waerhouseing communication infrastructure
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• Part of firms logistics system that stores products at and between point of origin and point of consumption.
• Term “Warehousing” is referred as transportation at zero miles per hour
• Warehousing provides time and place utility for raw materials, industrial goods, and finished products, allowing firms to use customer service as a dynamic value-adding competitive tool.
WAREHOUSE FUNCTIONS
ReservedStorage
OrderPicking
SecondarySorting
VENDOR
CUSTOMER
GoodsReceiving
Replenishment
Sorting & Cross-Docking
Collate/ Packing
Dispatch
Flow Of Goods
The warehouse is where the supply chain holds or stores goods.
Functions of warehousing include– Transportation consolidation– Product mixing– Docking– Service– Protection against contingencies
TYPE OF WAREHOUSING
• Public Warehousing
• Private Warehousing
• Contract Warehousing
• Multi-client Warehousing
Tote Box Pallet
STORAGE EXAMPLES
Storage/ Binning
Storing & Retrieval Using Reach Truck
• Receive goods
• Identify the goods
• Dispatch goods to
storage
• Hold goods
• Pick goods
• Marshal shipment
• Dispatch shipment
• Operate an
information system
WAREHOUSE ACTIVITIES
12Chapter 8 Management of Business Logistics, 7th Ed.
Basic Warehouse Operations
• Movement– Receiving– Put-away– Order picking– Shipping
• Storage– Stock location– Warehouse Management System
(WMS)