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Effect Of Store Design On Materials Handling
[A CASE STUDY OF POWER HOLDING COMPANY OF NIGERIA (PHCN) KADUNA]
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1.7 Definition of Terms
Store:
is a place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept. It is set
up in order to receive, inspect, hold and issue all assets of an
organization while helping to maintain its original quality and balance
flow of materials as well as achieving the very important roles of store
function.
Design: the way that something has been planned or made
to draw or plan something that will be made, done or built in other to
permit a smooth handling and storage of materials at the lowest possible
cost.
Store design: could be described as the planning and layout
of store house structure to permit smooth handling and storage of store
at the lowest possible.
Material handling: as that operational
activity involving manuals or automated movement of materials and other
goods from one location to another within an organization or time in
good condition and efficiently.
Shelves: a board for laying thing on
or this is pieces of woods or iron that are placed on the wall where
goods and other office materials are kept. In some places they are
designed in cubes.
Pallets: a sample device that place mechanically
operated forks under a load so that it can be raised up from grounds and
are usually made of woods.
Gangways: this is a long and normally a
narrow way in store house and environment for operating of handling
equipment to facilitated movement of materials in and out of the store.
Stockyard:
this is an open storage space with an organization in other words. It
is a type of store not housed but segregated purposely for storage not
of non perishable.
Receipt: is the process of accepting from all
resource all materials and parts which are used in the organization
including supplier for manufacturing, plant maintenance officer, capital
installation and finished products.
Effect: change produced by an action or the result produced from the collusion of two or more variables.
Organization:
are artificially continued structure with procedures and objectives
defining responsibilities and highlighting who does what they of job
task.
Dispatch: refer o terms being selected from stock and when
marshaled documented loaded and subsequently delivered to their given
destination.
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