WAREHOUSING DECISIONS

WAREHOUSING DECISIONS

1. Nature and Importance of Warehousing

   • warehousing as the storage of goods.
   • It creates time utility for raw materials, industrial goods, and finished products
   • This definition includes a wide spectrum of facilities and locations that provide warehousing, including the storage of iron ore in open fields. the storage of finished goods in the production facility, and the storage of raw materials, industrial goods, and finished goods while they are in transport.

2. Basic Warehousing Decisions

3. Basic Warehouse Operations

4. Warehouse layout and Design

   • Layout and design principles
   • Warehouse layout's protection and efficiency objectives provide a good framework for determining the use of warehouse space.
     • effective utilization of space in the warehouse, which means utilizing the facility's height and minimizing aisle space.
     • The second efficiency dimension is the placement of stock in the warehouse so as to minimize labor costs or handling costs.

5. Materials Handling

   • important to any warehouse's efficient operation, both in terms of transferring goods in and out and in moving goods to various locations in the warehouse.
     • four dimensions: movement, time, quantity, and space.
   • Objectives

6. Packaging

   • packaging function is to provide information about the product the package contains
     • package's physical dimensions
     • package shape.
     • package's strength

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