Warehousing management

Conceptual discussion
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Warehousing serves to facilitate the arrangement and assortment of products through the
supply chain. And inside people accumulate and assort inventories.

For the end goal, warehousing helps companies to be closer to the end market and reduce
transportation cost.

With that being said warehouse size is determined by the number of sales, the number of
territories warehouses serve and the amount of space you need for those requirements.

Type of warehouse
Manufacturing support WH
Mixing WH
Consolidation warehouse
Break bulk WH
Cross docking WH
Public WH
Contract warehouse
Shipments from multiple
suppliers packaged and sent
to factories (JIT)
Mixing full container load
products with other
materials
Similar to manufacturing
support WH
Receiving big shipments and
deliver small part of them to
every customer
A WH where products are
being docked on another
outgoing vehicle shortly after
instead of being stored
sharing warehousing space
among customers.
providing custom warehouse
requirements to a customer
Less deliveries
Able to provide exact mix of
components.
An example is the food
distributor. they receive
shipments of different kinds
of food, and customers just
gotta pick.
for example, collectors would
collect coffee from different
plantations before sending
them off to the traders.
Freight forwarders who
receive a truckload of
shipments then break down
the deliveries to many
customers.
Fixed slot location is when an SKU is assigned to a permanent location. Variable slot location, on
the other hand, an empty space is automatically assigned to an incoming product. The former
requires inventory tracking whereas the latter requires sophisticated tracking techniques.

Warehouses with two docks receives shipment from one dock and ships away products on the
other dock.

Warehouses with one dock receives and ships products at the same dock.

When it comes to deciding how to best stock the products, Fast moving goods should be stored
in warehouses near the market while slow movers need to be centralized somewhere else.

Warehousing management systems (WMS) does a total of four things: Receiving - ordering
verification - shipping

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