Pallet Racks in San Diego, CA

Racking for San Diego warehouses

San Diego warehousing is shaped by the border. Otay Mesa is the largest commercial border crossing complex in California, and much of the space there serves manufacturing plants in Tijuana: medical devices, electronics, automotive, food and beverage, e-commerce and more. Goods cross both ways, so one building often stages inbound components and outbound product at once.

That is a high SKU count against low case volume per SKU. Component and kit storage does not want depth, it wants faces, so we run single-deep selective rack with the bottom two levels given to hand picking, either carton flow lanes or a decked pick shelf, and full pallets in reserve above. Beam pitch comes in tight at the pick face and opens up higher, because a case pick needs reach and a reserve pallet needs clearance. Two-way flow also means two staging footprints and an aisle plan that keeps inbound and outbound apart at the dock.

Commodity class matters more than height in this market. Cartoned electronics and medical devices carry a lot of Group A plastic, and a high-hazard commodity changes what the sprinklers must cover at a lower stored height than ordinary goods. So we settle what is going on the rack before setting a top-of-storage elevation, because the class decides whether the layout you want is one the building can protect. Finding that out after the steel is up is expensive.

We handle both submittals, the city one and the fire one, so you are not at the counter.