Warehouse Management and Optimization Techniques

The assignment discusses the importance of packaging in reducing item damage, using material handling systems such as conveyor and carousels to improve efficiency, implementing occupation health and safety measures to ensure a safe working environment, and utilizing warehouse management information systems to streamline operations. Additionally, it touches on future developments like electronic data interchange, radio frequency identification, and purchase orders.

 Packaging and labelling in the warehouse.
 The main reason for packaging in the warehouse is to reduce the damage of the items.
 The packaging which was developed included;
 aluminium containers
 paperboards
 Corrugated cardboards
 All the above packages were selected because of their lightweight and ability to offer enough
protection to the items

 Material handling systems used in the warehouse.
The systems used include:
 Conveyor systems.
Used to move goods from one position to another.
 Industrial carousels systems.
They are used to pick and pack. There are of 3 types.
 Automated vertical carousels
Vertical lift carousels
Horizontal carousel

 Occupation Health and Safety measures
Some of the measures which were put in place include:
 Ensuring proper Assembly and maintenance of the warehouse.
 Choosing an experienced provider to assist carrying out installations.
 Coming up with a well-designed inventory
 Ensuring Forklifting safety by employing licenced and experienced operators.
 Installing safety equipment

 Warehouse and stock security measures
 Some of the security measures in place include:
 Limiting the number of doors into the warehouse.
 Separating the loading/offloading bay from the staff parking.
 Installing security features such as surveillance cameras.
 Carrying out research before employing workers.
 Clearing The bushes and other foliage which can act as the hideout of thieves

 warehouse management information
systems
A wide range of technology has been included in the warehouse management systems.
The management system which is used in the warehouse has the ability to;
Reduce the inspection errors.
Simple control
Identifying and reducing cost.

 Future developments of the warehouse.
Some of the future developments are:
 Electronic Data Interchange. Which allows transfer of documents between different computer, and
can be used for;
• Purchase orders
• Carry out warehouse stock transfer receipts
 Radio frequency identification.
use of Radio waves to feed information between the tags which are attached to the stock

 Bibliography
• Hamberg, R., 2016. Automation in Warehouse Development. 2nd ed. London:
Springer Science & Business Media.
• Prasad, D. K., 2013. Data Warehouse Development Tools. 3rd ed. Texas:
Dreamtech Press.