Need tips on new cabling job

Hey All,

I'm trying to improve our standards on how we do new cabling (make it more efficient and cleaner). Currently we are working on a proposal for a client as they need a lot of new cabling and some cleaning up. I have 2 main questions:

1- How do you run and number new cables?

• Running all the cables from the wall to the patch and toning them out afterwards?
• Labeling them at the port and cable end. Then patch them in order. (This is how we do it currently which is the cleanest but labour intensive. It also gets messed up if there ever need to be pulled new cables)

2- Where to run the cables?

The client currently has a couple of small network racks dispersed though the different parts of the stockroom which I'm not sure I'm a fan or not. The pro is that there is a clear small network rack per warehouse "room" which makes working in that specific room easy, but de-centralises the network equipment.

There will be a big (42u) network rack in the center of the warehouse which means that the furtest point of for cabling would be about 70 meters. It is perfectly doable to run all the cabling to the main rack. Only one smalle network rack would have to be completely re-done.

What is your oppinion on both how to do cabling? And should we keep the de-centralised setup there currently is or should we centralise?

Thanks upfront for the information, I'm looking to learn and grow!

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edit: some styling