Warehousing and Support Facilities

warehousing operations

Warehousing: storage and handling of goods ranging from receiving, recording, storage, selection, sorting, labeling until the delivery of goods.

Factors to consider:
- Transportation
- production
- Customer service
- The cost of logistics

Mission warehousing
1. Balance and buffer the variation of production and demand schedules.
2. As the product mix
3. To shorten the distance distribution

Function in Warehousing 

1. Movement of material: receiving transfer order selection shipping
2. storage while semi-permanent
3. transfer of information


Warehousing functions
(frazelle, 2002)

- Receiving
- prepackaging
- Put away
- storage
- Order picking
- Packing and or pricing
- sortation
- Loading and delivery

centralized receiving and shipping functions profit Maximizing the use of equipment maximize the use of  personal room efficiency reduction in facility costs constraints if not orderly arrangement of material flow can give rise to a chaotic.

Acceptance function
Accept all material that comes from internal and external suppliers check materials / goods that come examine the documents accompanying the material noting receipt of invoice note any quantity / quality of goods that do not fit reporting receipt of goods sent to storage.

Storage
This type of warehouse raw materials / spare parts / WIP finished goods goods for the purposes of  administration

Equipment
Equipment room
Space for all sizes of a particular type of equipment
made shelf-rise, with a maximum height of 180 cm 
alley / aisle just for employees and equipment
the types of equipment are grouped together and identified to be easily searchable