Chapter 5

Managing a warehouse

DECEMBER 12, 2017

 Types of warehouse

• Owned warehouse
• Rented warehouse
• Public warehouse
• Depot
• Central warehouse
• Peripheral warehouse
• Distribution centre
 Types of warehouse

• Automatic warehouse
• Spare parts warehouse
• Cool warehouse
• Cross-docking warehouse
• Quarantine warehouse
• Customs depot
Cost in opening and managing a warehouse

• Investment costs
• Operating costs
• Costs of risk
• Running costs
 Measuring performance of a warehouse

• Surface utilization rate

• Volume utilization rate

• Potential receptivity
• Throughput
 Measuring performance of a warehouse

• Potential receptivity saturation coefficient

• Selectivity index
• Access index
• inventory turnover index
 Measuring performance of a warehouse

• Economic efficiency
-receptivity cost
-handling cost
 Decision making on Warehouse design and
Management

Warehouse Design: The objective is to minimize the

sum of relevant cost subject to the availability of
space, capital and labor.

• Site selection
• Choice of warehouse systems
• Choice of warehouse layouts
 Choice of warehouse systems

• Primary package (distribution units)

• Secondary package (Parcel)
• Tertiary packages (pallets)
Choice of warehouse systems
 Storage systems

• Static, including stacks, racks (conventional,

drive-in, drive-through and cantilevers),
multilevel shelving, lockers and drawer
cabinets.
• dynamic, such as mobile racks, storage
carousels, live pallet racks and push-back
racks.
Storage systems
 Storage systems

SDrive-in and Drive-through RackTotal Warehouse Tutorials with REB Storage Systems.m
Storage systems
 Storage systems

SMobile Rack.mp4
 Storage systems

Live palletPallet Live Racking.mp4

pPush Back Rack Demonstration.mp4

 Material handling systems

• Material-handling systems without mobility constraints

(transpallet trucks, counterbalanced forklift trucks, support
arm forklift trucks, reach trucks, order pickers and stacker
cranes).
• Material-handling systems with mobility constraints, which
are systems where the transport of load units takes place
following pre-established routes (fixed conveyors, floor-bound
continuous conveyors and overhead conveyors).
• AGVS (automated guided vehicle systems).

AAutomated Guided Vehicle Weasel, Production Logisitics, Bachmann Forming AG.mp4

SAFT Automated Fork Truck Systems Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems AS RS.mp4
Material handling systems
Material handling systems
Material handling systems
Material handling systems
Material handling systems
 Material handling systems

Fixed wheel conveyorDeclining Flexible Galvanized Steel Skate Wheel Conveyor.mp4

Material handling systems
Material handling systems
Identification systems
Identification systems
Guidelines for the choice of a
warehouse systems
Choice of a warehouse layout
Choice of a warehouse layout
Choice of a warehouse layout
Choice of a warehouse layout
Choice of a warehouse layout
Choice of a warehouse layout
 Storage zone sizing decision
• Dedicated storage policy
• Random storage policy
• Class-based storage policy
Thank you so much.