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Warehouse or store - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A facility providing for the efficient
handling and storage of goods and materials in a planned space
environment
Stores and warehouses hold - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Raw materials, components
Finished goods
Goods returned by customers
Pallet - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A flat wooden struct ur w on which heavy goods are
placed and that allows forklift trucks to lift them and move them easily
Basic principles of stores and warehouse design - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Location- located to minimise movement of stock as much as possible
Space- sufficient for storing and handling the volumes of items that flow
through
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,Efficient operations
Purpose of warehouse design - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Create an effective
warehouse that does everything it should be expected to do
Support efficient warehouse operations
Choice of location should have objective to - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Minimise the
movement of stock
Minimise costs
Factory warehouse - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Serve parts of a factory usually the
production department, located as close to possible to the department that
use its services mostD
Distribution warehouse - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔serve a number of retail outlets , a
number of user factory sites, or a number of customers often over large
area,
Centralised warehouse - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Serving all customers in all
locations which has lower warehousing costs but higher transportation cost
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,Long distance bulk trunking - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Also known as primary
transport this is the cost of transporting stores and warehouse items from
their point of origin to the warehouse
Local frequent delievered - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Secondary transport is the cost
of transporting goods from warehouse to customer
RDC - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Regional Distribution Center
Transportation methods - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Road
rail
Air
Water
What goes into a warehouse - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Space and equipment for
storing items eg racking and shelving
Space and equipment for accessing and moving items eg materials
handling
Space for deliveries
Space for despatch
Packed area
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, Office space
Objectives of good warehouse design - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Make the best use
of the available space
Avoid congestion
Optimum throughput speed
Access
Minimise movement of stock and people
Minimise manual handling
Working conditions
Security and safety
Space required depends on the following factors - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Volumes
Quantities
Size
Special storage
efficient flow - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Depends on the location of stock items to
miniseries movement and the direct of movement to avoid congestion
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