Warehouse Management: Types, Functions, Activities, and KPIs

WAREHOUSE MANAGEMENT
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Table of Contents
1. Types of warehouse suitable for Bata Malaysia’s central warehouse....................................3
2. Explanation of the operations functions of the four areas of a warehouse layout:-...............3
3. Types of major warehouse activity carried out by the PAL warehouse in the Port of
TanjungPelepas..........................................................................................................................4
4. Two (2) functions performed by PAL warehouse in the Port of TanjungPelepas.................5
5. Two (2) KPI that illustrate PAL’s superior service...............................................................6
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1. Types of warehouse suitable for Bata Malaysia’s central warehouse
Bata Malaysia wants to increase its distribution in all over West Malaysia, by establishing a
central warehouse in Klang Valley. The integration between the cities through the Klang
Valley is very high. Also, it provides a very developed road network and the rapid transit
system and making the most convenient way for cars and buses. The sales of Bata Malaysia
is low throughout the year, though in some months the volume of the sales increases.
Contract warehouse combines all characteristics of both public and private. Also, this
warehouse provides the benefits of expertise, flexibility and many other things. So the
contract warehouse is the suitable central warehouse for Bata Malaysia to be built in Klang
Valley (Richards and Gwynne 2017)Because of the starting of the December the demand of
the production of Bata Malaysia is very high and also the starting of the school season when
all students have come to the store. But in other months the sale of the products is not quite
well so Bata stores all the products in the central warehouse in the Klang Valley. So they
arrange the products very well in this warehouse and also it cuts the total cost. So the
economic condition of the Bata will not effect. Contract warehouse provides better
transportation services and the return processing services to the Bata (Yener et al. 2019).
Therefore, they distribute many products to the Bata store.
2. Explanation of the operations functions of the four areas of a warehouse
layout:-
Seasonal goods storage: seasonal goods are the goods that fluctuate because of the demand
for the products due to the weather, some events and the holidays in the year. So the seasonal
effect of the goods observes throughout the year (Fielding et al. 2019). Finding out the
seasonal products and the trend in purchasing of the production will be helpful for the
company. Bata Malaysia stores some seasonal products in the central warehouse in Klang ,
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