Warehouse Design & Space Planning

Warehouse space planning is the process of designing how a building's cubic space is used — rack type and layout, aisle widths, pick faces, and flow — to store the most product while keeping operations efficient and safe. Alliance space-plans warehouses nationwide, modeling your real inventory and equipment before recommending a layout. Call (240) 269-2216 to get started.

We match the rack system to each part of your inventory: fast-moving SKUs go in selective or pallet-flow rack for speed, while slow, high-quantity SKUs go in drive-in or push-back for density. By zoning the warehouse instead of using one system everywhere, you gain pallet positions where density matters and keep selectivity where throughput matters. Alliance zones warehouses this way nationwide.

Yes. Alliance delivers scaled CAD layout drawings showing rack runs, aisle widths, dock and column locations, and the total pallet-position count for each option, so you can compare designs on paper before committing. Those layouts then feed directly into stamped permit drawings and installation.

Always — aisle width is one of the biggest levers in a layout. We design around your existing lift trucks (counterbalance, reach, turret/very-narrow-aisle) or, if you are open to it, show what a narrower-aisle truck would gain you in pallet positions. The aisles are sized to the truck's turning radius plus safe clearance. Alliance sizes layouts to your existing forklifts nationwide.

For most projects where Alliance supplies and installs the rack, the design and layout work is rolled into the project rather than billed separately. Standalone consulting engagements are quoted by scope. Call (240) 269-2216 and we will explain how it works for your project.

Yes. An accurate layout depends on a real field measure — building dimensions, clear heights, column grid, dock positions, slab condition, and sprinkler heads. We come to your facility anywhere in the country, capture the as-built conditions, and design from those, not from assumptions. Alliance field-measures every project nationwide before designing.