Warehousing

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Warehousing

• Marketing Logistics
• Advance manually to begin.

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Warehousing
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• The storing of products, including raw materials,
  parts, goods-in-process, finished goods at and
  between point-of-origin and point-of-consumption.
• Provides information on status of goods.

Distribution centers are a type of warehouse
which hold minimum inventory of high-demand goods.
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Warehousing Storage of inventories all through
logistics process.

• Raw materials, components, parts.
• Finished goods.

• The storing of products, including raw materials,
  parts, goods-in-process, finished goods at and
  between point-of-origin and point-of-consumption.
• Provides information on status of goods.

Physical supply
Distribution
Warehouse
Warehouse
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Inventory
in a Warehousing Context

• Achieves transportation economies.

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Transportation Economies
Economies of scale
Transportation carriers usually give
discounts for bigger loads.
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Warehouse
Supplier
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Transportation Economies
Economies of scale
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Warehouse
Supplier
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Inventory in a Warehousing Context

• Achieves transportation economies.
• Achieves production economies.

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Achieves Production Economies
Economies of scale
Warehouse
Assembly line
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Inventory in a Warehousing Context

• Achieves transportation economies.
• Achieves production economies.
• Quantity purchased discounts, forward buy
  discounts.
• Maintain source of supply.
• Support customer service policies.

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Inventory in a Warehousing Context
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• To meet changing market conditions.
• Seasonality.
• Demand fluctuations.
• Competition.
• To overcome time and space differentials between
  producers and consumers.
• To minimize logistics costs while meeting
  customer service goals.
• To support just-in-time inventory programs.

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