Storage and material handling
Key words:
Storage, warehouses, types of warehouses, material handling, palletization, pallet cargo
Chapter objectives:
- getting acquainted with the terms: storage and warehouses,
- understanding the meaning of material handling,
- acquiring knowledge about palletization and pallet cargo.
Time required to study the chapter: 8 hours
Interpretation:
Storage:
Storage can be defined as part of an enterprise logistics system that ensures storage of products at the place of their origin and among the place of their origin and the place of their consumption.
Main use of warehouses in the field of supply and distribution of goods:
- Production support.
- Combination (mixing) of products.
- Consolidation.
- Dividing goods into smaller consignments.
Basic storage functions:
1. Products relocation,
2. Products storage,
3. Information transfer.
Warehouses:
Warehouse functions
- Equalizing function,
- Ensuring function,
- Finishing function,
- Speculation function.
- Enhancement functions.
Warehouses types
1. According to their position in the value-creation process
- Entrance warehouses,
- Intermediate warehouses,
- Sales warehouses.
2. According to degree of centralization
- Centralized warehouses,
- Decentralized warehouses.
3. According to potential needs carriers
- General warehouses,
- Standby warehouses,
- Carry-on warehouses.
4. According to location
- Internal warehouse,
- External warehouse.
5. According to warehouses management
- Own warehouse,
- Foreign warehouse.
6. According to construction
- Indoor storage,
- Open warehouse,
- Solid warehouse,
- Portable warehouse.
Material (goods) handling:
The term handling covers activities like professional displacement, loading, depositing and directing material in production and circulation including warehouses. Thus, it is a sum of operations consisting of loading, transportation, unloading and transshipment (reloading) of semi-products and products, storage, packing, sorting as well as waste handling.
Material - is a summary designation for raw materials, finished and unfinished products and goods (cargo) of all kinds as well as waste. It can be general, bulk, loose, liquid, gaseous.
Palletization:
Palletization is a handling method where the material is still put on a pallet (underlay) with which it is transported at the same time.
Palletized cargo can be stacked in several layers above each other, i.e. stacking. Internationally agreed dimensions are used, in particular 800 x 1200 mm (euro pallet) and 1 000 x 1 200 mm (industrial pallet).
Study materials:
Basic literature:
DRAŽAN, F., JEŘÁBEK, K. Manipulace s materiálem. 1. ed., Prague: SNTL - publishing house of technical literature, Czech Republic. 1979. ISBN 04-220-79.
LAMBERT, Douglas M, James R STOCK a Lisa M ELLRAM. Logistika. In: Praxe manažera. ed. 2. Brno: CP Books, Czech Republic. 2005. 589 p. ISBN 80-251-0504-0.
PERNICA, P. Logistika (supply chain management) pro 21. století. 2. ed. Prague: Radix s.r.o., Czech Republic. 2005. 536 p. ISBN 80-86031-59-4.
Recommended study materials:
NOVÁK, R., ZELENÝ, L., PERNICA, P., KOLÁŘ, P. Přepravní, zasílatelské a logistické služby. Prague: Wolters Kluwer, Czech Republic., a. s., 2011, 392 p.
Questions and tasks
1. Main use of warehouses in the field of supply and distribution of goods does not include:
Consolidation
Production support
Distribution of packages
2. Basic storage functions do not include:
Collection and processing of used products, components, by-products, surplus stocks and packaging material, where the main purpose is to ensure their re-use
Information transfer
Products storage
3. Warehouse functions do not include:
Finishing function
Reverse function
Enhancement functions
4. According to the position in the value-creation process, warehouses can be divided into:
General, Standby and Carry-on warehouses
Own and Foreign warehouses
Entrance, Intermediate and Sales warehouses
800 x 1 200 mm
1 000 x 1 200 mm
900 x 1 200 mm
Key to solve the questions:
1. C
2. A
3. B
4. C
5. A