Chapter5_-_Warehouse_Layout.pptVIP

Prepared by Angela Sun for HKU SPACE Suzhou * Chapter 5 Warehouse Layout Reference: Edward H. Frazelle, World-Class Warehousing and Material Handling, published by Mc Graw Hill, 2002 Warehouse and Inventory Management Prepared by Angela Sun for HKU SPACE Suzhou * Warehouse Layout Introduction The process of laying out a warehouse is a lot like putting a puzzle together. Like a puzzle it is difficult to complete until all the pieces have been defined and assembled. Designing the pieces is the work of profiling, benchmarking, simplifying, computerizing and mechanizing warehouse operations. These five steps define the individual processes and types of materials handling and storage systems working inside the warehouse. Prepared by Angela Sun for HKU SPACE Suzhou * Warehouse Layout Five-step methodology for warehouse layout: 仓库布局5步法： Space Requirement Planning 空间要求规划 Material Flow Planning 物料流程规划 Adjacency Planning邻近规划 Process Location作业流程定位 Expansion/Contraction Planning扩张与收缩规划 Prepared by Angela Sun for HKU SPACE Suzhou * Warehouse Layout Space Requirement Planning空间要求规划 Determine the overall space requirements for all warehouse processes. The space requirements for each process should be computed and summarized to estimate the overall building requirements. The table is an example of such a computation. Prepared by Angela Sun for HKU SPACE Suzhou * Warehouse Layout Space Requirement Planning – Cont’d 空间要求规划 Receiving and shipping staging space is a function of the number of receiving and shipping doors and turnaround time for each dock. In common practice enough space is placed at each doorway to allow for a full truck load of goods to be unloaded. Floor space requirements for pallet storage and retrieval, case picking, and broken case picking should be computed as part of the storage mode economic analysis. The most difficult part is to calculate the maximum storage required in peak time for each product. If the duration of the peak period is extended an