Customers demand better service from the stores. This increased demand is reflected, for example, to reduce response times and broken stock.
however, try to provide the best service possible, trying to raise, in turn, productivity of the warehouse. To this end, the stock should be sized so as to ensure maximum rotation and productivity on the one hand and adequate service delivery points, on the other.
The need for segmentation of markets and the ever-changing consumer habits, require companies to market a greater number of makes and models, resulting in a greater number of references to manage the store.
Returning to the demands of customers, they tend to place orders more frequent and smaller, of course, in order not to bear the costs of holding the stock. This, in addition to involving a larger number of line items in the store to prepare, extremely difficult to optimize the occupation of the trucks, con lo que la gestión del almacén se vuelve mas compleja.
En definitiva, lo que se pretende resaltar es que el almacén ha dejado de ser un mero espacio físico donde las mercaderías esperan su salida, una mala gestión del almacén puede derrochar mucho dinero y hacer perder clientes. Por el contrario, una buena gestión, facilita una reducción de los gastos y puede garantizar una buena calidad de servicio a los clientes.
PRINCIPIOS DE ALMACENAJE
A la hora de gestionar un almacén, se debe tener presente una seria de principios básicos que garanticen un óptimo funcionamiento del mismo:
* Coordinación: El almacén no es un entity isolated from the rest of the company. In this sense, the storage function should be coordinated with the functions of procurement, production and distribution, among others, adopting the principles of integrated logistics.
* Balance: A store should look essentially two main aspects, such as the level of service and level of inventory. Often, by trying to optimize one of the variables are detrimental to the other, so you should try to find a balance. * Minimize
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- Space used: physical space to store the products must be fully exploited, so that the relationship products stored / used space is maximized.
- The Manipulations: routes and movement of both people and products, should be simplified and reduced to the extent possible. This will help eliminate, or at least reduce non-value transactions but many costs added.
- Risks: no need to stress that affect too much store should anticipate any risks to their staff and their products and facilities.
* Flexibility: when designing a warehouse, it is always advisable to take into account the possible need for changes that will have in the future, in order to adapt to new situations that may arise.
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