Choose From A Variety Of Supply Chain Solutions

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Choose From A Variety Of Supply Chain Solutions
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Synopsis

1. Forms Of Warehouse Storage
2. Methods Involved In Pallet Storage
3. Main Terms And Conditions Of Warehouse Storage
4. Expedited International Shipping
5. More About Expedited International Shipping
6. Reasons To Ship Your LTL Shipment Via FTL Freight
7. A Comparison between FTL Freight Transportation
   And LTL Freight Transportation
8. Advantages and Disadvantages Of FTL Freight
   Transportation

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Forms Of Warehouse Storage

• Pallet Racking
• Warehouse storage is made up of a storage system
  known as pallet racking. In this type of storage
  system, we find that a pallet is a form of a
  component that is very useful and common in the
  logistical type of stock storage and also in the
  logistical movement. The pallet is made up out of
  plastics, metals or from wood. What to pay
  attention to in this type of storage is the
  movement process or the process of accessing of
  the stock, the weight associated with the given
  stock, the stability of that stock and the space
  that this stock is likely to occupy. As a result,
  the limits of weight are required to be observed
  and the respectful pallet is required maintained
  at a regular basis and inspected in the same rate
  for the purpose of ensuring that it is stable.
• Multi-Tier Racking
• Warehouse storage is made up of another form
  known as multi-tier racking. This is a warehouse
  storage system that is vital when a customer has
  a stock that needs to be stored in a vertical
  manner. This storage system is accompanied by a
  number of tiers that are varying from one another
  such as floors as one way of accessing the stock
  in a manual way up to the given limit.

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Forms Of Warehouse Storage

• Mezzanine Flooring
• Warehouse storage that involves the construction
  of the second floor on the existing aisles is
  referred to as mezzanine flooring. This type of
  storage is essential as it offers more shelving
  space, areas of working by the staff where
  picking, checking and moving of stock can take
  place.
• Mobile Shelving
• Warehouse storage that is mainly used for the
  storage of data and in the archiving of data is
  identified as mobile shelving. This type of
  storage system is normally accompanied by the
  shelves for storage that comes system for
  tracking.
• Shelving
• Warehouse storage whereby a stock is placed on
  the top of shelves that are static is identified
  as shelving. This type of storage system is
  normally accessed through the forklift. It is a
  storage system that makes the process of
  accessing the stock to be easy. As a result, this
  type of storage is considered to be the best for
  items that are small and light.

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Methods Involved In Pallet Storage

• Push Back Rack
• Warehouse storage method whereby a given stock is
  taken to the storage area by use of a carrier
  that is rail-guided is known as pushback rack. In
  this method, there is pushing back to the area of
  storage of the other stocks when the given stock
  is placed in the store. Here, it means that upon
  the removal of a given stock from the store,
  another stock occupies that space.
• Pallet Flow Rack
• Warehouse storage method that is mainly conducted
  by the warehouses that are accompanied by high
  throughput is known as pallet flow rack. It is a
  type of method that allows the pallets contained
  on a conveyor to be offloaded in a FIFO style.
  This allows another pallet to occupy the position
  that is left empty.
• Drive-In Rack
• Warehouse storage method that gives rise to
  around 10 spaces of pallet load that are alike to
  the double-deep type of racking is known as the
  drive-in rack. The lanes for the drive-in makes
  it possible for the removing and placing of the
  load by the forklift. But this forklift has a
  space that is limited in maneuvering and as a
  result, the time for placing and removing the
  pallets is increased.

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Methods Involved In Pallet Storage

• The Double-Deep Type Of Pallet Rack
• Warehouse storage whereby 2 racks that are single
  and placed together are incorporated is known as
  the double-deep type of pallet rack. This form of
  the method is vital as it minimizes the aisles
  number required.
• The Single-Deep Type Of Pallet Rack
• Warehouse storage whereby each pallet available
  in the store is easily accessed is known as the
  single-deep type of pallet rack. This method
  involves the type of issues known as honeycombing
  that entails frames stacking and stacking of the
  block. In this method, when one pallet is
  removed, there is a vacant that is left for the
  accommodation of another pallet.
• Stacking Frames
• Warehouse storage in which the pallets are
  located on several high positions is known as the
  stacking frames. This method is vital in the
  cases where there the stored pallets are not
  recognized to be stackable.
• Block stacking
• Warehouse storage in which the given pallets are
  stacked up to a given height is known as the
  block stacking. This method entails the unit
  stocks that are stacked on the top of other
  stocks and then stored in the lanes or the blocks
  available on the floor of the warehouse.

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Main Terms And Conditions Of Warehouse Storage

• Warehouse storage gives their customers all the
  power of owning their goods. The customer is
  recognized as the one that is owning the goods
  stored in the warehouse as per the law. The
  customer has all the rights of storing goods in
  this warehouse, rights of releasing the goods and
  even the right of commanding the company to
  deliver or dispose his/her goods from the
  warehouse. The customer has a right of fining the
  company in case the goods stored in the warehouse
  get interfered with.
• Warehouse storage keeps the goods of the customer
  as per its discretion in the warehouse that it
  decides. However, this location must be
  identified by the warehouse receipt on the front
  side. But it is not guaranteed that goods can be
  stored at any warehouse complex of the company as
  long as it is listed on the warehouse receipt.
  The company can change the location of the
  customers goods after informing him/her in a
  period of ten days earlier.

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Main Terms And Conditions Of Warehouse Storage

• Warehouse storage has the full rights of
  terminating the storage of the customers goods.
  This is done by giving a notice to the owner of
  the goods in a period of 30 days before removing
  the goods from the warehouse. The customers are
  required to make payments for the given period
  that the goods have been stored in the respective
  warehouse and then remove them upon the
  completion of payment. However, if the customer
  fails to adhere to the terms and conditions, the
  company has all the full rights to remove the
  goods from the warehouse but it has no a right of
  selling them.
• Warehouse storage only takes place for the goods
  that are not hazardous. If it chances that the
  goods are hazardous, the customer is required to
  write a notice to the company before delivering
  the goods for storage. If it chances that the
  goods are hazardous, the customer is required to
  give detailed instructions concerning the nature
  of the storage of these type of goods. Failure to
  do so, the customer will incur the cost for the
  damages, the losses, the fines, the penalties and
  the associated expenses that the company is
  likely to face as a result of the events related
  to his/her goods.

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Expedited International Shipping

• Expedited international shipping is sometimes
  confused with terms like premium, express or
  priority. Unless specified by the merchant,
  expedited shipping could result in any
  combination of modes of travel and service
  providers. Not all mail service companies provide
  expedited international shipping, and some
  locations simply cannot get a quicker
  international package delivery at all. Carriers
  often outsource portions of the chain of
  transport for packages, because some companies
  specialize in major routes or more specialized
  methods of travel like air.
• Expedited international shipping is generally
  fastest by air, however this is greatly dependent
  on where the sender and recipient are located.
  More importantly, the speed will be determined by
  understanding the distinction between expedited
  and a specific type of service defined by a
  company. These can be found in detail on their
  website or from their customer service
  representatives over the phone or at one of their
  physical storefronts.

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More About Expedited International Shipping

• Expedited international shipping has no specific
  methods of its own. Any combination of package
  transportation can be incorporated in an
  expedited package, as it is determined by the
  specific carrier. Shipping is done by land, air
  and sea.
• Ground - this method of shipping includes trains,
  trucks. This is often an inevitable step in the
  delivery process in cases where bulk shipments
  are made by water.
• Ship - Actual ships carry the vast majority of
  international trade goods. This also includes use
  of barges to traverse canals that trail inland.
• Air - Designated cargo planes carry much of the
  air postal traffic, but space is sometimes
  utilized in passenger plane storage areas.
• Intermodal - This method is most often employed
  when large shipping containers are transferred as
  is from ship to a train or truck.

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Reasons To Ship Your LTL Shipment Via FTL Freight

• Extremely Fragile Shipments
• FTL freight shipments Do not use the hub system.
  Due to this, items within your shipment are not
  touched or transferred between vehicles -
  substantially reducing the risk of damage. If
  your load contains elements that are at high risk
  of breakage, shipping FTL freight is the better
  option even if your shipment does not take up the
  full truck.
• Time Sensitive Shipments
• As the name suggests, shipping via FTL freight
  means that your items are the only items aboard
  the truck. There are no intermediary stops when
  using FTL freight, so your shipping time is
  significantly reduced versus shipping via LTL.

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Reasons To Ship Your LTL Shipment Via FTL Freight

• Very Heavy Shipments
• It is important to note that the decision to ship
  FTL versus LTL is not only a function of size.
  Container trucks must abide by strict weight
  restrictions. Although your shipment may not take
  up the full trailer, if your load meets the
  weight maximum for the entire truck, it must be
  shipped via FTL.
• Boundary Shipments
• If your shipment is right on the cusp between
  having to ship LTL versus FTL freight, it is
  advisable that you receive pricing for both LTL
  and FTL freight costs. If your shipment takes up
  over 70 of the truck, it is best to get pricing
  on both LTL and FTL freight. A lot of times
  shipping via FTL freight is cheaper especially
  when the timing is factored into the cost. In
  addition, every freight provider will have their
  own requirements. Although a truck may have the
  capacity to hold 30 pallets, your provider may
  require you to ship via FTL if your shipment will
  use over 50 of the trailers capacity. This
  requirement varies by provider.

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A Comparison between FTL Freight Transportation
And LTL Freight Transportation

• FTL freight transportation is one of the methods
  that is preferred by a number of shippers in
  moving their respective cargo from one point to
  another. This is due to its flexible nature and
  the associated affordability. When comparing FTL
  freight transportation to LTL freight
  transportation, we find that the two are quite
  different despite them performing truckload
  shipping.
• FTL freight transportation is considered to be
  more costly when compared to LTL freight
  transportation. However, the benefits associated
  with it are more as compared to the LTL. A good
  example is that there is no need of sharing the
  space of the truck with other company since the
  truck is in a position of moving to the required
  destination without the need of having other
  stops. However, for the LTL, there is several
  unloading and reloading of the shipments before
  reaching the intended destination. This is not a
  secure method as the cargo is likely to get
  damaged more so if it chances that it is fragile.

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A Comparison between FTL Freight Transportation
And LTL Freight Transportation

• FTL freight transportation is the best for large
  shipments as compared to LTL freight
  transportation. It is the correct choice to go
  for when your shipments need to fill the whole
  trailer space. It is in a position of holding
  shipments that exceed 15,000 pounds or those that
  exceed ten pallets whereas the LTL cannot exceed
  that.
• FTL freight transportation is observed to be fast
  when compared with the LTL freight
  transportation. This is because no unloading and
  reloading of the shipments take place on the way
  as compared to the LTL transportation which makes
  a number of stops on the way. This explains the
  reason why the transport time for the LTL is
  observed to be longer. As a result, FTL freight
  transportation is said reliable and economical.
  However, LTL can also be observed to be cheap as
  it charges low costs.

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Advantages and Disadvantages Of FTL Freight
Transportation

• FTL freight transportation is imagined to be
  costing more as compared to the truckload.
  However, FTL is accompanied by a number of
  benefits that are highlighted below
• FTL freight transportation is efficient when it
  comes to the transportation of the large product
  shipments.
• FTL freight transportation is optimal when it
  comes to the shipments that are fragile or it
  comes to the shipments with high risk.
• FTL freight transportation ensures that the
  products have been kept in the same truck over
  the period of transportation.
• FTL freight transportation is considered to be
  substantially faster as compared to the LTL.

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Advantages and Disadvantages Of FTL Freight
Transportation

• The FTL freight transportation industry favors
  the drivers involved over the businesses since
  the number of the shipments available are more as
  compared to the drivers.
• The FTL freight transportation is considered to
  be less effective in comparison to the LTL
  freight transportation.
• The products transported by FTL freight are
  vulnerable to only one point transit failure.
• FTL freight transportation is considered to be
  ideal when it comes to a number of industries
  that varies from one another starting from the
  shipment of a large number of items to a given
  area, the movement of the large quantities of the
  industrial goods, foods types that are bulk and
  not forgetting mass materials.

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