Ware house for raw material storage

Ware house for raw material storage

            The following is a detailed plan and set of drawing clearly indicating a successful ware house .Our group will focus on making a 5000 square foot and utilize some packing systems .This is the report based on the warehouse we designed. The first thing to consider is the products that are moving around the ware house .We have explained all the functional areas of our ware house .

Devising a warehouse’s layout is the first step in designing an installation.

Figure 1 waehouse fr raw material storage

The general layout of a the warehouse

• Making the most of the available space

The warehouse has been suited in a 5000square feet.space is very important to ensure that the construction will be fit and having better environment fro the movement of good in and out of the ware house.We have selected to choose a ware house that will be used for storing raw materials.it needs enough space for vehicle turning and movements.

• Reducing the handling of goods to a minimum

To ensure that we have focused on ensuring that we have limited cases of handling material within the wharehouse.it will only be for dispatch and distributing the raw material to different companies.

• Providing easy access to the stored product

The warehouse has been developed to ensure that there is easy access of the stored products to ensure that they can be easily accessed and used when even a company wants to access raw material or more products are added to the store.

• Having the highest rotation ratio possible

We have designed   the warehouse in a manner that it can easily allow for rotation ratio .Meaning that there is enough spaces where products can be stores for easy pic and collection.

• Offering maximum flexibility in the positioning of products

The warehouse is made in a manner that it allows for flexibility of positioning of the products and picking them. It is important to make sure that the raw materials are easily placed in better positions for easily location.

• Controlling the amounts stored

Is very important as it helps us to know the amount the quantity of products that can be sored in the warehouse. This could make the ware house easily monitored and volumes controlled.

To achieve these objectives, the first step is to create a warehouse layout, where the design of the warehouse is represented in the form of a step by step plan.

First and foremost, the created layout must respect the basic rules of good storage mentioned above and avoid areas and points of congestion, facilitate maintenance tasks and establish the resources required to obtain the greatest possible workflows, with the associated reduction in runtimes.

Warehouse Layout Design

To design a warehouse, you are required first to develop a warehouse layout. Designing a warehouse layout may seem simple, but it is a difficult act to figure it out. Warehouse designing needs the utilization of space by the designer, where different factors limit the usage of the space available (Interlake, 2017). When designing the internal and external layout of a warehouse, certain factors should be considered, which affect the assigned space, the extension of existing amenities, how the new warehouse will be installed, and the reorganizing of the current operating system.

Irrespective of the circumstances faced during the warehouse layout, the layout should cover the following needs:

• Maximum usage of the space available
• The minimum cost incurred during handling of the goods
• Accessibility to the store
• The high rotational ratio should be observed
• The layout should provide flexibility in the positioning of the products
• The layout should control the number of goods to be stored.

To achieve the above needs, the design of the warehouse should be presented to inform of a plan (Interlake, 2017). After creating the layout, it should contain good storage as mentioned above with minimal congestion, the layout should allow maintenance activities, and establishment of the resources required to establish a great flow of work, the layout should also ensure reduced runtime errors.

For perfect layout design, the following must be perfectly designed:

• the reception area
• loading and unloading places
• the store coverage
• picking area
• and the dispatch area

Loading and Unloading Areas

The loading and unloading zones are always positioned outside the warehouse or merged inside the warehouse. In our drawing the loading and unloading areas are the areas that the trucks and vans transport and distribute goods access directly (Interlake, 2017). To have a well-organized warehouse, you should separate the loading and unloading zones with the rest of the installation to allow enough space for the loading and unloading activities. The loading zone can be independent or integrated into the warehouse.

Both loading and Unloading Areas Incorporated In the Warehouse

If the loading and unloading zones are incorporated inside the warehouse, so as goods to be collected and offloaded without the help of a carrier, it is termed as integration in the facility. The advantage of integrating the warehouse with the loading zone is the increased speed in handling of the goods, which is more preferred to the non-integrated loading zones if space is sufficient.

Trucks and loading vans are connected into the warehouse through the docks, which can either be:

• Intermediate platform separating the docks: they are necessary when the separation is prudent as determined by the nature of the merchandise or the necessity to maintain the environment of the internal warehouse or when safety concerns arise relating to the type of goods stored.
• Flush docks: they allow the trucks and the loading vans to the right up to the warehouse wall. To avoid interfering with activities going on inside the warehouse, the access doors must have a hermetically sealed system. The seal can be metallic or made of dock shelter.

Points, which have a metal seal, contain a manual or automatic system that operates the flat barrier that is fixable, can be folded, or rolled. The access point opens up automatically when the truck o the van backs up to the warehouse and closes down when the vehicle has completed the task required. When the access point is automatically operated, then the internal environment of the warehouse is preserved.

To the metal seal, doors containing inflatable shelters contain a tunnel that encircles the truck after it has connected to the entrance to minimize the interference with the internal environment.

Creating the loading zone, it is advisable to make the floor of the warehouse high above the driveway of the trucks and loading vans. Loading and unloading zones are designed according to how the trucks are driven into the pit.

Circumstances need to be put into consideration when you want to determine how to achieve the height difference (Zakirah, et al, 2018). The first is when the vans and trucks accessing the loading zones belong to the company operating the warehouse. The second is when the trucks used to belong to a third party.

The trucks that will be used belong to the company operating the warehouse, then the height of the trailer is the same in all cases, with no further considerations required. However, if the trucks belong to another company, then different trailer heights need to be considered due to different trailer heights (Rupasighe, 2018). So the warehouse has to be created with different heights or should be adjustable due to the difference in trailer heights.

A leveler system that can be adjusted is important even when the company uses its trucks or transport system, which means there is no variation and height difference between the dock and the vehicles.

One of the reasons for having an adjustable dock is due to the suspension in the trucks, which, due to different loads, can lead to a varying height of the truck. The difference in the trailer heights cannot be avoided. To deal with the height differences (Zakirah, et al, 2018), a person can use hydraulic or mechanical machines. Mechanical machines are based on the walkway, which is fitted through a manual way between the truck and the dock. Such elements are used so that forklift and other devices used to load and offload the truck can enter and exit the vehicle with ease.

Independent Loading and Offloading Zones

When offloading areas located outside but within the warehouse operate completely different and independent of the warehouse (Rupasighe, 2018). The loading zones usually consist of a large flat room, where the truck access with ease and directly, allowing the forklift to offload and load goods from the trucks.

Loading zones lead to speedy handling of goods since the trucks do not need to back up to the building. So the time spent in positioning the truck is reduced. Additionally, the total loading and unloading processes are quite independent of the work cycle of the warehouse (Janette, 2019).

The independent loading zones, goods can be handled from the side of the truck, or they can be handled from the rear of the truck. When using the sideway offloading or loading, a forklift is necessary and efficient.

The operations are carried out using the rear side of the truck, and then two options are available. The first option being; accessing through the usage of forklift and ramps, which are connected to the truck, and made of metal (Interlake, 2017). There are two types of ramps used, which are the modular ramps and those connected to the loading docks.

Connected to the offloading docks are made of concrete structures or bricks, which are variable in height. If variable, then their construction is similar to that of offloading and loading docks.

The option used in loading and offloading is through the use of conveyor belts. When using the conveyors, the forklifts are not needed to enter the trailer or carry out any operations regarding the offloading and loading of the truck (Zakirah, et al, 2018). The belts are raised to allow easy movement of goods through the belt to the truck.

Reception Area

The reception area should have an independent location from the rest of the warehouse, to ensure good verification of the goods received, and make sure they are of high quality.

Ensuring the quality of the goods delivered matches the quality of the goods ordered, the next phase is locating a strategic position of locating the goods in the warehouse. It may not be necessary to transmute the goods received depending on the type of warehouse (Rupasighe, 2018). If there is a necessity, a strategic area must be established to carry out those functions.

The reception area must be large enough, considering the impact of accurate checking and great positioning can have on the future of the warehouse. Currently, most of the goods that come to warehouses contain barcodes that are easily scanned (Janette, 2019). When the computer identifies the type of goods, it automatically allocates the correct position of the goods. The labels of the goods are also readable and can be read effectively by the forklift operator to allow the efficient location of the items.

Storage Area

The storage area is specifically used for the storage of the goods. Goods can be stored in several different ways. Goods can be stored directly on the ground, they can also be stored on racking units, and they can be stored on the ground but stacked or placed on a block (Interlake, 2017). The choice of storage will depend on the type of goods being stored.

Types of loads exist, that use stacking as a method of storage: the goods which contain internal strength such as ceramics, are stored directly even without the need of pallets. Goods such as feeds are stored in sacks, and they require pallets for support systems.

Units are always used when the unit loads luck enough strength to be stacked to the required heights. Goods stored on racking units are placed on metal structures, which are typically made of beams and braced frames (Janette, 2019). The beams and braced frames create a multicellular space that creates units slots for the placement of the goods.

Order Picking Areas

Picking areas are not necessarily required in the warehouse, only when the outgoing goods need a configuration that is different from the one that they entered with, or if any modification is required (Interlake, 2017). Areas, where orders are prepared, can also be used as storage places. They can also be separated from the storage places.

Dispatch Area

The dispatch area is used for the packaging of orders. Dispatch area is necessary since it can be used for goods that are being prepared to be delivered or packed in distribution trucks. The dispatch area must be situated in specific places to increase the speed of movement within the warehouse. If separate dispatch and reception areas have been made, then a separate loading and offloading area are needed (Interlake, 2017). When the dispatch and reception are areas close to one another, a small loading and offloading area can be created. Still, it causes difficulty in the movement of goods within the warehouse to and from the trucks.

Service Area

The service area is designed for support staff, such as the management offices, bathrooms, and changing rooms (Interlake, 2017). The service area should be isolated from the dispatch and reception or built-in between the two workplaces to provide great operations in the department.

And changing rooms can be located at any place in the warehouse, but it is necessary to locate it close to the management offices (Interlake, 2017). The space that is preserved for the recharging of batteries and other handling devices should be located in the furthest corner of the warehouse due to health factors, and should be completely sealed to avoid incident involving the operations in this area.