Covered Topics

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Covered Topics

• Roles of the Warehouse in the Supply Chain
• Material Flow Organization and the underlying
  major Warehouse Functions
• Strategic Concerns driving the Warehouse
  Deployment and Operation and the Operational
  Schemes / Mechanisms supporting them
• Warehouse Equipment types, their attributes, and
  associated efficiencies
• The overall warehouse design and control problem
  and its decomposition
• Warehouse Activity Profiling
• Storage Configuration and Policies for Unit
  Load warehouses
• Allocation of storage locations to SKUs (for
  dedicated, randomized and class-based storage)
• Storage sizing for each SKU, based on
• service level considerations
• cost considerations
• Determining an appropriate storage mode rack vs.
  floor storage
• Optimizing the lane depth