Warehouse Management-Session 1 & 2-Aug 23 & 24

8/3/2019 Warehouse Management-Session 1 & 2-Aug 23 & 24

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Warehouse Management

Warehouse & InventoryManagement


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What is a Warehouse ?

Under the Warehousing(Development andRegulation) Act, 2007, warehouse has beendefined :

- as any premises(including any protected place),

- confirming to all the requirements,

- including manpower specified by the Authorityby regulations,

- wherein the warehouseman takes custody ofthe goods deposited by the depositor and

- includes a place of storage of goods undercontrolled conditions of temperature andhumidity.


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Introduction-Warehousing

Holding or preserving goods in hugequantities from time of theirpurchase or production till theiractual use or sale.

Bridges gap between production andconsumption of goods.

Need for storage arises both for rawmaterial as well as finished products.

Storage in large scale & in specifiedmanner is Warehousin .


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Warehouses built in all shapes andsizes.

Form facilities of 1000 sq.ft storage &

handling Large scale intensive installations

1,00,000 pallet-plus range.

Conventional Warehousing Rackingand shelving with fok-lift or even manualopeations.

Modern Warehousing Fully automated

systems with conveyors and automated


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How a Warehouse Should be ?

In the Warehouse certain specific parameters has to bemaintain which provides easy and fast handling of thestored cargo / goods.

The plinth level to be constructed at a certain specificheight, the floor of the warehouse to be constructed withsome specific materials and type with a certain loadbearing capacity, the clear height of the warehouse shouldbe specific.

There should be proper ventilation majors should bemaintain at the time of operation inside the warehouse.


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It should be properly well equipped with properequipments to protect the stored cargo / goods inside thewarehouse from any untoward incidents.

The warehouse should be constructed in such a fashion that

modern equipments / machineries can be used inside thewarehouse for storing and handling of the cargo / goods.

The warehouse should be constructed in such a fashion thatavailability of natural light inside should be proper whichreduces the consumption of electricity.

Some basic facilities are required inside the warehouse forthe staff and workers working in the warehouse should bethere.


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Traditional Fortlifts Vs AGVs

Conventional Fortlifts

Controlled by HumanBeings

Operated by onlyduring work hours bytaking break.

Time wastage occursand possibility of latedeliveries.

Automated Guided

Vehicles

Controlled by the laserscanner guidance

system AGVs can operate 24/7

without taking a break

Reduce time wasted

waiting for latedeliveries


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Need for Warehousing


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Issues affecting Warehousing

Market & Product base Stability - Long termmarket potential for growth, space for prospectiveexpansion.

Type of Materials to be handled - can include rawmaterials, WIP, OEM Auto spare parts,packaging materialsand finished goods

1.Warehouse Facility:a. Type

b. Sizec. Location

4. Inventory & its Location.


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Sequence of Warehousing Decisions

Ownership

Private Public

How many

Centralized Decentalized

What Size

Where (Location)

Interior Layout

What Products,

Where


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Private Warehouse

Users : Owned and managed by the

manufacturers or traders to store, exclusively,their own stock of goods.

Example : Constructed by the farmers near their

fields, by wholesalers and retailers near theirbusiness centres and by manufacturers near theirfactories.

Designed & Facilities : According to the natureof products to be stored.


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Public Warehouses

Users : To store goods of general public.Users hasto pay rent.

Owners : May be an individual, a partnership firm

or a company .

Example : manufacturers, wholesalers,exporters,importers, government agencies, etc.

Regulated by : To start such warehouses alicence from the government is required. Thegovernment also regulates the functions and

operations of these warehouses.


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Bonded Warehouses

Purpose : To store imported goods for whichimport duty is yet to be paid.

Owners : Owned, managed and controlled by

government as well as private agencies. Privatebonded warehouses have to obtain licence fromthe government.

Example : Generally owned by dock authoritiesand found near the ports.


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Co-operative Warehouses

Owners : Owned, managed and controlled by co-operative societies.

Users : Warehousing facilities at the mosteconomical rates to the members of their society.


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Functions of Warehouses

Receiving-This includes the physical unloading of incomingtransport, checking, recording of receipts, and decidingwhere the received goods are to be put away in thewarehouse

Inspection- Quality and quantity check of the incoming

goods for their required characteristics. Repacking - materials have to be pre packed in unit

loads/pallet loads suitable for storage.

Put away Binning and storing the goods in theirrespective locations including the temp locations from the

receiving docking area. Storage Binning the approved material in their

respective locations.

Order-Order picking / selection Picking often involvesbreak bulk operations, when goods are received from

suppliers in, say, whole pallet quantities, but ordered bycustomers in less than allet uantit .


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Continue.. Sortation This enable goods coming into a warehouse to

be sorted into specific customer orders immediately onarrival. The goods then go directly to order collation.

Packing and shipping Picked goods as per the customerorder are consolidated and packed according to customerorder requirement. It is shipped according to customerorders and respective destinations.

Cross-docking Move products directly from receiving tothe shipping dock these products are not at all stored inthe specific locations.

Replenishing This is the movement of goods in largerorder quantities, for example a whole pallet at a time ,

from reserve storage to order picking, to ensure that orderpicking locations do not become empty. Maintaining stock


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Factors affecting no: ofWarehouses


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Graph showing Total Cost on Number ofWarehouses


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Warehouse Management-Session 1 & 2-Aug 23 & 24

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