Warehouse
At the far back of the facility is by far the largest of all of the buildings. It’s clear right away where we are though, this is the warehouse. Most people wouldn’t get too excited but for me, I was really curious to see what kind of hardware they keep on hand. Frankly I was a little shocked at the size of the warehouse, but they do have a lot of product going through. The warehouse is split up in to three areas. The area you walk into first runs the length of the building and is where all of the semi bays are. Although I got to this area well after the factory closed down for the day they did still have a few people here up and running. I’m sure that it gets much crazier in the time before UPS and FedEX show up as well. The second section is where everything is stored. I tried to get a picture to capture the size and amount of the bins, but frankly no one picture could fit it all in.
There are around 12 complete rows of bins along with a long bin that actually helps device this area from the bay area. Each bin is floor to ceiling for the most part allowing them to fit four full height pallets. Then each row is extremely long as well. On top of that important or high volume items are also stacked on the end of some isles for quicker access.
As you can imagine, their warehouse was packed full of both fully built systems as well as the parts that are needed to build them. I saw pallets and pallets of the new Bit Fenix Prodigy, Corsair’s new Vengeance C70 gaming case, and literally over an entire row top to bottom of the Cooler Master HAF 912 that they use for a lot of their builds.
The third and final are of the warehouse that we took a look at was their recycling area. Spending a little time in this area was actually depressing for me, but still a great representation of how the company operates. Systemax recycles anything and everything that they could possibly recycle both from the factory and their offices. That means we saw pallets of soda and pop bottles as well as paper. Then where I really was heartbroken, we also was pallets of motherboard, PSU’s, cases, add in cards/gpu’s, ect. It’s great to see that they are handling these things correctly, but it was still hard not to want to cover my walls in motherboards when standing next to them all.
