If you run your own medium to large business with large amounts of inventory, equipment and employees, business warehouse storage will be a great asset with your business. Here we offer you the ultimate guide to business warehouse storage and how Cinch Self Storage will be the best option for your business. 

When you first start your business, you will have goals that you want to achieve. These may start out small, like getting a certain amount of sales by the end of your first month. But, as you keep going, your goals will get bigger. You will want more sales. You will want to hire employees. Your business continuing to grow and thrive will become your ultimate goal. 

This does not always happen. Within the UK, there are by far more small businesses than they are medium and large. In 2024, there were 5.45 million small businesses in comparison to 37,800 medium businesses and 8,250 large businesses. 

Of course, this could be due to some people wanting to keep their businesses on the smaller side. Many people run a business alongside a full time job and so want to keep it small in order to do both. Some people want to make sure their business does not take over their life as they started their own business in order to make work work around their family. 

Unfortunately, for some it is that the small businesses do not last long enough to become a medium or large business. This is often due to not getting the right support that will allow your business to thrive. 

Business warehouse storage is one such support that will help your business to grow and thrive. But, you need to pick the right business warehouse storage and, in order to do that, you need to know what you should be on the lookout for and what your business actually needs. 

This guide will walk you through the essentials of business warehouse storage and will let you know why you should be choosing Cinch Self Storage. 

What Is Business Warehouse Storage? 

Business warehouse storage is the storage you need when your business has outgrown a standard storage unit. Warehouse storage is designed with larger businesses in mind that need large amounts of storage space for inventory, equipment and for their employees to work. 

There are many important factors when it comes to choosing good business warehouse storage:

• Scalability, so your business can continue to grow 
• Flexibility, so you can actually change your warehouse storage when you need to

You need both of these within your business warehouse storage in order for your business to continue to grow and thrive to the best of its ability. Cinch Self Storage offers both scalability and flexibility. It is of great importance to us that your self storage always works for you and your business. 

The Key Components Of Business Warehouse Storage 

Along with the important factors, there are some key components to business warehouse storage that you should be aware of when looking for the right storage solutions for your business. 

Storage Units

Although, if your business has grown to the point of needing business warehouse storage, a storage unit will not provide you with enough room to store your inventory and equipment but having access to storage units, alongside your warehouse, will be a huge benefit. For example, if you are wanting to store your business documents, a separate storage unit will be an excellent solution. 

At Cinch Self Storage, we offer storage units and warehouses within many of our stores. 

Ability To Add Racking Systems 

Racking systems are the structures that can be set up within business warehouses so business can store inventory in an organised manner. Within the business warehouse storage you choose, these either need to already be in place or the storage company needs to be okay with you adding them. Being able to add them yourself is often beneficial as you can add as much as you need and use the rest of the space for equipment, packing orders etc. 

At Cinch Self Storage, we are very happy for you to add racking and/or shelving to our storage units and warehouses. We want your storage to work in a way that really helps your business. 

Material Handling Equipment 

A key component of using a business warehouse storage is that you have access to the right manual handling equipment. This includes equipment like trolleys, pallet trucks and forklifts. 

At Cinch Self Storage, we can offer you access and use of trolleys and pallet trucks which will make moving your inventory easier. We also have drive-up units which make access extremely easy. 

How Business Warehouse Storage Will Help Your Business

Business warehouse storage holds a multitude of benefits for your business. Here, we will delve into some of the top benefits of using it. 

Inventory Management

One of the greatest benefits of using business warehouse storage is that you will have much better inventory management as you will have the space to be highly organised, making picking orders and stock checks much easier. 

Having good inventory management will help to mean that you can optimise stock levels, avoid overstocking and having any stockouts. Overstocking and stockouts are both problems as overstocking will use capital that could be used elsewhere within your business and stockouts lead to “missed sales opportunities and can damage customer relationships if the product is always unavailable.” 

Increased Productivity 

Better inventory management will also increase productivity for you and your employees. Being able to easily find every item you sell will lead to order being picked quicker. Having the space to package orders within your business warehouse will mean that items will be picked and packaged faster. This will lead to orders going out to customers faster which will help to build a good relationship with your customer base. 

Cost Effective

Using business warehouse storage will be more cost effective as warehouses are often within central locations which will cut down on transport and logistics costs. 

All of our Cinch Self Storage stores are located within central locations making them easily accessible for you, your employees and your deliveries. 

Scalability And Flexibility 

As your business continues to grow, you will continue to need more space. Business warehouse storage, with the right storage company, will allow you to scale up (or scale down) your warehouse storage whenever you need. There will be a need for communication with the storage team. 

At Cinch Self Storage, in order to change your business storage warehouse, you will need to have a chat with the store team and they will make the changes happen as soon as possible. 

Security 

All professional business warehouse storage will come with a high level of security. This will ensure that your inventory, equipment and employees are always safe. 

All of our storage units are equipped with an alarm and smoke and fire detectors. There is also 24/7 CCTV surveillance around every Cinch Self Storage store. 

What You Need To Think About When Choosing Business Warehouse Storage 

There are some areas that you must consider and questions you should ask yourself when you are choosing business warehouse storage. 

What Are You Storing?

The first thing you really need to think about is what you are actually going to be storing. Does it need any kind of special storage requirements? Are you sure what you want to store is an allowed item? All self storage facilities will have a list of prohibited items. Please find Cinch Self Storage’s list here. 

How Much Do You Need To Store?

Next, you need to think about how much you need to store, now but also in the future. Is your business growing at a fast rate? Do you have busy periods and then slower periods? Are you in a busy period now or a slower period? 

You need to think about all of this and the level of flexibility that is on offer at each of the storage facilities you are looking at. 

At Cinch Self Storage, we offer complete flexibility. This means that if you need to upsize or downsize your business warehouse storage, you are free to do so. You simply need to have a chat with your store team and they will help make it happen as quickly as possible. If you do have periods that are busier than others, you can add extra storage to cover this time period and then go back to your regular storage when the busy period is over. 

When Do You Need To Access Your Business Warehouse Storage? 

Finally, you need to really think about when you need to access your business warehouse storage and whether the storage companies you are looking at offer the right kind of hours. 

At Cinch Self Storage, we offer convenient access hours, outside of our office hours. This is subject to the customer’s needs and the store discretion so you will need to let your store team know the hours that you need access and they will work with you to make that happen. 

Business Warehouse Storage: The Ultimate Guide

The warehouse industry has seen exponential growth. Over five years through to 2024/25, the UK warehousing and storage industry is expected to expand at a compound annual rate of 5.6% to £36.3 billion. And this growth is expected to continue through to 2030. Having so many options to choose from makes it hard to know whether a warehouse is actually right for you, who is offering the best type of warehousing and what you should be on the lookout for. 

We hope this guide has helped you to see why you need business warehouse storage, the benefits they hold and what you should be considering when looking at warehousing options. 

Also, we hope it has helped you to see all that Cinch Self Storage has to offer. We have stores across the UK so if you would like to enquire about our warehouse storage, please click here to find your local store.