Ideas for Storage

[UDT89]

Hey all

I'm looking for some suggestions on storage solutions. I'm looking to see how other companies store their documents.

Here at my company we store retail sales media, so its impossible to scan it and we need to keep it b/c its the original document.

Right now we have cardboard office boxes, you know the nice ones that come with the lid, and they are stored on pallets. Each pallet is 3x3x9. So three boxes across, three boxes deep, and nine boxes high. We wrap the older pallets in plastic, but about once a month they need to be re-wrapped due to someone needing the older documents. The reason we wrap them is b/c if we don't they might fall over.

Anyone have a website or something that sells something that can help fix this? I'm searching now on Google, but most everything is about scanning documents.

 

[quakefiend420]

file cabinets out the ass?

dunno

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

a guy I know here owns a file storage company. You put in in a file box and they pick it up, barcode every file and the box, categorize it in a database. When you need a file (say, Mr. Smith's medical file from 2001) you call them up, tell them what you need, they look it up, pull the file for you. You pay $3.00 if you stop by to view it, or for $7.00 they bag it and hand deliver it to you within 4 hours.

 

[UDT89]

Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
a guy I know here owns a file storage company. You put in in a file box and they pick it up, barcode every file and the box, categorize it in a database. When you need a file (say, Mr. Smith's medical file from 2001) you call them up, tell them what you need, they look it up, pull the file for you. You pay $3.00 if you stop by to view it, or for $7.00 they bag it and hand deliver it to you within 4 hours.

how do they store things at their warehouse? thats the solution i need.

 

[Phoenix86]

Document warehouse? Why build the wheel when you can rent it and use your retail space for retail? Do you really want to be in the document storage business?

$/sq. ft. of retail >>> $/sq. ft. or warehouse.

 

[UDT89]

we dont want the media off site.

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: UDT89
we dont want the media off site.

Filing cabinets then?

If space is a problem convert everything to digital images(PDF or something) then just print them out when you need them.

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

Originally posted by: UDT89

Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
a guy I know here owns a file storage company. You put in in a file box and they pick it up, barcode every file and the box, categorize it in a database. When you need a file (say, Mr. Smith's medical file from 2001) you call them up, tell them what you need, they look it up, pull the file for you. You pay $3.00 if you stop by to view it, or for $7.00 they bag it and hand deliver it to you within 4 hours.

how do they store things at their warehouse? thats the solution i need.

On racks floor to ceiling....