Facilities Layout and Planning

1. What are the functional scope of material handling equipment within an industry?
2. Discuss about the negative aspect of material handling equipment?
3. What are the different material handling principles?
4. Explain the types of material handling equipment?
5. What are the factors that must be considered while designing the layout of the warehouse?
6. What are the different areas that should be considered by the designer based on the operations
performed in the warehouse before designing starts?
7. What is integrated into the facility in warehouse and how this is related to loading and
unloading area?
8. What are the advantages of integrated into the facility in warehouse?
9. What are the different techniques used in integrated warehouse for loading and unloading the
materials?
10. How is independent loading and unloading areas is different from integrated one? What are
their advantages over one another?
11. What are the different techniques used in independent warehouse for loading and unloading
the materials?
12. What is reception area and for what purpose it is used in warehouse?
13. Compare the stacking and racking method?
14. How dispatch area and loading & unloading area is interrelated?
15. What is warehouse and warehouse management?
16. What is the role of warehouse in supply chain management?
17. What are the different types of warehouse based on the ownership?
18. What are the different factors that organization must consider while designing the warehouse?
19. What the different operations performed in the warehouse? Explain each.
20. Represent the flow of operations inside the warehouse.
21. What are the different strategies used in the warehouse for storing the products?
22. Describe the evolution of warehouse? Also explain in detail the features of Modern smart and
sustainable Warehouse?
23. What is warehouse management system? What are the advantages of using this?
24. What are the essential features that a company should look before buying the WMS?
25. What are the different lean method to improve the warehouse performance?