Warehouse Structure
The character of each area, the doors goods come through, and who does the work.
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Warehouse Map
The floor, drawn: every bin colored by how full it is, the doors, the staging areas and the trailers standing in the yard.
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Storage Types
What KIND of space each area is, and the two decisions that follow from it: how stock is put away there and how it is taken out.
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Dock Doors
Where a vehicle meets the building. A real constraint: two trailers cannot be on one door, and a load whose door is occupied is a load that will not leave on time.
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Staging Areas
Where goods wait between the door and the rack, or between the pick and the truck. Measured in pallet positions and floor area, which is why it is not a bin.
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Warehouse Resources
The people, trucks and handhelds that do the work. A resource that is a person IS an employee, so their productivity is reported against their record and a leaver stops being a resource without anybody remembering to do it here.
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Putaway Rules
Which storage type an arriving item should go to, in what order to try. Evaluated most specific first: a rule naming this item beats one naming its category.
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Replenishment Rules
Keeping the pick face full from the reserve, so a picker never walks to an empty bin.
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