What are the advantages and disadvantages of private warehouse?
Advantages: Private warehouses provide more control since
the enterprises has absolute decision-making authority The control facilitates the ability to integrate warehouse operations with the rest of the firm’s internal logistics process.
仓库布局
fixed slot location system 固定货位系统
variable slot location system 流动货位系统
labor-intensive
劳动力密集的
mechanization
机械化
automation
自动化
General Considerations of Warehousing Design
Maim purpose is to maximize throughput
Types of Warehouses
Private warehouse
This type of warehouses are owned or occupied on a long-term lease by the firm using them.
5. Contract warehousing also tends to be more cost-effective than private warehousing with almost the same degree of control, because key specifications can be included in the contract.
To understand the concept of warehousing
To identify the various types of warehousing
To examine the trade-offs in warehousing design
To get familiar with the concept of cross-docking
Public warehouse
The public warehouse is space that can be leased to solve short-term distribution needs.
Why more and more companies are using public warehouse service nowadays?
Because public warehouse has certain advantages:
it require no capital investment on the user’s part, therefore more flexibility
provide additional storage space to private warehouses owner if their facilities have reached capacity limit
Disadvantages:
high fixed cost of private storage the necessity of having high and steady
demand volumes
What kind of companies usually own their private warehouses?
Chapter Three Warehousing Management
Text 5 Warehousing Management Text 6 Design Considerations in Warehousing Supplementary Reading : Cross docking
Learning objective
Contract warehousing is becoming a preferred choice for many organizations, why ?
Answer:
it allow a company to focus on its core competencies
tends to be more cost-effective than private warehousing with almost the same degree of control
4. Contract warehousing is a long term, mutually beneficial arrangement which the operators of warehouse facility provide unique and specially tailored warehousing and logistics services for one customer. 合同仓储是一个长期 的双方互惠协定，仓储设施的经营人对其客户提 供独特的，专门的仓储和物流服务。
合同仓储往往还比私人仓储更经济，却能 达到和私人仓储相近的控制度，因为企业 的重要要求都可以在合同中详细列明。
Topic for Discussion:
1. The text mentions that private warehousing is characterized by some drawbacks, including high fixed cost of private storage and the necessity of having high and steady demand volumes. Why private warehousing generally generate high fixed cost?
3. Public warehouses may also provide a number of specialize services that aren’t available from other sources, such as valueadded services as repackaging larger shipments into retail-size package, product assembly and produce testing. 公共仓库可能提 供许多其他地方不能提供的专业服务，比如提供 将较大宗货物重新进行零售包装，产品组装和产 品测试等增值服务。
Key Terms 关键词汇
warehousing
仓储
warehouse
仓库
private Warehouse 私人仓库
public warehouse 公共仓库
contract warehouse 合同仓库
distribution center 配送中心
General Introduction of Warehousing
Warehouses emphasize the storage of product
primary purpose is to maximize usage of available storage space
distribution centers emphasize the rapid movement of products through a facility
2. What make a distribution center different from a warehouse?
Text 6 Design Considerations in Warehousing
Key Terms
warehousing design
仓储设计
warehouse layout
What is warehousing? Warehousing has been defined as the part
of logistics systems that store products (raw materials, parts, goods-in-process, finished goods…) at and between points of origin to points of consumption Warehousing can be provided by either warehouses or distribution centers
Contract warehousing is a long term, mutually beneficial arrangement which provides unique and specially tailored warehousing and logistics services for one customer
Answer:
The largest users of private warehousing are retail chain stores, they handle large volumes of products on a regular basis.
Manufacturing firms also utilize private warehousing.
In some cases, such as with distribution centers handling perishable food
:
1. Warehousing can be provided by either warehouses or distribution centers. Warehouse emphasizes the storage of product and their primary purpose is to maximize usage of available storage space. 仓储可以由仓库或配送中心提供。 仓库强调产品的存储，其主要目标是存储空间的最 大化使用。