gives workers more room to operate and serves as one of the best ways to overcome loading dock inefficiencies.
Rolling steel doors don’t take up too much space during use, offer about 20,000 cycles throughout their lifecycle, and create a safe commercial door solution.
Organize Workstations
To speed up the loading process, your employees need to know exactly where all of their necessary equipment is at all times. Prevent the waste of your precious time and ensure that your employees never have to scramble to find the tools and equipment needed for a quick loading or unloading job.
One of the best ways to keep your loading dock organized is to practice some of the following processes:
- Sorting equipment
- Labeling equipment
- Clean equipment for easy visibility
- Standardize equipment at each station so employees can complete their tasks, no matter their location at your loading dock
Light Up Your Lanes
Safety lights are an excellent way to keep your loading dock organized and ready for delivery trucks that pull up to your stations. By providing drivers with clear lighting that signals where your lanes start and stop, less decision-making occurs, your team knows where to be prepared, and your deliveries become a seamless process that quickly gets your loading dock ready for its next big delivery.
Speed Up Your Loading and Unloading Processes With Southern Dock Products
Whether your loading dock needs new equipment, maintenance, or a complete design overhaul, Southern Dock Products is always available to help. Contact us today to learn more about our services or schedule a consultation with a member of our dock design team.
