Lecture 5 Warehousing Flashcards
Storage Types
- Bulk Materials, sorted by weight and volume
- Discrete or Component Matarials: sorted by number of units
- Stock Keeping Units: the number of different types of product kept in stock
Pareto Curve
20% of the products acount for 80% of the turn around time
When does Pareto not work
- When demand is random (spare parts)
- When goods must handled FIFO (fresh foods)
- High peak in seasonal demand (holiday packages)
- In an I form warehouse
Warehouse transport equipement
Fork lift Reach truk Pallet truck Electrick pallet truck Gantry Automated Guidance Vehicle
Special distribution centre froms
Consolidation Warehousing
Postponent warehousing
Bonded warehouse
Group Cellular Layout
Resources to produce similar product placed together
Computer Aided Design CAD
Use computer systems to asists in creation modification analysis optimization
Computer Aided Manufacturing CAM
Using computers to assist manufacturing
CAD + CAM=
computer integrated manufacturing CIM
Future supply chain developments
Robotics Artificial Intelligence Augmented Reality Cleaner systems 3D printing Bock chains
Inventory Types (10)
Traditional Purpose Cycle stock Safety stock Effect Basically Anticipation inventory Hedge inventory Transportation Inventory Smoothing Inventory
Inventory Drivers
Business conditions
supply uncertainity
demand uncertainty
mismatch
Independent demand
items whose demand levels are beyond a company’s control
Dependent demand
demand levels are tied directly to the company’s planned production of another item
Stock turnover
the number of times a business sells and replaces its stock of goods during a given period
