Shipping and Receiving week 3/4 Day 1

The process of laying out a warehouse is a lot like putting a _______ together.

• Model airplane

• Puzzle

• Erector set

• Building blocks

Like a puzzle it is difficult to complete until all the pieces have been _______ and ____________.

• Define and assembled

• Denied and assembled

• Define and disassembled

• Drawn and assembled

The warehouse layout should be based on the _________________ for the interrelationship between the individual _________________.

• Storage space / warehouse requirements

• Space requirements / warehouse space

• Storage Processes / warehouse requirements

•   Space requirements / warehouse processes

The first step in laying out the warehouse is to determine the __________________ for all warehouse processes.

 

• Overall space requirements

• Overall storage processes

• Overall warehouse process

• Overall warehouse requirements

Receiving and shipping staging is a function of the number of receiving and shipping _________ and the ________________ for each dock.

• Dock apron / turnaround time

• Dock space / turnaround time

• Dock doors / turntables

•    Dock doors / turnaround time

The common practice is to allocate enough _____________ behind each dock door to accommodate a truckload’s work of material.

• Storage space

• Pallet space

• Staging space

• Dock space

 

__________________ for pallet storage and retrieval, case picking, and broken case picking should be computed as part of the storage mode economic analysis.

• Peak requirements

• Floor space requirements

• Staging requirements

• Door usage requirements

  If the duration of the peak is short-lived and the ratio of the peak to average ratio is high, then ____________________________________ and/or trailer storage, should be considered to accommodate the peak storage requirements.

 

• Temporary space inside the warehouse

• Long term space outside the warehouse

•   Short term space in the mezzanine

• Temporary space outside the warehouse

If the duration of the peak is for an extended period and the ratio of the peak to average ratio is low, then the _________________________________________________.

• Warehouse should be sized at or very near peak requirements

• Warehouse should work overtime to meet peak requirements

• Warehouse should use cargo containers to store cargo meet peak requirements

• Warehouse should decline work in order to meet peak requirements

The sum of the floor space requirements for each process is a subtotal to which the inter-process aisle allowance is added to yield ________________ requirements.

• Gross warehouse square footage

• Total floor space

• Aisles space

• Equipment staging floor space