DESIGN WAREHOUSES FOR FLEXIBILITY

Facility design is increasingly complex because of the multiple activities now taking place in warehouses, according to Mike Briggs, UPS Worldwide Logistics. In the design process, you need a project sponsor or project manager - a control point for the project. The design team should include enginee...

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Published in:Transportation & distribution 1998-10, Vol.39 (10), p.119-126
Main Author: Richardson, Helen L
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Buildings and facilities
Storage and moving industry
Warehousing
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Summary:Facility design is increasingly complex because of the multiple activities now taking place in warehouses, according to Mike Briggs, UPS Worldwide Logistics. In the design process, you need a project sponsor or project manager - a control point for the project. The design team should include engineering, operations, information systems, finance, marketing, customer service, purchasing/sourcing, manufacturing, and customers. The experts suggest five years as a comfortable level for companies to project their business volumes. Less than five years does not allow time for implementation and payback. When it comes to actually designing a facility, computer assisted design software lets designers do the detail work quickly and accurately. Existing systems may be one of several constraints you have to design around. You also need to know and budget limitations. One of the most frequent mistakes people make in designing an operation is not including people involved in the day-to-day running of the operation.
ISSN:0895-8548