Chapter 10 - Warehousing management
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
A U.S. federal agency that regulates workplaces to ensure the safety of workers
Contract Warehousing
A long term, mutually beneficial arrangement which provides unique and specially tailored warehousing and logistics services exclusively to one client, where the censor and client share the risks associated with the operation
Hazardous material
Any item or agent which has the potential to cause harm to humans, animals, or the environment, either by itself or through interaction with other factors
Receiving
-Confirms receipt -Creates cutaway label -Directs stock to active or reserve location
Order picking
-Prioritizes orders -Prints pick tickets for best sequence -Prints labels for packing operations
Shipping
-Suggests shipping route -Creates shipping documents -Calculaties shipping cost
Verification
-Uses bar code scanning to verify order -Prints labels for shipping carton contents
Assorting
Building up a variety of different products for resale to particle customers
Fixed slot location
Each SKU has one or more permanent slots assigned to it
Distribution centers
Emphasize the rapid movement of products through a facility, and thus they attempt to maximize throughput
Warehouses
Emphasizes the storage of products, and their primary purpose is to maximize the usage of available storage space
Allocating
Involves breaking larger quantities into smaller quantities
Accumulating
Involves bringing together similar stocks from different sources, as might be done by
Variable slot location
Involves empty storage slots being assigned to incoming products based on space availability
Regrouping function
Involves rearranging the quantities and assortment of products as they move through the supply chain and can take four forms - accumulating, allocating, assorting, and sorting out
Public Warehousing
Is suppose to serve all legitimate users and has certain responsibilities to those users
Dunnage
Material that is used to block and brace products inside carrier equipment to prevent the shipment from shifting in transit and becoming damaged
Multiclient warehousing
Mixes attributes of contract and public warehousing, has become popular in the first part of the twenty-first century
Private Warehousing
Owned by the firm storing goods in the facility; private warehousing generates high fixed costs and thus should only be considered by companies dealing with large volumes of inventory
Sorting out
Separating products into grades and qualities desired by different target markets
Warehousing
That part of a firm's logistics system that stores products (raw materials, parts, goods-in-process, finished goods) at and between points of origin and point of consumption
Throughput
The amount of product entering and leaving a facility in a given time period
Cross-Docking
The process of receiving product and shipping it out the same day or overnight without putting it into storage
Reasons for Warehousing
To effectively and efficiently meet the firm's logistics objectives by protecting the inventories that: -support the customer service objective (ensuring availability) -smooth production (covering demand peaks) -allow the firm to to advantage of economies in procurement, production, and transportation -support from postponement (final assembly)
Warehouse automation
Utilizing mechanical or electronic devices to substitute for human labor