..._________ This thesis comprises 30 ECTS credits and is a compulsory part in the Master of Science with a Major in Industrial Engineering – Logistics, 120 ECTS credits Nr. 5/2009 _______________________________________________________________________ Warehousing in theory and practice A case study at ÖoB, Clas Ohlson, Stadium, Åhlens Mahesh Kumar Rajuldevi Ranjit Veeramachaneni Sridhar Kare Master Thesis Subject Category: Series and Number: Technology Industrial Engineering: Logistics, 17/2008 University College of Borås School of Engineering SE 501 90 BORÅS Telephone: +46 033 435 4640 Examiner: Supervisor: Date: Keywords: Göran Stjernman Göran Stjernman November, 2008 Warehousing, Warehouse management systems, Retail stores, Inventory, Labour management. ii Acknowledgements The present master’s thesis work represents the essence of our achievements during the two years of study in Industrial Engineering and Logistics programme at University College of Borås, Borås. During this period there have been many people who have inspired us throughout the study period. The thesis work is concluding part of our university degree in MSc. in Industrial Engineering and Logistics. This master’s thesis was written during autumn 2008. This period was very exciting and it was very valuable as it has given us very knowledgeable and practical experience for the theoretical subjects we have been studying. We wish to acknowledge the assistance of Göran Stjernman, our...
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...ERP software from SAP because of its functionality in sales and distribution, materials management and financials, and its knowledge of the distribution business. Summit visited other electrical distributers using SAP, including some of its competitors, to make sure the software would work in its line of business. Summit was able to go live with its new ERP system across 19 locations in January 2007. Nevertheless, Summit still had to customise its SAP software to meet its unique business requirements. Most SAP delivery and material scheduling functions were designed for overnight processing, because many industries have longer lead times for order fulfilment. Waiting for overnight inventory updates would significantly delay Summit’s sales. Summit found it could solve this problem by running smaller, more frequent updates for just the material received during the day, rather than running big inventory updates less often. This provided more timely and accurate snapshots of what was actually available in inventory so that orders could be rapidly processed. Wire and cable are one of Summit’s most popular product categories. Summit buys these products by the reel in lengths up to 5,000 feet and then cuts them into various lengths to sell to customers. This makes it difficult to determine how much of this type of inventory has been sold and when it is time to replenish. To address this issue, Summit used a “batch management” solution in SAP’s ERP materials management software that treats...
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...enhance the growth of the organization, take advantage of every positive opportunity to LEARN, GROW and EXCEL on chosen career. ▪ Education 2014 Postgraduate Diploma in Supply Chain Management & Logistics ▪ Summary of 2010 Professional Postgraduate Diploma in Strategic Management Qualification 2006 Professional Certificate in Marketing 2004 Advance Certificate in Marketing 2001 West African Examination Council ▪ Personal Competencies ▪ Excellent communication skills in oral and spoken word ▪ Good leadership, interpersonal and people skills ▪ Integrity and self regulation ▪ Continues improvement mindset. ▪ Ability to take initiative and work well with others ▪ Intellectual curiosity, open minded and willing to experiment and try new things. ▪ Highly motivated and outgoing team player ▪ Process improvement skill Languages English, Yoruba and Hausa Language. Job Title: Warehouse Officer Responsibilities: ▪ Establish processes for the...
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...Client Our Client is a leading specialty distributor of advanced network technology solutions. The Opportunity Our client is seeking a Fulltime, Experienced Distribution Centre Assistant. The primary purpose of this position is to provide accurate and efficient pick/packing of stock as well as maintaining inventory accuracy. Reporting directly to the Warehouse Manager, some of your duties will include: * Ensuring correct stock is picked on any pick slips given to the staff * Ensuring the correct addresses are clearly identified * Ensuring all orders are packed, invoiced and labelled accurately * Accurately receipting, verifying and storing stock as required * Assisting with the monthly stock takes and cyclic counting of stock * Maintaining a clean and safe working environment adhering to all Workplace Health & Safety requirements * Pro-actively supporting the Receipts/Shipping Coordinator and other team members as required * Undertaking other general tasks as requested by management To be successful in this role you will have 2+ years warehouse experience in a high-paced, high volume warehouse, a current and valid Forklift Licence, an understanding of Workplace Health & Safety legislations and be proficient with MS office Word and Outlook with intermediate Excel skills.You will also need good literacy and numeracy skills, be hard working with a pleasant manner and be a co-operative team player. Are you proactive and motivated with a positive...
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...IIBM Institute of Business Management Examination Paper MM.100 Distribution & Logistics Management Section A: Objective Type & Short Questions (30 marks) • This section consists of Multiple Choice questions & short note questions. • Answer all the questions. • Part one questions carry 1 mark each & Part Two questions carry 5 marks each. Part One: Multiple Choices: 1. It deals with the movement of finished goods from the last point of production to the point of consumption. a. Marketing Channel Management b. Logistics Management c. Boundaries d. Relationships 2. Which conflict is one of the major bottleneck in the development & maintenance of partnering channel relationship a. Channel conflict b. Management conflict c. Logistics conflict d. Distribution conflict 3. The phase of externally integrated business function era (1990s onwards) is recognized as the era of a. Logistics Management b. Human Resource Management c. Financial Management d. Supply Chain Management 4. may be conducted from time-to-time or at least once in a year to know about change in the expectation levels & actual performance a. Customer Service Monitoring cell b. Formal Customer Satisfaction Survey c. Customer Conference d. Customer Feedback System 5. The firm‟s incomplete or inaccurate knowledge of customer‟s service expectations is known as ...
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...SWOT Analysis / Warehouse Plan for Dell. Professor McDuffie M. Williams TRA2098/ 361162 1/26/12 SWOT Analysis Dell Strengths: 1. Dell is one of the biggest technological corporations in the world. 2. One of the best known brands in the world. 3. First PC maker to offer next-day, on-site product service. 4. Direct to customer business model. Uses latest technology 5. Dell has remarkably low operating cost relative to revenue because it cuts out the retailer and supplies directly to the customers. 6. Dell’s Direct Model approach enables the company to offer direct relationships with customers such as corporate and institutional customers 7. Dell’s direct customer allows it to provide top-notch customer service before and after the sale. 8. Each Dell system is built to order to meet each customer’s specifications. Reliability, Service and Support. 9. Dell turns over inventory for an average of every six days, keeping inventory costs low. 10. They offer their customers the ability to track their delivery. 11. Price for Performance – Dell boasts a very efficient procurement, manufacturing and distribution process allowing it to offer customers powerful systems at competitive prices 12. Online capabilities to customize products 13. manufacturing excellence allows diverse products 14. Strong Mergers and Acquisitions-Keeps the merged companies growing in the core competencies 15. Efficient in saving cost 16. Innovative...
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...Backward Scheduling – An effective way of scheduling Warehouse activities Traditionally, scheduling algorithms were used in capital intensive production processes where there was a need to optimize the production because the plant capacity was constrained and there were different lines of products vying for the same manufacturing plant resources. With warehouse operations getting more complex and automated over the years, a similar need is felt to schedule some of the warehouse jobs using these algorithms to optimize the use of resources such as cranes, conveyors, labelers and pickers deployed in the warehouse to maximize the throughput. This paper describes the approach of one of the scheduling a l g o r i t h m s c a l l e d “ B a c k w a r d S c h e d u l i n g”, i t s implementation in scheduling picking operations in Warehouse and the advantages realized by using this approach Backward Scheduling – An effective way of scheduling Warehouse activities About the Author Tarun Chugh He is an IT specialist with Tata Consultancy Services for the last 8 years and has an overall experience of over 10 years. His technological forte has been IBM iSeries (AS/400) based technologies. He has extensive experience in architecting solutions in different domains such as Banking, Retail, Insurance and Manufacturing. He is currently working on a project which involves design and development of processes for automation of warehouse operations of a US based Fortune 500 retail organization...
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...Global Warehousing and Inventory Management Assignment #2 Do your research in the teams of up to 3 people. Analyse and comment on: 1. The advantages and disadvantages of the warehouse location 2. Analyze advantages and disadvantages of the physical layout of the warehouse. Warehouse layout is also important in achieve greater efficiencies. Minimizing travel time between picking locations can greatly improve productivity. However, to achieve this increase in efficiency, companies must develop processes to regularly monitor picking travel times and storage locations. Without the proper layout and design of your distribution center, no matter the square footage, you will be facing capacity issues, decrease in productivity, and storage inadequacies. The layout helps to utilize all the potential storage space. The vertical space as well as individual cubic is fully utilized which result in increase in capacity storage. With a great layout of the warehouse, inventory can be store organized, in order which can increase the accurately of collecting the data. Thus, Minimizing congestion and interference with smooth flow. (Jeffrey,B. Sept9, 2013. Warehouse layout and Design principle) Disadvantages: one of the disadvantages of physical warehouse layout is fixed. The warehouse design is fixed so during peak seasons. When design the warehouse layout, designer can not predict exactly the demand in the future. As the result, the warehouse can not maximize or minimize to adapt...
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...Warehousing in logistics system Name Institution The role of warehousing in logistics system A warehouse is the building for storing goods while warehousing refers to the place or building where goods are stored. Warehousing plays the role of consolidation in the logistics system. Consolidation is the process of reducing the costs of transportation by consolidating the movement (Ross, 2004). Most of the companies supply their client with the same goods through a warehouse. From the warehouse; commodities are sent in a bulk shipment to the consumer. Therefore, rather than transporting the products in small shipment, it is economical having a consolidation warehouse. Safety stocking is another role of warehousing. In meeting different contingencies like stock outs or delays in the transportation, safety stocks should be maintained (Voortman, 2004). Safety stocking ensures that the inbound site of production does not arise, and the needs and requirements of the consumers are fulfilled in time as planned. Docking also enables the issue of full shipment from different suppliers like manufacturer and the process of distributing directly to the consumer without storage in the warehouse (Ross, 2004). After receiving the shipment, the products are located to the respective clients and moved to the vehicle for onward delivery to relevant consumers. Product mixing role enables the company...
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...Chemical warehouse manager INDIA Ahlers is developing in India its logistics services dedicated to the chemical industry. Logistics services include warehousing of packed chemicals (incl hazardous), value added logistics (like re-packing and drum filling operations) and distribution. As 3PL Ahlers is serving the international chemical manufactures. Ahlers is committed to offer these companies top class service adhering to the (international) safety standards for chemical logistics. To support Ahlers’ growth we are looking for a chemical warehouse manager. Job description (job purpose) You will manage the warehouse operations of Ahlers that are subcontracted through 1 or more logistics service providers. Direct investments in warehouse assets may be a next step in Ahlers’ growth strategy. You are the link between the (external) warehouses and Ahlers’ chemical logistics team (sales, customer service,…)/the customer. You guarantee - through partners that you help to select - the service, quality and safety requirements of Ahlers’ customers and implement Ahlers’ international way of working/operating standards. Major responsabilities 1. Be the driver in selection of warehouse partners based upon Ahlers’ standards and customers’ requirements and in a later stage be the driver in the operational set up of an Ahlers (co-)owned warehouse. 2. In case of the latter, you will supervise a team of warehouse employees, including hiring, delegation, training, performance...
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...of markets. The first market involves the core business of distributing books, videos, and music, as well as providing value services to thousands of school, public, and specialty libraries worldwide. The second market is the firm's retail unit supplies storefront and Internet book and music retailers, as well as independent booksellers, with a million book titles and about 385,000 DVD and CD titles. Voice technology also answers the need to increase worker productivity. This technology—in which a computer is able to identify speech as well as give "spoken" instructions—is muscling its way into the warehouse because it frees up workers' hands so their workflow is uninterrupted while they communicate with a computer. This technology improves such operations as parts inspection, putaway and order selection. Typically, it's used with an order management or warehouse management system (WMS). It takes data from these systems, synthesizes it into speech, and then transmits these oral instructions to workers via headsets. The workers, in turn, speak into microphones to verify that tasks have...
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...Technology in Warehouse Management Brandon J Willis The University of Southern Mississippi Technology in Warehouse Management Abstract: The purpose of this research is to identify some technologies in the warehouse and how they are used in the everyday warehouse operations. The first section briefly goes over the history of warehousing. The following section describes a Warehouse Management System and its cost. Then the different technologies that are used in the warehouse are explained followed with the benefits of each and the conclusion. 1 Introduction For centuries there has been a need for warehousing. Most of every product or item that one will acquire will pass through at least one warehouse before it ends up on a store shelf. With the need for warehouses increasing, there comes the need for the technology to run those warehouses to become more efficient. Warehouses have gone from being a small facility to being hundreds of thousands of square feet and can house thousands of different products and items. This is where new advances in Warehouse Management Systems come into play. There are many picking and storage systems and software available in the market today. This has not always been the case when it comes to warehousing. In order for the efficiency of a warehouse to become better the warehouses have to grow around the new technologies that are being offered. Warehouse efficiency has been the main focus for management in today’s global...
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...a new product introduction, or unexpectedly high demand could create product shortages at the central warehouse; a transportation equipment failure or adverse weather conditions could delay product delivery to regional warehouses (e.9., snow could cause the central warehouse and regional warehouses in northern Italy to close, while regional warehouses in southern areas of the country would remain open for business, in some cases stocking out of product). From time to time, both the regional warehouses and the central warehouse would be out of stock of a particular item. When this happened, the impact on smaller retail customers, who generally had little or no stock of their own from which to satisfy their customers' needs, was typically greater than on larger retailers. Built-in appliance products were generally sold directly to architects and developers to be incorporated into new dwellings. No built-in appliance stock was distributed through Merloni's regional warehouse facilities. Customers in this channel, generally more sophisticated and ordering in higher volumes than retail customers, ordered directly from the central warehouse in Fabriano. The built-in market represented 45% of Merloni Elettrodomestici's business. The company aimed to give its built-in customers a high level of service. Merloni Elettrodomestici's appliance sales were subject to wide seasonal fluctuation. Exhibit 6 shows monthly sales levels for the company's product lines. In 1984, Merloni...
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...Warehouse Management Systems (WMS). By Dave Piasecki © Copyright. Content on InventoryOps.com is copyright-protected and is not available for republication. The evolution of warehouse management systems (WMS) is very similar to that of many other software solutions. Initially a system to control movement and storage of materials within a warehouse, the role of WMS is expanding to including light manufacturing, transportation management, order management, and complete accounting systems. To use the grandfather of operations-related software, MRP, as a comparison, material requirements planning (MRP) started as a system for planning raw material requirements in a manufacturing environment. Soon MRP evolved into manufacturing resource planning (MRPII), which took the basic MRP system and added scheduling and capacity planning logic. Eventually MRPII evolved into enterprise resource planning (ERP), incorporating all the MRPII functionality with full financials and customer and vendor management functionality. Now, whether WMS evolving into a warehouse-focused ERP system is a good thing or not is up to debate. What is clear is that the expansion of the overlap in functionality between Warehouse Management Systems, Enterprise Resource Planning, Distribution Requirements Planning, Transportation Management Systems, Supply Chain Planning, Advanced Planning and Scheduling, and Manufacturing Execution Systems will only increase the level of confusion among companies looking for software...
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...Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) The evolution of warehouse management systems (WMS) is very similar to that of many other software solutions. Initially a system to control movement and storage of materials within a warehouse, the role of WMS is expanding to including light manufacturing, transportation management, order management, and complete accounting systems. To use the grandfather of operations-related software, MRP, as a comparison, material requirements planning (MRP) started as a system for planning raw material requirements in a manufacturing environment. Soon MRP evolved into manufacturing resource planning (MRPII), which took the basic MRP system and added scheduling and capacity planning logic. Eventually MRPII evolved into enterprise resource planning (ERP), incorporating all the MRPII functionality with full financials and customer and vendor management functionality. Now, whether WMS evolving into a warehouse-focused ERP system is a good thing or not is up to debate. What is clear is that the expansion of the overlap in functionality between Warehouse Management Systems, Enterprise Resource Planning, Distribution Requirements Planning, Transportation Management Systems, Supply Chain Planning, Advanced Planning and Scheduling, and Manufacturing Execution Systems will only increase the level of confusion among companies looking for software solutions for their operations. Even though WMS continues to gain added functionality, the initial core functionality...
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