What are the main reasons to have a warehouse?
What are the disadvantages of a warehouse?
What is a SKU?
Stock keeping unit, the type identification of a product for purposes of distribution.
Note one product may be packaged as several different SKUs (for example, single bottles, and 6 bottles in one pack)
What is a mixed unit load?
A unit load that (typically upon receiving) contains several different SKUs.
What are typical warehouse targets?
What types of warehouses are there?
Each type of warehouse has a different goal, what are they?
What happens at receiving?
Receipt of incoming materials
Quality and quantity checks
Dispatch to other areas in the warehouse
What happens at inspection?
What happens at repacking
What is meant with putaway
What storage systems are there?
What is order picking?
What happens at accumulation? And sorting?
Accumulation
Products coming from different areas or from different pickers need to be combined.
Sortation
Products for different customers collected by the same picker or products that have been transported with the same transporting system need to be separated.
What happens at packing and shipping?
What happens with cross docking? And replenishment?
How do you select your system?
What are the two most common structures for warehouse design?
How does an i-layout look like? Which departments are there?
What are the advantages of an I- and an U-structure?
Why is it important to take surroundings into account when designing a layout?
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