文档介绍：CHAPTER 10
Warehousing Management
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Learning Objectives
To understand the role of warehouses and distribution centers in a logistics system.
To identify the various types and functions of warehouses.
To distinguish the various alternatives available in warehouse design.
To examine the different types of handling equipment available.
To analyze the issue of employee safety in warehousing.
Overview of Warehousing Management
Warehousing has been defined as “that part of a firm’s logistics system that stores products (raw materials, parts, goods-in-process, finished goods) at and between points of origin and point of consumption.”
Warehousing can be provided by either warehouses or distribution centers.
Warehousing emphasizes storage of products ―― maximize usage of available storage space.
Distribution centers emphasize rapid movement of products through the facility ――maximize throughput (the amount of product entering and leaving a facility in a given time period).
Placing a warehousing facility between warehousing and transportation adds a new layer of costs (those associated with warehousing) into the system.
However, the increased costs of short-haul transportation may be offset by lower transportation costs per unit of weight associated with volume shipments (Figure 10-1).
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Figure 10-1: Adding a Warehousing Facility: Shorter-Haul Transportation
Why is warehousing desirable? One important reason is that warehouse and distribution centers facilitate the regrouping function in a supply chain.
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Regrouping function (Page 297)
Accumulating (increasing quantity)
Allocating (reducing quantity)
Assorting (building up a variety of products)
Sorting (separating products into grades and qualities)
Warehousing is needed because patterns of production and consumption do not coincide, and warehousing serves to match different rates of flow.