Warehouse Structure

The character of each area, the doors goods come through, and who does the work.

12 steps · 10 questions · 7 screens on this shelf

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The screens on this shelf

• Warehouse Map The floor, drawn: every bin colored by how full it is, the doors, the staging areas and the trailers standing
• Storage Types What KIND of space each area is, and the two decisions that follow from it: how stock is put away there and ho
• Dock Doors Where a vehicle meets the building. A real constraint: two trailers cannot be on one door, and a load whose do
• Staging Areas Where goods wait between the door and the rack, or between the pick and the truck. Measured in pallet position
• Warehouse Resources The people, trucks and handhelds that do the work. A resource that is a person IS an employee, so their produc
• Putaway Rules Which storage type an arriving item should go to, in what order to try. Evaluated most specific first: a rule
• Replenishment Rules Keeping the pick face full from the reserve, so a picker never walks to an empty bin.

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