Introducing logistics

What is a warehouse?

a building that stores

products for stocking,
packing, and shipping
preparation.
Types of Warehouse
 cost in opening and management
of a warehosue

investment costs operating cost of risk running cost

costs

Purchase cost of the Raw materials, semi- Unsuitable Energy

property, the finished and finished packages, late consumption, plant
planning cost, and products receiving deliveries with maintenance,
the cost of and of order picking, respect to agreed insurance policies,
equipment. the packaging costs, terms safety measures
administrative costs
and the depreciation
rates.
 performance
parameters

parameters indeces

Surface utilization rate Potential receptivity

Volume utilization rate Throughput

 decision making
problems
PLANNING LEVEL
Decision
Making Area
Strategic Tactical Operational

Warehouse planning 
Allocation of the products at storage points  Pickup of products from the storage
Selection of warehouse              area                          
Storage
equipment              Choice of inventory policies for the products
Choice of warehouse in stock in the warehouse Consolidation of products in the loading unit
layout

Freight assignment on the transport

network             Vehicle Routing                                                  
Choice of Transport Mode                  
                    Vehicle Assignment     Repositioning of vehicles and empty
Distribution
Fleet sizing and              containers     
composition Crew Rostering Rosterin                            
Consolidation of the shipping orders
Determination of the vehicles to be rented
warehouse design

Site Selection

Choice of
warehouse systems

Choice of
warehouse layout
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Choice of warehouse system

Types of packages storage systems for packages

Primary package
(distribution units Static

Secondary package Dynamic

(parcel)

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Stacks Conventional Racks

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 Drive-in or
Multilevel shelvings
drive-through racks

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Cantilever racks Mobile racks

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 Lockers and Storage
drawer cabinets carousels

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Live pallet racks Push-back racks

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material handling systems

material-handling systems
without mobility constraints

material-handling systems
with mobility constraints

AGVS (automated guided

vehicle systems).

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 Counterbalanced forklift
Transpallet trucks
trucks

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Order pickers Stacker cranes

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Fixed conveyors Overhead conveyors

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Automated guided vehicle systems

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 identification systems

Bar Codes Logistic labels

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Smart tags

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Guidelines for the choice of
warehouse systems

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Choice of warehouse layout

the receiving zone

the storage zone

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Flow-through

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U-flow

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Hybrid

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SIZING of storage zone
Dedicated Storage Policy
each product is assigned to a pre-established set of
locations

Random Storage Policy

product allocation is decided dynamically on the
basis of the current warehouse occupation and on
future arrival and request forecasts.

Class-based Storage Policy

the products are divided into a number of
categories according to their demand, and each
category is associated with a set of zones where the
products are stored
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 Sizing of the
receiving zone research Shipping zone research

where;
d represents the average number of palletized load units entering the warehouse
in a predefined time horizon (e.g. a week),

t is the average time needed to unload a vehicle, q is the average capacity of

the vehicles and T is the average time available in the time horizon for the
vehicles’ unloading operations

T is the average time available in the time horizon for the vehicles’ unloading
operations
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 Tactical decisions for
warehouse logistics planning
Product allocation
to the storage locations
The allocation of products within the storage
zone of a warehouse is based on the
principle that fast moving products must be
placed closer to the I/O ports in order to
minimize the overall handling time.
Inventory management
Inventory management in a warehouse
requires decisions regarding the
replenishment modality (how much to order
of each product and when), aimed at
providing a pre-established level of service at
minimum cost.
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 Operational decisions for
warehouse logistics management

Package picking from the Package consolidation in

storage zone load units
‘order-to-picker' One-dimensional packing problems.
- often arise when dealing with high-density
‘picker-to-product’ items, in which case weight is binding.

Two-dimensional packing problems.

- usually arise when loading a pallet with
items having the same height.

Three-dimensional packing problems.

- occur when dealing with low-density items,
in which case volume is binding.

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