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Impact Of Effective Warehouse Management On Physical Distribution In A Manufacturing Organization
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CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
The functions of warehouse management
is to provide cost effective storage, in a suitable condition for the
organization’s products and materials to enhance effective rendering of
customer services. The existence of a warehouse is justified by the
extend to which it contributes to the efficiency and effectiveness of
physical distribution functions.
The geographical location of a
warehousing operation should be determined by production sites and the
physical position of target markets. However, in some developing
countries as Nigeria, political conditions have some times over ride
economic arguments and facilities such as warehouse, go downs, assembly
areas and buying points for the government organization have been
sub-optimally sited. Warehouse managers have a number of important
challenges which include, determination of most appropriate unit loads
optimizing space utilization, reducing the movement of labour, equipment
and product/materials to minimum, establishing a safe, secure
warehousing environment and keeping cost to minimum.
1.1 GENERAL OVERVIEW
An
earlier resource pack described the decisions that must be taken when a
company organizes a channel or network of intermediaries who take
responsibility for the management of goods as they move from the
producer to the consumer. According to Piasacki (1978), initially a
system to control movement and storage of warehouse management system
(WMS) is expanding to including light manufacturing, transportation
management, order management and complete accounting system. To use the
grand father of operation, material requirement planning, (MRP) as a
comparison, material requirement. Planning started as a manufacturing
environment. What is clear is that the expansion of the over lap in
functionality between warehouse management system and other functional
area in physical distribution of goods from the producer to the
consumer. Even through warehouse management contributes to gain added
functionality, the initial core functionality of a ware house management
system has not changed. The primary purpose of a warehouse management
system is to control the movement and storage of material within an
operation and process the associated transactions. The detailed set up
and processing within a warehouse management system in my area of case
study Unilever Nigeria Plc Aba, varies significantly from one material
render to another, however the basic logic will use a combination of
item, location quantity, unit of measure and order information to
determine where to stock, where to pick and in what sequence to perform
these operations.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This research work on the impact of effective warehouse organization, with a case study of Unilever Nigeria Plc Aba is geared towards ensuring adequate warehouse management system in order to increase customer satisfaction, warehouse management as part of the activities of physical distribution focused more on the storage maintenance and distribution of finished goods to the appropriate areas they are needed.In a manufacturing company where raw materials, stock of finished goods and accessories ... Continue reading---
