Ideas for organising your warehouse
Practical things that are useful even if you never install anything.
2026-09-06
How to organise a small Shopify warehouse
Somebody with a spare room or a unit, boxes on the floor, and no system. What to name shelves, how granular to go, and when bins start paying off.
2026-09-06
Bin naming that still makes sense at 400 bins
Aisle-rack-shelf schemes, why sequential numbers fall apart, and how to leave room to grow.
2026-09-06
Five things that slow down picking
Walking order, one product in several bins, no barcode, batching, and printing the list too late.
2026-09-06
Cycle counting without closing for a day
Counting a few bins a week instead of everything at once, which bins to start with, and what to do with the differences.
2026-09-06
Shopify locations are not bins
What Shopify tracks, what it does not, and why quantity without position is only half an inventory.
2026-09-06
Receiving a pallet without losing an afternoon
Scanning into a bin as you unload, when to label, and why the fast path is one bin at a time.
2026-09-06
Finding the stock that is not moving
How dead stock hides in a warehouse, what 90 days of no movement really costs, and what to do about it.
2026-09-06
What your warehouse staff should not see
Costs, margins and payouts on a shared tablet, and how to give someone the picking screen and nothing else.