IET 342

Lecture Assignment 1

Paula Mora

Q1: What do you understand by the term “Inventory and Warehouse Management”?

I understand that the term involves the processes developed to get certain products or goods
from their origin to the stores. Inventory means the stock available at a certain place that can be
counted and used for other processes or to be sold. A warehouse is where an industry can store its
products to sell them, count them, organize them, etc.

Q2: List 3 topics that are of most interest to you or you want to learn about in the Area of Warehouse
Management.

 Getting to know how warehouses store all the products they receive (space and location)
 How warehouses do inventory in an optimal way because there must be products coming and
leaving everyday
 What are the specific jobs of the people who work at a warehouse

Q3: Identify a daily used product. Places of origin and the location of markets where it is sold.

Pasta

Pasta is consumed or bought daily around the world. Wheat is planted and collected on farms and then,
processed in industries that distribute them to stores for consumption. If we focus on the United States,
some examples of suppliers are Ready Foods, General Mills, Mr. Greens Produce, and around 50 others.
Those are the places of pasta origin, then, the product is distributed to different stores and locations
around the USA such as Target, Walmart, Costco, and others. Finally, consumers are able to purchase
them at these locations.

References

Thomasnet.com (n.d.). Pasta Suppliers. Retrieved on January 9, 2022 from

https://www.thomasnet.com/products/pasta-96035167-1.html