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Operations Management: Sustainability and Supply Chain Management, Twelfth Edition
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Operations Management: Sustainability and Supply Chain Management, Twelfth Edition

by Jay Heizer, Barry Render, Chuck Munson
February 2016
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
480 pages
219h 58m
English
Pearson
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Warehouse Storage

Storage represents a significant step for many items as they travel through their respective supply chains. The U.S. alone has more than 13,000 buildings dedicated to warehouse and storage. Some exceed the size of several connected football fields. In fact, more than 35% have over 100,000 square feet of floor space.

Care should be taken when determining which items to store in various locations in a warehouse. In large warehouses in particular, hundreds or thousands of trips are made each day along very long aisles. Proper placement of items can improve efficiency by shaving significant travel time for workers. In Example S5, we observe a simple way to determine storage locations in a warehouse.

Example S5 Determining Storage ...

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ISBN: 9780134422404