1. Warehousing & Material Handling Logistics
Chapter 1

2. Key Terms Control Tracking Protection Staging & Routing Unit/Pallets
Warehouse
Storage
Just-in-time
Backroom-to-shelf
Logical
Postponement
Kitting
Material Handling Logistics
Movement
Purposeful

3. The term Warehouse…
A warehouse is more than a physical entity, it is a place where “warehousing” takes place
List types of warehouses

4. Purpose of Warehousing
Supply & Demand
A Warehouse is NOT simply a location where things are kept.
The warehouse is an active place where materials are received, housed in a logical fashion and are distributed according to the needs that they will serve.

5. Storage
1 of 3 things happens to materials that arrive at the warehouse door.
Generally materials or items are brought in a warehouse and stored.
Little is done to these materials except that they are “checked in” and sent to a prearranged storage location within the confines of the warehouse.

6. Just-In-Time The warehouse serves as a supplier of production efforts.
Materials needed for production are warehoused for only a short period of time when it is possible to schedule their arrival “just-in-time” for use by the production workers.

7. Backroom-to-shelf The backroom is the storage area
The shelf is the area where smaller lots of items are placed for use in an order-picking operation

8. Logical
The key word in warehousing is the root term of the term logistics-”logical”
The process must “make sense” and the processes involved in warehousing must be efficient and safe for all involved.

9. Postponement
The materials may be stored in the warehouse and their movement out of the warehouse may be literally “postponed” as personnel are asked to “add value” to them prior to shipping them to their final destination.

10. kitting
Can often be seen in the preparation of medically related items such as surgical kits.

12. QUIZ 1. What is the best description of a warehouse
Location where things are kept
A supply and demand system
Active place where things are received, housed, and distributed
Logistics process

13. 2. Placing materials into special packaging or breaking them down into smaller quantities or combining one item with others into a single packet is called
a. kitting b. packetting c. formatting d. quantifying

14. 3. The four basic components of materials handling logistics are
Accession, expansion, distribution, and transportation
Movement, storage, control and protection of materials
Manufacture, configuration, bulking, and systematizing of materials
Time, space, depth, and speed of materials

15. 4. Control in a material handling process basically means
Flow of materials
Storage of materials
Movement of materials
Tracking of materials

16. 5. The term warehousing means
The place where materials are handled
A physical entity for the storage of materials
The flow of material in a warehouse plan
A process that adds structure to housing materials

17. 6. A unit load is
Larger quantity of materials that are considered to make shipment easier
Process of shipping larger quantities of materials
Load of only one kind of material
Small quantity of materials that is recombined with other materials