Warehouses: A Guide To What They Are & What They're For

When your business has a product to sell to customers, storing and distributing them are important aspects to ensure your company’s success.

 

Warehouses undertake to preserve goods so as to maintain their value and quality. As such, understanding the basic objectives of storing and shipping your product can help to maximise your chances of optimal performance. This will also help you determine your overall purpose for your warehouse for better design considerations.

 

If you’re on the hunt for a storage warehouse for rent, start by understanding all the objectives and functions of one.

For many small business owners and e-commerce businesses, the main objective for seeking a cheap warehouse for rent is to store inventory. Even if you just set up your business, your spare bedroom or small office space might not be an optimal choice. Eventually, you will need a space to store a large volume of inventory safely at an affordable cost as your business grows and scales up.

 

For instance, importers, exporters, and wholesalers, are all industries that use warehouses to keep track of their inventory and supply chains. 

 

Warehouses also need to provide easy access to your inventory. When you are able to quickly locate, load and ship your product, this means you get to provide efficient service to your customers and maintain satisfactory levels.

 

If you’re looking for a warehouse space, our property at 18 New Industrial Road offers warehouses as well as ancillary offices for rent that are suitable for e-commerce, start-ups and small businesses. It is highly accessible near KPE with a short walking distance to Bartley and Tai Seng MRT stations. This 6-storey B1 industrial building offers a façade facelift and revamped layout with a corporate-looking exterior. Unit sizes range from 646 to 2,626 sqft – furnished with windows, lights and aircon in selected units. Within the premises, our subsidiary, also available to provide work and storage unit options where entrepreneurs or smaller teams can work in a conducive environment. Facilities include 20-footer access, 2 loading bays, 24-hour access & CCTV, nearby F&B and complimentary parking lot.

The importance of many industrial warehouses can be categorised into the following: 

 

Storing: Because warehouses are really big spaces, it provides a location where inventory and goods can be stored. Instead of keeping thousands of products on a shop’s shelves, warehouses store all excess goods before sending more items to the store location. Even without a storefront, like e-commerce businesses, a dedicated space is required for the storage of inventory.

 

Meets demand: Especially with products that are imported from other countries, warehouses store popular products that are highly in demand by consumers. When products are manufactured, they are shipped to different warehouses before going on sale in shops or online. This allows businesses to have some goods ready in the warehouse and provide a much more efficient service to consumers.

 

Preserve and ship goods: Warehouses serve as a place to hold, protect and preserve the goods until they are required to be shipped. Certain items are only required in a particular season, such as holiday decorations. This enables such items to be stored in the warehouse to meet the seasonal demand before they get packed and dispatched to the final destination.

 

With a proper space to safekeep goods and build a system to coordinate the necessary activities, warehouses can provide plenty of benefits for your business. Our property at Depot Lane offers warehouses and light industrial spaces for rent, with units ranging from 4,391 to 4,420 sqft. They are furnished with lights and have a ceiling height of 4.5m and 15kN/m2 floor loading capacity. The property has a unique feature in which it provides easy loading setup right in front of the unit. Located in Bukit Merah district, tenants can benefit from a ground floor warehouse in a centralised and developed area. It is well connected to parts of Singapore via Jalan Bukit Merah and AYE. The nearest train stations are located at Redhill MRT and Telok Belangah MRT, with bustops nearby at Depot Road for easy daily commute. Facilities include column-free layout, 40-footer access, 24-hour access and season parking for heavy vehicles and cars/small lorries.