Friday, December 27, 2013

Warehouse Management Overview

Warehouse Management

Is it only a storage facility?
A warehouse is typically viewed as a place to store inventory. However, in many logistical system designs, the role of the warehouse is more properly viewed as a switching facility as contrasted to a storage facility.

Benefits of Warehousing 
Consolidation 
* Shipment consolidation is an economic benefit of warehousing.
* With this arrangement, the consolidating warehouse receives and consolidates materials from a number of manufacturing plants destined to a specific customer on a single transportation shipment.
* The benefits are the realization of the lowest possible transportation rate and reduced congestion at a customer's receiving dock.

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