...Dinara Muratova February 22, 2014 Warehouse Management Systems Warehouse Management Systems involve computer software that company employees can use to manage inventory and warehouse operations. The software interacts with hardware, which includes machinery. This management system can be used by so many. Many employees of the company can use these systems to fulfill business requirements. Employees from Accounting, the warehouse, shipping, sales, and customer service use the system. Also customers of the company can use these systems to check on the status of their orders or even to make orders. Cadre Technologies is a company that offers its warehouse management solution to other companies. Cadre calls it "e-commerce in the cloud". This company's system is built to provide a "web storefront" for warehouse operations. Cadre has a specific plan for their system. It's focus is inventory management and the idea is to provide software and a warehouse operation solution that works with various stations and areas of the warehouse in picking and storage of the various items that are stored in the warehouse to efficiently store and retrieve them for customer companies. The inventory and orders can then be made and managed by customers of the company through an online website that can be branded by the company. Oracle is also another company that provides warehouse management systems. This the same Oracle that manufactures servers and the Java software. Their solution appears...
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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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...Introduction Warehouse management is part of logistic and supply chain management system which is a vast and critical process. With the change of business nature due to globalization the complexity of warehouse management has increased more. As much of the business success of today’s competitive world depends on effective logistic and supply chain management system companies are relying more on integrated computerised system to manage their warehouse function more effective and efficiently. SAP Warehouse Management System is one of those kinds of solution which fulfil all the requirement of today’s business need. The system is flexible and provides automated support to process warehouse activities. It includes planning, monitoring and controlling. As a result there has been remarkable improvement in the warehouse management process with speed and accuracy. Warehouse Management Warehouse management (WM) is an integrated process of managing all activities of a warehouse. Prime consideration of warehouse management is to manage the movement and storage of materials within a warehouse and process related transactions including shipping, receiving, put away and picking of materials or goods (Wikipedia 2011). Warehouse management is no longer limited to the boundaries of a particular warehouse. A wide range of activities have been incorporated to this process. These are inventory management and planning, cost management, container storage, loading and unloading of goods, warehouse design...
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..._________ 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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...A PROJECT ON INVENTORY MANAGEMENT AT WAREHOUSE PROJECT REPORT SUBMITTED BY: ARKYADEEP CHOWDHURY (WORKING AS AN INTERN IN ITC LTD) INTERNSHIP SUPERVISOR: MR.SABYASACHI BAGCHI INDEX |CONTENTS |PAGE | | |NO. | | | | | | | | | | |Introduction – Company’s Profile |3 – 5 | | | | |Natural Movement |6 – 7 | | ...
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...Introduction Sysco is a global leader in selling, marketing and distributing food products to restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, lodging establishments and any other customer who prepares meals away from home. Sysco currently has more than 180 locations throughout the United States, Canada and Ireland with about 400,000 customers making up their portfolio. Sysco offers a wide variety of products which range from ingredients in menu items, as well as, both preparation and serving items. From Sysco’s initial public offering (IPO) in 1970, their sales have grown from $115 million to $37 billion for the fiscal year 2010. Sysco Grand Rapids is one of the numerous Midwest offices that supply to Michigan, Ohio and Indiana. Some of their major customers in Grand Rapids are Bigby Coffee and Jimmy Johns, including many others, which Sysco has national contracts with. Sysco currently holds about 17 percent of the food service market share, which is a $200 billion industry. Some of Sysco’s major competitors that make up the rest of the market share include Gordon Food Service (GFS) and U.S. Foods, which is Sysco’s largest competitor nationwide. Sysco Grand Rapids sees the competition a little differently locally than the company does as a whole, with GFS being their largest competitor. The reason GFS is the largest competitor in Grand Rapids is because they do not serve the entire nation, rather they are more prevalent in the Midwest states. ...
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...available at the right time. Internal control is the process designed to ensure reliable financial reporting, effective and efficient operations, and compliance with applicable laws and regulations. The internal control system provides for safeguarding of assets and proper recording of transactions. This research is done about the inventory internal control system in Burger King outlets located in Portmore. Companies should store inventory in secure spacious warehouses so that inventory is not stolen or damaged. Goods and resources of similar type should be kept in the same general area of the warehouse to minimize confusion and to ensure accurate counts. In an aid to control stock most companies use physical inventory counts which are a way of ensuring that a company's inventory management system is accurate and as a check to make sure goods are not being lost or stolen or cycle counts which is conducted periodically throughout an accounting period as a means to ensure that the information in its inventory management system is correct. A company's investment in inventory is usually a large one, and it may be comprised of a large number of merchandise items that can be readily stolen and resold. If the inventory contains mostly raw materials, then keeping track of it is essential for ensuring that the production processes using it will not run short of materials. In A. Artwell’s blog, an accountant for 10years she listed the key internal controls of inventory as organizing...
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...Review of Warehouse Receipt System and Inventory Credit Initiatives in Eastern & Southern Africa Final report commissioned by UNCTAD under the All ACP Agricultural Commodities Programme (AAACP) *The views expressed in this paper are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations September 2009 CONTENTS CONTENTS ............................................................................................................................................. i ACKNOWLEDGEMENT .....................................................................................................................iii GLOSSARY OF ABBREVIATIONS .................................................................................................. iv GLOSSARY OF ABBREVIATIONS .................................................................................................. iv SUMMARY ............................................................................................................................................ 1 Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 1 Observations on the different approaches ......................................................................... 1 Policy conclusions and recommendations ........................................................................ 3 Specific proposals .....................................................................
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...Proposal for Inventory Management and Point of Sale Systems (Public) Table of Contents Table of Contents Introduction Details of the Plan Example Situation Finding a Solution What are the requirements? Inventory Management One Solution Cost Other Requirements Narrowing Down a Solution Solutions Researched Proposed Solution Other features & thoughts: Pricing Summary Introduction As you read this proposal, please consider the women at Haitian Creations. The goal is to empower them with knowledge and to share the good news with these ladies: “My name is Joseph and I am 23 years old. I have 2 children who are 6 and 3 years old. I was living on the streets. Now, I am able to live in a home. I have worked at Haitian Creations for one year. This program allows me to pay for my children's education. I am very thankful for Heartline giving me the opportunity to learn and work. One day I would like to study and be a nurse.” - Joseph Wideleine “My name is Nehimie and I am 27 years old. It is difficult to find work and I am very excited to be able to learn and make purses. This is my first job and I have worked at Heartline for one year. I enjoy making purses and other products with my hands. One day I would like to be a clothing fashion designer.” - Nehimie Ulysse Can we help more women like this? These are women that are working hard to bring themselves out of the oppressed lifestyle they are all too familiar with from before. When I visit the program I see them studying, writing...
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...Essay Question Marsha Thomason, an auditor with Dorrit CPAs, is performing a review of Mikhail Company’s inventory account. Mikhail did not have a good year and top management is under pressure to boost reported income. According to its records, the inventory balance at year end was $740,000. However, the following information was not considered when determining that amount. 1. Included in the company’s count were goods with a cost of $250,000 that the company is holding on consignment. The goods belong to Bakunin Corporation. 2. The physical count did not include goods purchased by Mikhail with a cost of $40,000 that were shipped FOB destination on December 28 and did not arrive at Mikhail’s warehouse until January 3. 3. Included in the inventory account was $17,000 of office supplies that were stored in the warehouse and were to be used by the company’s supervisors and managers during the coming year. 4. The company received an order on December 29 that was boxed and was sitting on the loading dock awaiting pick-up on December 31. The shipper picked up the goods on January 1 and delivered them on January 6. The shipping terms were FOB shipping point. The goods had a selling price of $40,000 and a cost of $30,000. The goods were not included in the count because they were sitting on the dock. 5. On December 29, Mikhail shipped goods with a selling price of $80,000 and a cost of $60,000 to Omar Sales Corporation FOB shipping point. The goods arrived on January...
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...Task 1 The Warehouse Group Limited which is the largest retail group operating company in New Zealand which selling a wide range of grocery and non-grocery products at a discounted price to customers. It was founded by Stephen Tindall in 1982 and went on publicly in 1995, traded on the New Zealand Stock Exchange. The company currently operates under three different divisions that consist of The Warehouse New Zealand (Red Sheds), The Warehouse Stationary (Red Sheds) and Noel Leeming. Other than the retail locations, it also has two distribution centres to assist the daily operations in Wiri and Rolleston, New Zealand. In 2000, the Warehouse Group Limited exploited the Australian retail market. Due to the low market sale and underperforming, The Warehouse Group announced to sell the business and renamed as Sam’s Warehouse.The Warehouse Group follows its clearly corporate strategy and makes a good progress. To keep its Red Sheds core strong and develop their Blue Sheds as well as their Red Sheds, and leverage the group competencies and scale to lead the New Zealand’s retail group services company in the foreseeable future. (Wikipedia, 2014) Task 2 For the customers who are willing to purchase at Warehouse, their basic and minimum requirements of the performance are that standard quality of products. The Warehouse Limited required is to provide the quality source of purchasing in order to achieve their order qualifier. The corporation will be out of the market if they cannot...
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...Patterson Warehouse Katina Taylor Florida State College of Jacksonville Warehouse Management TRA2098 Prof. Jonny Bowman, Jr. Patterson Warehouse is an industry-leading specialty vendor serving dental, veterinary and rehabilitation supply markets. Determined to meet up the needs of healthcare professionals in the rising markets, Patterson provides a total-package approach to doing business. Patterson has always upheld an easy value to help build our customers’ success: providing the majority new products at reasonable prices, delivered with special service and a 100-percent satisfaction guarantee (Courchene, 2012). Presently, three of additional than 20 amenities in this system – Mount Joy, Pa., Dinuba, Calif., and Jacksonville, Fla. – fulfill orders for all three Patterson business units (Courchene, 2012). Patterson Warehouse time after time achieves 98-percent fill rates to customers and time after time evaluates and implements the most original technologies and techniques to improve service efficiencies and additional get better customer service. In today’s highly competitive global business environment, Patterson meets the needs of customers through leading products and unequaled personal service. But we meet, and frequently go beyond, customer outlook through full-service division offices and 24- to 48-hour delivery to the majority cities in North America (Patterson Companies Inc., 2012) A brief description of our industry: * Dental market as Patterson’s...
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...Warehouse Capacity Explained By Dave Piasecki © Copyright. Content on InventoryOps.com is copyright-protected and is not available for republication. Just about anyone who has responsible for the daily operations of a warehouse has either already experienced this situation (probably many times over) or likely will at some time in the future. You're struggling with a lack of warehouse space and your cries for help are pretty much ignored by those with the power to do something about it. And here's why. They (upper management, the owner(s), alien life forms, the usual "they" suspects) simply don't believe you. They've heard these complaints before and yet somehow you (or someone else in your shoes) managed to still get the job done. In addition, they may have occasionally walked down into the warehouse and observed empty space, maybe some partially empty shelves or completely empty pallet locations. "Plenty of space here, I don't know what the hell [INSERT YOUR NAME] is whining about". So either you are way too needy, or they don't understand warehouse capacity. While I won't completely dismiss the former, I think the latter is the more likely problem here. The problem is they are looking at "theoretical capacity" and you are dealing with "working capacity" (also called "effective capacity", "practical capacity", "rated capacity"). Theoretical Storage Capacity, Utilization, and Working Capacity. Theoretical capacity is easy to explain. It's the actual physical capacity...
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...A warehouse is a commercial building for storage of goods. Warehouses are used by manufacturers, importers, exporters, wholesalers,transport businesses, customs, etc. They are usually large plain buildings in industrial areas of cities and towns and villages. They usually have loading docks to load and unload goods from trucks. Sometimes warehouses are designed for the loading and unloading of goods directly from railways, airports, or seaports. They often have cranes and forklifts for moving goods, which are usually placed on ISOstandard pallets loaded into pallet racks. Stored goods can include any raw materials, packing materials, spare parts, components, or finished goods associated with agriculture, manufacturing and production. ------------------------------------------------- Warehouse function[edit] India House, Manchester. See also: Manchester cotton warehouses Historically warehouses were a dominant part of the urban landscape from the start of the Industrial Revolution through the 19th century and into the twentieth century. The buildings remained when their original usage had changed. There are four identifiable types of warehouses.[clarification needed][1] The cotton industry rose with the development of the warehouse, and all five types were represented inManchester in the United Kingdom. Warehouses of that period in Manchester were often lavishly decorated, but modern warehouses are more functional.[2] Warehouse allow transport optimization along the supply...
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... Invited Review Research on warehouse design and performance evaluation: A comprehensive review Jinxiang Gu a, Marc Goetschalckx b,*, Leon F. McGinnis b a b Nestle USA, 800 North Brand Blvd., Glendale, CA 91203, United States Georgia Institute of Technology, 765 Ferst Dr., Atlanta, GA 30332-0205, United States a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t This paper presents a detailed survey of the research on warehouse design, performance evaluation, practical case studies, and computational support tools. This and an earlier survey on warehouse operation provide a comprehensive review of existing academic research results in the framework of a systematic classification. Each research area within this framework is discussed, including the identification of the limits of previous research and of potential future research directions. Ó 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Article history: Received 5 December 2005 Accepted 21 July 2009 Available online 6 August 2009 Keywords: Facilities design and planning Warehouse design Warehouse performance evaluation model Case studies Computational tools 1. Introduction This survey and a companion paper (Gu et al., 2007) present a comprehensive review of the state-of-art of warehouse research. Whereas the latter focuses on warehouse operation problems related to the four major warehouse functions, i.e., receiving, storage, order picking, and shipping, this paper concentrates on warehouse design, performance evaluation, case...
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