Warehouse Storage: Optimizing Supply Chain Efficiency
Warehouse Storage: A Key Component of Supply Chain Management
Storage is a vital function in the heart of Supply Chain Management (SCM), preserving and maintaining products, raw materials, and inputs. A warehouse adds value to products.
A warehouse differs from a simple winery or storage facility. Warehouses involve technical and complex processes, including inventory, recovery, and encryption. Products leaving the warehouse are not the same as when they entered, especially from an accounting perspective.
Storage has various modes of operation, with specialization in certain areas due to the development of trade.
Modalities of Warehouse Storage
- Own Store
- External Storage
- Joint Stock
Self-Control: Advantages and Disadvantages
| Advantages | Disadvantages | |
|---|---|---|
| Total Outputs | Low employment rate | Maintaining high external cost |
| Maintenance | No charge – Cost Controls | Uncertainty in the control, difficulties in communication, risk of delivery to the final image |
Mixed Storage
To successfully choose a Logistic Operator, a strategic alliance is needed.
- Make it part of the business by signing contracts and confidentiality agreements in the medium and/or long term.
Phases of Storage
- Reception: Physical and documentary verification, classification by area, counting and weighing (random).
- Office: Issuing Office Guide, conditioning products, loading of vehicles, preparation of routes, stowage.
- Storage: Entrance Inventory, Fractionation, Classification Packs, Picking (order preparation), Packing.
Infrastructure and Equipping a Warehouse
The most important parts of a warehouse are the floor and ceiling, as they provide the primary support.
Floor
Calculation of resistance capacity and long-term operations is crucial. Floors support static loads of great magnitude and are usually constructed of reinforced concrete covered with a slab.
Roof
Roofs are often built in a (ship) structure, approximately 12 to 15 feet high.
Equipment
Warehouse equipment consists of three components: reception, storage, and shipping.
Facilities at Reception
- Trucks: Transfer of pallets (manual and semiautomatic).
- Scales and balances: Pallet and package weighing.
- Fork Lift Trucks: For transfer of pallets to the storage area.
Storage Equipment
- Pallets
- Forklifts (Yale): The most functional, useful, and adaptable. Propulsion options include gas station, gas, oil (open space), and electrical (for indoors), each designed for a specific environment.
- Rack: Furniture
- Selective Rack: Direct access to all pallets stored.
- Drive-in: Compact shelving uses a minimum of corridors, ideal for low rotation and manages more homogeneity.
- Licking shelf (picking): Built based on regulated angle beams and are not very high. Used for loose and open packages (depending on the item).
- Pallet flow (shelf dynamics): Acts by gravity with a system of rollers. Used for FIFO (first in, first out) operations.
- Push Back: Flow combination of more selective, are glue blocks together much larger, is also pending with movement system.
- Cantilever (or Rack overhang): Used for large packages and/or volume.
- Self-supporting Warehouse: A warehouse built as modules (rack modules together in large quantities), offering flexible space, functional assembly and disassembly, large capacity, and usefulness.
- Closet moviblock: Ideal for moving files, optimal use of working space with minimal corridors, has levers to move.
- Conveyor belts: Mobilization continues to have high performance, are cost (son of rubber). Are used to connect from the reception to his office, when there is high load and continuous flow.