Types of warehouses
Priviate warehouse
This type of warehouses are owened or occupied on a long-term lease by the firm using them.Private warehouses provide more control since the enterprises has absolute decision-making authority over all activities in the warehouse.The control facilitates the ability to integrate warehouse operations with the rest of the firm’s internal logistics process.But private warehousing is also characterized by some drawbacks,including high fixed cost of private storage and the necessity of having high and steady demand volumes.The largest users of private warehousing are retail chain stores,they handle large volumes of products on a regular basis. Manufacturing firms also utilize private warehousing.原文请+QQ32491;14 辣.文"论,文'网
Public warehouse
The public warehouse is essentially space that can be leased to solve short-term distribution needs.Using public warehouses offer more flexibility for users since it require no captial investment on the user’s part.Retailers that operate their own private warehouses may occasionally seek additional storage space if their facilities have reached capacity limit,or if they are making a special,large purchase of products.Public warehouses may also provide a number of specialize services that aren’t available from other sources,such as value-added services as repackaging larger shipments into retail-size package,product assembly and product testing.
Contract warehousing
For many years,organizations had two choices with respect to warehousing---public and private.But more recently,contract warehousing (also referred to as third-party warehousing) has emerged as another warehousing alternative,Contract warehousing is a long term,mutually beneficial arrangement which provides unique and specially tailored warehousing and logistics organizations because it allow service for one customer.Contract warehousing is becoming a preferred choice for many organizations because it allow a company to focus on its core competencies(What it does best),with warehousing provided by experts.Contract warehousing also tends to be more cost-effective than private warehousing with almost the same degree of control ,because key specifications can be include in the contract.
Warehousing Planning
Active Sstorage
Regardless of inventory velocity,most goods must be stored for at least a short time.Storage for basic inventory replenishment is referred to as active storage.Active storage must provide sufficient inventory to meet the periodic demands of the service area.The need for active storage is usually related to the capability to achieve transportation or handling econnomies of scale.For active storage , materials handling processes and technologies need to fucus on quick movement and flexibility with relatively minimal consideration for extended and dense storage.
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