Storage and Warehousing
Storage and Warehousing
Storage and Warehousing
INTRODUCTION
Many manufacturing and distribution companies maintain large warehouse to store WIP and components received from external suppliers Warehousing is a time-consuming activity that does not add value (Waste) JIT philosophy suggests that companies should do away with any kind of temporary storage and maintain a pull strategy
INTRODUCTION
But, due to the need to maintain a sufficient inventory of items (unreliability of suppliers), to improve customer service, respond to their need quickly make it not possible to completely do away with the temporary storage. Nike has recently built a large distribution warehouse in Belgium to serve 75% of customers within 24 hours, because many of its manufacturing plants and suppliers are overseas in the Far East.
INTRODUCTION
Members club stores allow members to shop in their stores. They sell merchandise in bulk and directly out of their warehouse and hence eliminating the need to build and maintain costly retail stores. These two examples indicate the need for establishing warehouses to service customers despite the lack of value-added services in many of them.
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Large Retail
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WAREHOUSE FUNCTIONS
The main function of a warehouse is warehousing that is the temporary storage of goods Warehouses also perform other functions:
Provide temporary storage of goods Put together customer orders Serve as a customer service facility Protect goods Segregate hazardous or contaminated material Perform value-added services Inventory
Sort/Accumulate
Pack/Ship
Receiving - receive incoming product Reserve - store products efficiently (pallets) Value-add - transform products (labeling, kitting) Pick-line - store product so that it can be picked efficiently (cases/items) Pack/ship - package and ship products
There is also a building enclosing the storage medium, the goods, and the storage/retrieval (S/R) system. Warehouses come in different shapes, sizes, and heights depending on such factors goods stored, the volume, the type of S/R used.
Storage Media
The primary reasons for using storage racks: Maximizing space utilization in a warehouse. Each rack has multiple storage spaces The types of storage racks (See Fig. 12.212.6)
Stacking frames Cantilever racks
Item-to-person
The items come to the end of an aisle and then send them (by an operator or a transportation mechanism) to their point of use (e.g. flow racks, food vending machines, etc.)
WAREHOUSE DESIGN
How many and where to locate warehouses? Layout of warehouse Location and Layout of Docks Rack Design Block Staking Storage Policies Design Models for storage policies
Warehouse Location
Three main questions that need to be answered
How many warehouses must be built? Where should each warehouse be built? How large should each warehouse be?
Rack Design
The required length and width of the warehouse depend on the number of items to be stored, number of storage spaces required, number of rows and columns of racks, and height. Askin and Standridge, 1993 developed a model to determine the length and width of the warehouse (called Model 1).
Block Staking
Used when the item is not fragile and a box or carton is strong enough to bear two or three levels of similar boxes or cartons, and the inventory turn over is high. For such item, we may be able to stack up pallets to a desired level (called block stacking) For a fixed aisle width, stacking height, and lot size, what depth of storage maximizes space utilization? ( See a simple formula developed by Kind,1975)
Storage Policies
Random storage policy Dedicated policy Cube-per-order index (COI) Class-based storage policy Shared storage policy
WAREHOUSE OPERATIONS
The manager of a warehouse faces numerous problems:
What is the sequence in which orders are to be picked up? How frequently are orders to be picked up from the high-rise storage area? Should we consider batch picking operations, or should we pick whenever an order comes in? Is there a limit on the number of items picked? If so, what is the limit?
WAREHOUSE OPERATIONS
How are operators to be assigned to stacker cranes? How do we balance the picking operators workload? Do we release items from the stacker crane into the sorting stations in batches or as soon as the item is picked? Surveys have shown that order picking is more than 50% of the activities in a warehouse.
Zone picking
An operator assigned to a zone is responsible for picking only items in an order that are within his/her zone
WAREHOUSING
PERENCANAAN FASILITAS
WAREHOUSING
Warehousing is expensive 2-5% of cost of sales Warehouse is playing a more vital role in the success (or failure) of businesses today than it ever has
Warehouse Activities
PROFILING
Warehouse KPI