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Week 3 - Warehouse Operations & Equipment Flashcards

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What are the three main functions of warehouse management?

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• Receiving
• Storage & process
• Despatch

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Two main resources for warehouse management

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• Physical resources - equipment and systems
• Human Resources - labour

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Who are the different parties involved in warehouse management? (6)

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• Operations - in charge of the equipment
• Procurement - in charge of the raw materials
• Finance - concerned with the financial impact of warehousing
• Logistics - concerned with getting the product in from suppliers and out to the customer
• Human Resources - concerned with looking after the people
• Sales - looking to drive customer demand up

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Why do we have warehouses? (2)

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• Help to deal with any inefficiencies such as lead time in production, lead time in delivery and reduce risk created by opposing objectives from different supply chain parties
• To meet customer demand

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What are the 3 types of warehouses that are needed?

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• Type 1 - Raw material and component warehouses
• Type 2 - Work-in-progress (WIP) or finished goods warehouses
• Type 3 - Distribution centres, fulfilment warehouses, local warehouses

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What are the 7 different warehouse types?

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• Bonded warehouses
• Distribution centres
• Cross docking warehouses
• Component hub
• Special commodity warehouse
• Bulk storage warehouse
• ‘cash and carry’ warehouse

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What is a bonded warehouse?

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Is where goods are held in-bond without having to pay government duties until the product actually leaves the warehouse e.g. alcohol and tobacco

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What is a distribution centre? (3)

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• Holds minimum items
• Performs a high percentage of value-adding and focuses on maximising profit impact of meeting customers’ delivery requirements
• Example is supermarkets such as Tesco - they take in full loads of stock for a large variety of products

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What is a cross docking warehouse? (3)

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• Products arrive in bulk and is broken down and mixed in the proper quantity of products for customer shipment
• Little to no storage
• Products are not taken into individual shops

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What is a component hub?

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Is where components are stored prior to final assembly

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What is a special commodity warehouse? (2)

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• Handles one kind of a product, usually agriculture
• Examples are: meat or transport of a resources such as nitrogen

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What is a bulk storage warehouse?

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Provide tank storage of liquids or open/sheltered storage of dry products such as coal and sand

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What is a ‘cash and carry’ warehouse?

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Provides storage of bulk products which can be purchased such as Costco

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Evolution of warehouse management

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What are the 4 industrial revolutions?

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• 1st 1784: mechanical production, railroads, and steam power
• 2nd 1870: Mass production, electrical power, and the advent of the assembly line
• 3rd 1969: Automated production, electronics and computers
• 4th Now: Artificial intelligence, big data, robotics, and more to come

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How does a typical warehouse operate? (4)

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• Good come inbound from suppliers and are then put away
• These then become WIPs
• Order picking and packaging then occurs
• And the order then goes outbound to the customer

17
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What are the 3 key concepts of warehouse operations?

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• Stock keeping unit (SKU)
• Barcode and RFID
• Warehouse management system (WMS)

18
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What is a stock keeping unit (SKU)? (4)

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• Records the characteristics of each product stored in a specific place
• They allow for greater accuracy in warehouse’s available inventory
• They allow for greater traceability of product references at different supply chain stages
• They increase as you go down the the supply chain

19
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Real life example of the use of barcodes and RFIDs

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Delivery drivers scanning and asking for a signature when they deliver your product

20
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What are the components of a warehouse management system? (5)

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• Inventory management
• Receiving & put away
• WI-FI & bar code system
• Location management
• Reporting management

21
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What are the three different warehouse operation layouts?

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• A straight flow operation
• “U” flow operation with conveyors
• “L” flow operations with conveyor

22
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What is the benefit of having chute and roller conveyors?

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Saves on having to use machinery to move products from one point to another in a warehouse

23
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What types of warehouse transport equipment are used for for moving stock around the warehouse? (6)

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• Pallet trucks
• Walkie stacker
• Platform truck
• Lift truck
• Reach truck
• Sideloader

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What are the different ways of storage in a warehouse? (5)

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• Block stacking
• Pallet racking
• Mobile racking
• Push back racking
• Drive-in racking

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