Warehouse Management and Supply Coordination by Ignasi Masriera, Victor Gomez and Aleix Ballestero

Warehouse Management and Supply Coordination:

(Is the library a warehouse? Examples of logistics in case of natural disasters and Logistics in Healthcare)

Warehouse Management:

Moving the material flows in the supply chain is impossible without concentration in certain areas of necessary supplies, storage for dedicated storage. Movement through the warehouse due to the cost of labor and materials, which increases the cost of goods. In this regard, the problems associated with the operation of ware-houses, have a significant impact on the rationalization of movement of material flows in the supply chain, the use of vehicles and distribution costs.

Set of operations that are performed at various warehouses, fundamentally very sim- ilar. The reason is that different processes logistics warehouses perform similar func- tions are:
- Creation of stocks of raw materials, semi-finished or finished products
- Conversion of material flows
- The orderly storage and preparation for use in the process of moving object flows from producer to consumer object.
- Increase the rhythm and timing of production and operation of transport; improve land use enterprises; reduce downtime of vehicles and the total logistic costs; layoffs from unproductive handling and storage operations, and so on. d. Maintaining the quality of products to further its intended use.


Supply coordination:

Transport is part of the economic activity, which is associated with an increase in the degree of satisfaction of people and businesses by changing the geographical location of goods and people. Transport - means of satisfying needs through transportation of goods and passengers. Transportation - one of the key logistics functions associated with moving goods vehicle on a particular technology in the supply chain, consisting of logistics operations and functions, including forwarding, cargo handling, packaging, and transfer of ownership of the goods, risk insurance, customs proce- dures, and so on.  From an economic point of view, transport is one of the defining elements of the production process. The production and use of goods, there are two limiting factors - the time factor and the spatial factor.

The time factor is that the product produced today may only be required after a cer- tain period. Solve this problem by storing. The content of the spatial factor is that the producers and consumers of goods are rarely found in one place, and some distance from each other. Linking production and consumer, transport allows expanding the boundaries of production. Transport itself becomes gradually because the spatial factor - the development of transport and transport technology allows you to build further away from the production sites of consumption goods. Under market conditions, transport is always profitable.

Movement of goods - a change of location, subject to the principle of efficiency. This process should be economically justified, since the movement of goods spent money, time and environmental resources. Transportation requires financial re- sources - in the form of internal costs for transportation of goods own rolling stock, and external costs for this purpose commercial or public transport. Thus, function defines the main transport its goal - delivery of goods to their destination as quickly as possible, cheaper, and with the least damage to the environment. It is also necessary to minimize the loss and damage of goods transported while fulfilling customer requirements for timely delivery and to provide information about the goods in transit.

Storage of goods as a function of the transport takes place in order to save money on the feasibility of re-handling and unloading (when the cost of such operations exceed the losses from idle loaded rolling stock) failure of storage capacity and the need to change the route of cargo. This increases the residence time of goods in transit. In general, the use of vehicles for temporary storage is expensive, but it is justified in terms of overall costs, if transshipment is overhead, if there are no other opportunities for storage, or if the extension is acceptable delivery times. The main principle of transport logistics, as well as all the logistics in general, is to optimize costs.


LIBRARY:

The library is not just a book warehouse anymore. We could understand a library like a warehouse because it is used such as a home to delivery and let books to the public but is more than this idea. It also is a center of destribution books, a library is an intermediary between publishers and readers. A library has all the logistics aspects of a warehouse: all the books are in order to find them easily, some people are in charge of the correct distribution and control of the stocks and clients go there to take the books. There is a big difference between a library and a ordinal warehouse: in a general warehouse product enters and leaves to the client but never comes back again, on the other hand in a library the product and stock do not change so often because they have the same number of books for a long period.
 
One example of Logistics in Healthcare is pharmaceutical sector:
Many basic logistics processes follow the same way: purchases, stocks, transports and distribute to sale, one time the public decide to buy. The quantity of stock often have to be more than you expect to sale to prevent attendance for the customers. The logistic process in the case of some pharmaceutical enterprise are based on provisioning in the right amount. This consists on estimate and schedule the products that you think you’ll need assuming criteria administratives and health technician for their selection.




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