DEFINITION AND FUNCTION WAREHOUSE

Warehouse can be defined as a place that impose a duty to keep the goods that will be used in the production of goods on request according to the production schedule. Since the first warehouse serves as a buffer or a counterweight to determine the next step of a company, whether the company will use the warehouse for commercial use or better on their own. In trade, the ministry warehouse in use for several different customers and generally have enough manpower and equipment. Then, with storage space for the purpose of satisfaction of consumers or users, storage is done within the limits of time and short time limits according to customer needs. Profits obtained from a commercial warehouse is suppleness (flexibility) and management professionals. Furthermore, as a storage warehouse of finished products have multiple missions or tasks. In the network marketing distribution, warehouse has several missions:

1. Keeping inventory is used as a counterweight and buffer (buffer) of the variation between production and demand scheduler
2. As a distribution warehouse in an area with the shortest transportation distance and to give a quick answer would be customer demand.
3. Warehouses used for the accumulation and strengthening the product in production and distribution.

As a storage warehouse products to meet customer demands quickly have multiple functions in the receiving and shipping of products. Basic warehouse functions as follows:

1. Receiving (reception) and delivery
2. Identifying and shorting (identification and filtering)
3. Dispatching (shipping) to storage.
4. Picking the order (order selection)
5. Storing (storage)
6. Assembling the order (order assembly)
7. Packaging
8. Dispatching the shipment (delivery)
9. Maintaining records (care products).

Generally, most of the company's warehouse is in the room. At the factory, we can distinguish kinds of warehouses according to the characteristics of the material to be deposited, namely:

1. Raw Material Storage: Vault will store any material required or used for the production process. Warehouse locations are generally located in the factory building, so the company can save the costs of storage because it does not require a special building for it. Warehouse so called because its function is well stockroom store stock for specific needs.
2. Storage of semi-finished goods: In the manufacturing industry, we often find that the work piece has to go through some kind of operation in the process. This procedure often had stalled because of a subsequent surgery required processing time is not the same. As a result, goods or materials have to wait until the machine or operator who is doing it. There are two kinds of semi-finished goods (work in process storage), namely: small amounts of materials and goods amounted to much
3. Finished Product Storage: Warehouses therefore sometimes also called the warehouse with the function of storing the products that have been completed. In the warehouse there are products that are durable and vice versa, and this depends on the form of warehouses in different variations, such as: circle, square, cube, and others.

In addition to the above three kinds of warehouse, there are several other kinds of warehouse needs to know:

1. For Suppliers Storage: Warehouses nonproductive goods storage and will be used for the work of packing, maintenance, and storage of office supplies.
2. Storage components so: Warehouse to store the components are ready assembled. Warehouse is commonly placed adjacent to the assembly area or can also be placed separately in the storage of semi-finished goods.
3. Salvage (rescue): In most of the production process, it is possible some will be wrong workpiece done. As a result, items requiring rework to repair, so the quality of production in the fix. Therefore, companies need an area to store any of the workpiece before reprocessing. Workpieces can not be repaired will be scrap or waste is placed in a separate location.
4. Waste : Warehouse used to store materials or components wrong way and could not be repaired.