Warehousing & Material Handling

LogisticsChapter 1

Warehouse Storage Just-in-time Backroom-to-shelf Logical Postponement Kitting Material Handling

Logistics Movement Purposeful

Key Terms

• Control• Tracking• Protection• Staging & Routing• Unit/Pallets

A warehouse is more than a physical entity, it is a place where “warehousing” takes place

List types of warehouses

The term Warehouse…

Supply & Demand A Warehouse is NOT simply a location where

things are kept.

The warehouse is an active place where materials are received, housed in a logical fashion and are distributed according to the needs that they will serve.

Purpose of Warehousing

1 of 3 things happens to materials that arrive at the warehouse door.

Generally materials or items are brought in a warehouse and stored.

Little is done to these materials except that they are “checked in” and sent to a prearranged storage location within the confines of the warehouse.

Storage

The warehouse serves as a supplier of production efforts.

Materials needed for production are warehoused for only a short period of time when it is possible to schedule their arrival “just-in-time” for use by the production workers.

Just-In-Time

The backroom is the storage area The shelf is the area where smaller lots of

items are placed for use in an order-picking operation

Backroom-to-shelf

The key word in warehousing is the root term of the term logistics-”logical”

The process must “make sense” and the processes involved in warehousing must be efficient and safe for all involved.

Logical

The materials may be stored in the warehouse and their movement out of the warehouse may be literally “postponed” as personnel are asked to “add value” to them prior to shipping them to their final destination.

Postponement

Can often be seen in the preparation of medically related items such as surgical kits.

kitting

1. What is the best description of a warehousea. Location where things are keptb. A supply and demand systemc. Active place where things are received, housed,

and distributedd. Logistics process

QUIZ

a. kittingb. packettingc. formattingd. quantifying

2. Placing materials into special packaging or breaking them down into smaller quantities or combining one item with others into a single packet is called

a. Accession, expansion, distribution, and transportation

b. Movement, storage, control and protection of materials

c. Manufacture, configuration, bulking, and systematizing of materials

d. Time, space, depth, and speed of materials

3. The four basic components of materials handling logistics are

a. Flow of materialsb. Storage of materialsc. Movement of materialsd. Tracking of materials

4. Control in a material handling process basically means

a. The place where materials are handledb. A physical entity for the storage of

materialsc. The flow of material in a warehouse pland. A process that adds structure to housing

materials

5. The term warehousing means

a. Larger quantity of materials that are considered to make shipment easier

b. Process of shipping larger quantities of materials

c. Load of only one kind of materiald. Small quantity of materials that is

recombined with other materials

6. A unit load is