Objectives of Material Handling:

a) Minimize cost of material handling

b) Minimize delays and interruptions by making available the materials at the point of use at
right quantity and at right time.
c) Prevention of damages to materials.

Principles of Material Handling:

1. Planning Principle:
2. Motion Principle
3. Capacity Principle
4. Systems Principle
5. Control Principle
6. Gravity Principle
7. Space utilization principle
8. Idle time Principle
9. Maintenance Principle
10. Unit load Principle
11. Dead-weight Principle
13. Safety Principle
14. Mechanization Principle
15. Standardization Principle
16. Simplification Principle
17. Equipment Selection Principle
18. Flexibility Principle
19. Material Flow Principle
20. Obsolesces Principle
c. Selection of Material Handling
1. Cost considerations
2. Nature of operations
3. Equipment reliability
Scope of Material Management:
Functions responsible for the coordination of planning, sourcing, purchasing, moving, storing
and controlling materials in an optimum manner so as to provide a pre-decided service to the
customer at a minimum cost.
Material planning and control
Purchasing
Store management
Inventory Management
Other related functions

Organization of Physical Facilities:

1. Factory Building
2. Lighting
3. Climatic conditions

Techniques of Inventory Control:

1. Economic Order Quantity
2. Standardization
3. Simplification
4. Just in time manufacturing
5. Value analysis framework

Codification:
Advantages
Systematic grouping of similar items
Simplification and standardization
Avoiding duplication of an items
Recognition of an items in stores