Automotive Storage

Optimizing Inventory Flow for Auto Parts and Service

The Automotive industry, encompassing dealerships, service centers, parts distributors, and repair shops, demands storage systems that combine high density with immediate accessibility. Managing inventory ranging from small fasteners to heavy tires and batteries requires specialized, safety-focused solutions.

The Automotive Storage category features articles and insights dedicated to optimizing your parts department and service bay operations:

  • Part Retrieval Speed: Ensuring technicians can access components quickly to minimize service bay downtime.
  • Specialized Storage: Handling large, oddly shaped items like tires and dangerous goods like batteries safely.
  • Space Maximization: Utilizing vertical space for thousands of unique SKUs.

Solutions for Speed and Compliance

Our content highlights how specialized WPSS products are engineered specifically for the automotive environment:

  • Tire Storage: Insights focus on our heavy-duty steel tire racks that securely hold tires in place with angled beams, allowing for fast, easy removal without locking devices.
  • Battery Safety: Articles detail the safety and efficiency of our patented boltless battery racks designed to facilitate First-In, First-Out (FIFO) rotation, crucial for managing battery life.
  • Parts Organization: Content covers using adaptable shelving systems like RiveTier for organizing thousands of small and medium parts, ensuring high visibility and inventory accuracy.
  • Custom Work Areas: Use cases showcase industrial workbenches and hanging rack systems that keep tools and frequently used parts within inches of the technician’s workspace.
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Automotive Storage

Custom High-Density Automotive Storage: WPSS Deluxe Shelving for NAPA Auto Parts Distribution

NAPA Auto Parts owners converted a former retail store into a major regional distribution center. They needed a custom, two-level storage solution that would maximize Vertical Space, featured desirable 48-inch bays, and delivered a complete High-Density Storage system in NAPA blue and safety yellow.

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Automotive Storage

Maximize Rear-Store Space: How Boltless RiveTier Multilevel Systems Drive Automotive Success

RiveTier Boltless Shelving is used to create high-value Multilevel Systems for the automotive trade. Learn how RiveTier’s innate flexibility and Boltless Assembly deliver fast installation and maximum storage capacity for auto parts stores looking to maximize rear-store space.

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Automotive Storage

Seismic-Approved Automotive Storage: O’Reilly Auto Parts Achieves High-Density Storage for Hazardous Materials with Deluxe Shelving

To integrate their expanded distribution network, O’Reilly Auto Parts partnered with WPSS to engineer Multilevel Systems using Deluxe Industrial Shelving. These seismic-approved structures safely store hazardous automotive products and ensuring compliance in high-risk areas.

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Automotive Storage

How to store irregular or oversized items with heavy-duty shelving

Warehouses and storage facilities often struggle with organizing long, bulky, or irregularly shaped inventory. Standard shelving may not accommodate these items effectively, leading to wasted space and inefficiencies. Investing in heavy duty shelving ensures that large and non-uniform materials are stored securely without compromising accessibility or structural integrity. For businesses handling construction materials, pipes, lumber,

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Automotive Storage

Space-Saving Strategies for the Modern Automotive Parts Storage

The automotive industry is booming, and with this growth comes the challenge of storing an ever-increasing variety of parts. Warehouses are under pressure to accommodate everything from small fasteners to large body panels, all while maintaining efficiency. There’s one essential aspect in space optimization strategies, and that is boltless shelving. Keep reading to discover how

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RiveTier Tire Rack: Boltless Shelving System Boosts Tire Storage Capacity and Safety in Texas

Custom-engineered a two-level RiveTier Tire Rack Storage solution featuring specialized tire rack bays, heavy-duty construction, and safety access, proving that Boltless Assembly can deliver a durable, efficient, and aesthetic solution for commercial automotive storage.

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Automotive Storage

Enhancing Safety and Efficiency in Automotive Manufacturing

Automotive manufacturing is a complex process that requires a high level of efficiency, accuracy, process flow, and safety. To achieve these objectives, manufacturers need reliable and efficient storage solutions to store and organize their parts, materials, tools, and equipment. The right storage solutions can help increase productivity, reduce waste, and enhance safety. In this blog

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Automotive Storage

Warehouse Automation and Robot-Friendly Shelves

Warehouse environments and designs are changing which can be mainly attributed to the advancements in technology. Rising labour costs and increasing availability of robotics and automation technologies is transforming warehouse infrastructure. What is warehouse automation? Warehouse automation is when warehouse operations and tasks are carried out by robots. This level of automation typically involves the

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RiveTier Tire Rack: Optimizing Space Management and Safety in Commercial Automotive Storage

Tires are one of the most challenging products to store efficiently. Learn how RiveTier Boltless Shelving provides a superior alternative to stacking, using Multilevel Systems to maximize vertical space, enhance safety, and create an organized, high-capacity solution.

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5 Expert Suggestions For Optimizing Spare Parts Management

1. Plan ahead for replacement of mission-critical parts Identification of mission critical parts that need replacing can sometimes feel like a plate-spinning exercise with no formula or strategy applied to it. However, by sticking with tried-and-tested practices, such as the stocking of parts that are replaced regularly and referrals to prior purchase reports, parts managers

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