Modern warehousing plays an extremely important role in the development of an enterprise. It can reflect the modernization of an enterprise’s warehouse management. Good warehouse planning can increase the overall operation speed of the enterprise and better serve the enterprise. Therefore, how to do a good job in warehouse planning is one of the key factors affecting the development of enterprises. The following aspects involved in warehouse planning.
1. The overall reasonable warehouse layout design
According to the needs of warehouse production and management, plan the use of all facilities in the entire warehouse, determine the production, auxiliary production, administration and other places, the distribution and determination of warehouses, operations, roads, and guards, and distinguish various facilities and buildings. For example: you can set up special storage shelf area, picking area, office area, etc.
2. Specialization of warehouses
All uses and functions have been determined by the principles of professional planning. Generally, they are classified and partitioned according to the storage species. For specialized warehouses, they can be divided according to different operation methods. For example, species needs to be distinguished between first-in first-out and first-in-last-out, thereby improving warehouse efficiency.
3. Division of labor and management scope of warehouse employees
Determine the scope of shift and group management according to the management scope of warehouse employees, and determine warehouse job positions and job responsibilities. Arrangement and use of warehouse space, working road and warehouse working distance.
4. The future development of the warehouse
Including warehouse development strategy and scale (warehouse expansion, transformation, warehouse throughput, storage capacity growth, etc.) and warehouse mechanization development level and technical transformation direction, such as warehouse mechanization, automation level, etc.
5. The main economic indicators of the warehouse
Such as the utilization rate of main facilities of the warehouse, labor productivity, warehouse throughput and storage capacity, material turnover rate, storage capacity utilization rate, storage and transportation quality indicators, etc. Warehouse planning is actually the overall design of the warehouse area based on the reasonable layout and correct selection of the warehouse, and this design can influence or even determine the modern warehouse level of an enterprise and the direction of enterprise development.