Warehouse
A warehouse is a building logistics for the storage of goods for shipment to a customer (internal or external to the enterprise). It can be owned and managed by the own company or be a sub-contract with a logistics provider.
Summary |
Nature of storable goods
According to the company's business can be found:
- production activities:
- raw materials, WIP, semi-finished goods for the regulation of the production process (the company or its customer: the case of advanced storage suppliers in the automobile, for example)
- Packaging
- but also finished products for the business process ...
- commercial and trading activities:
- products that the company has acquired and which will not suffer any transformation for sale
- spare parts in case of after-sales activity.
Process systems and warehouse management
The main processes of a warehouse are:
- the receipt of order
- placing in storage
- order picking
- shipping
- inventory management (inventory, address ....)
It is increasingly common to entrust the storage of new value added processes such as:
- Co-packing
- kiting
These late to differentiate generic and thus obtain a significant reduction in costs.
Similarly, to reduce storage costs and storage, the warehouse can ensure the realization of cross-docking. In this case we speak of cross-docking platform.
The information system required to manage a warehouse is an EMS (Warehouse Management System) and WMS (Warehouse Management System).
Infrastructure
Furniture storage is adapted to the nature of stored products and their stock rotation. We found most frequently:
- racks for the storage of pallets
- cantilevers
- shelves
- mezzanines
In rarer cases, investment in vending machines, storage or picking can be justified. We then find the storage and retrieval , carousels, ...
Access to the warehouse for loading and unloading of transport ( trucks , trains ...) are the docks.
Material Handling
To facilitate the operations of cargo handling , can be found frequently in the warehouse handling equipment include:
- pallet,
- forklifts,
- stackers,
- order picking,
- pods ...
Other nominations
In computing , it also speaks of data warehouse to describe a system for aggregating data from all processes of a company in order to extract synthetic information to improve management of this company.
See also
Related articles
- Stock
- Cross-docking
- Reception command
- Warehouse Management System
- Cargo handling
- Armory
- Speicherstadt ( Hamburg )
Bibliography
- Salima Naji, The Warehouse baraka:'s collective attic to Zawya: networks and the sacred heritage process in the pre-Saharan Atlas and Morocco, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 2007, 2 vols., 781 p. (Ph.D. Social Anthropology and Ethnology)
- Michel Roux, warehouses and shops: everything you need to know to design a storage unit, Eyrolles, Editions d'Organisation, Paris, 2008 (4th ed.), 427 p. ( ISBN 978-2-212-54032 -1 )
External Links
- "Warehouse" ( Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond D'Alembert , Encyclopedia Dictionary of the sciences, arts and crafts , vol. 12, Pellet, 1777, p. 569)
- Definition of warehouse and logistics processes
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