Warehouse management is the art of movement and storage of materials throughout the warehouse. Warehouse management monitors the progress of products through the warehouse. It involves the physical warehouse infrastructure, tracking systems, and communication between product stations. Warehouse management deals with receipt, storage and movement of goods usually finished goods and includes functions like warehouse master record, item/ warehouse cross-reference lists and such things as on hand, allocated, transfers in process, transfer in process, transfer lead time, safety stock, fields for accumulating statistics by location.
A warehouse manager needs to perform several crucial functions such as overseeing and recording deliveries and pickups, loading and unloading materials and supplies, maintaining inventory records and tracking system, determining appropriate places for storage, rotating stock as needed and adjusting inventory levels to reflect receipts and disbursements. An individual handling the warehouse management needs to have knowledge about inventory control and warehousing systems, loading and unloading procedures, risky and materials storage and mathematical knowledge.
A warehouse management system is a critical component of an effective overall supply chain management systems solution. Warehouse management system began as a system to control movement and storage of materials within a warehouse. Today it even incorporates tasks such as light manufacturing, transportation management, order management, and entire accounting systems.
Implementation of Warehouse Management System (WMS) will provide you an increase in accuracy, reduction in labor costs if the labor employed to maintain the system is less than the labor saved on the warehouse floor and a greater ability to service the customer by reducing cycle times. WMS may not serve you with inventory reduction and greater storage capacity. An increase in accuracy and efficiency receiving process might lead to reduction in level of safety stock required. But the consequence of this reduction will hardly be visible to the overall inventory levels. WMS might just not affect the factors (lot sizing, lead times and demand variability) controlling the inventory levels. However WMS is instrumental in more efficient and organized that leads to increased storage capacity.
Lately in the field of warehouse management, Infor, the largest global enterprise software provider is developing solutions for the manufacturing and distribution industries. Infor’s management technology is meant for enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Infor technology can be used for single as well as multiple warehouses. It allows manufacturers and distributors to perceive and monitor the location of particular items within the facility. The technology is also extremely beneficial in ascertaining the size and weight of incoming shipments to set up the perfect way to transport and place them in the warehouse. The professional experts at Infor are planning to integrate it into Infor’s Microsoft.Net based ERP system for manufacturers.
By: Mansi Aggarwal
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Warehouse Management Guide
April 13th, 2010Building Seamless Environs Through Environmental Remediation
December 27th, 2009Waste refers to the refuse from places of human or animal habitation, and is solid, liquid, or gaseous by-product derived from various day-to-day activities. This litter poses significant risks to human health and environment. Waste Management deals with all aspects of collection, storage, disposal, and reduction of waste.
Waste Management Services employ low-cost and labor-intensive systems to render social, economic, and environmental benefits. Some of these procedures include but not restricted to:
Landfill Systems – Disposal involves placement of wastes in a dump or landfill. Abandoned piles of household garbage, discarded appliances, demolition debris etc. can threaten human health, wildlife and environment. A landfill daily cover helps prevent disease, fire, odor, blowing litter and scavenging in landfills. It also controls dust, improve general site aesthetics and act as a moisture barrier to limit excess precipitation from entering waste. Sediment Control – Erosion results in off-site sediment movement that can deposit and clog drainage ways, increase potential for flooding, decrease reservoir capacity, and carry nutrients and pesticides that degrade water quality. Sediment Control helps retain eroded soil on site, preventing damage to watercourses and infrastructure. Sludge Treatment – This involves stabilization for a controlled degradation of organic ingredients, odour removal and deadening of pathogens, ameliorating sewage sludge characteristics for further utilization or disposal. Slope Stabilization – Steep slopes, low soil fertility, and other adverse conditions are typical of many forest landslides. Reclamation and bio-technical slope stabilization can be employed to provide a self-sustaining vegetation cover on many forest landslides and unstable slopes. Bioremediation – This involves cleaning unwanted substances from air, soil, water and raw materials using Bioremediation Bacteria and enzymes, which can curb certain problems of global warming, clean up environment, eat concrete and mop up oil spills. Odor Control Products & Systems – Eliminating offensive odors from active landfills, wastewater transportation system and many different odorous compounds produced by sewage, using environment-friendly odour control technologies like Bio-augmentation, chemical neutralizers etc.
Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations. Environmentally acceptable, waste-management practices are essential if damaging consequences are to be avoided such as those due to toxic or hazardous waste, greenhouse-gas emissions, water pollution, air pollution etc. Waste Management Services help conserve both natural and man-made resources and avert ecological risks with their economically viable solutions!
By: Carlisle Knight
