Figure 5.2: Shelving, or static rack. (Adapted from “Warehouse Modernization and Layout Planning Guide”, Department of the Navy, Naval Supply Systems Command,NAVSUP Publication 529, March 1985, p 8–17.)Simple shelving is the most basic storage mode and the least expensive (Figure 5.2).The shelves are shallow: 18 or 24 inches (0.46 or 0.61 meters) are typical, for example,but 36 inch (0.91 met er) deep shelf is sometimes used for larger cartons. Because the shelves are shallow, any signifificant quantity of a SKU must spread out along the pick-face. This reduces SKU-density and therefo...