Warehouse Management:

Receiving & Put away

Introduction
Major areas require innovation warehouse operation :
Receiving and Put away
Pallet Storage & retrieval Operations
Case Storage & retrieval Operations
Small Item Storage & retrieval Operations
Order Picking
Unitizing & Shipping
Material Flow & Warehouse Layout
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Introduction
Warehouse productivity
Complete automation
100% direct shipment or cross docking
Simplifying traditional receiving and put away

Receiving
Reduction in handling steps
i.
ii.
iii.
iv.
v.

Direct Shipping
Cross-docking
Receiving scheduling
Pre-receiving
Receipt preparation

Receiving
i. Direct (Drop) Shipping
Vendor bypass warehouse, ship directly to customer
Saved labor, time, and equipment :
Unloading, staging, put away, replenish , pick pack, check, stage
and loading

Where DS
Bulky items
Made to order
Regular shipment of TL

Especially used in
Food industry

Receiving
ii Cross-docking

In C.D

Loads are scheduled for delivery into the

warehouse from vendors
Inbound materials are sorted immediately
into their outbound orders
Receiving staging or inspection is not
required
Product Storage is not required
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Receiving
ii Cross-docking
Elimination of
Receiving, inspection, staging, put away, storage, pick location
replenishment, order picking and order assembly

For effective C.D:

Containerization is required
RF tag to container
Loads scheduling into the DC and dock door
Pallets or cases should contain single SKU
Or
Pallets or case should be preconfigured for their destination to
minimize sorting
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Receiving
ii Cross-docking
Where C.D (Where Sense of urgency is high):
Back orders
Special orders
Transfer orders

Normal orders

Receiving
iii Receiving scheduling

Schedule inbound loads to match

outbound requirements
Important for balancing the use of
receiving resources (personnel, staging
space etc)
Advance Shipping Notice (ASN)
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Receiving
iv. Pre-receiving
Managing location, assignment & other receiving
information in advance
Rationale for staging
location assignment
Product identification etc

Information can be captured in advance about:

Inbound load
Load contents
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Receiving
v. Receipt Preparation
Prepackaging in issue increment
Applying necessary labels
Cubing and weighing for storage & transport
planning

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Putaway

Direct putaway
Directed putaway
Batched and sequenced putaway
interleaving

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Putaway
1. Direct putaway
Putaway directly to primary or reserve
locations
No staging & inspection
Automated storage putaway vehicles
2. Directed putaway
WMS directed putaway
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Putaway
3. Batched and sequenced putaway
Sorting inbound material for efficient
putaway
4. interleaving
Combining putaway & retrieval process
Unload, putaway, retrieve and load

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