Principles of Warehouse Design - Internal and External Layouts
The General Principles
General Principles
Dr Peter Baker of Cranfield University asked Mike Oliver to contribute to a book on The Principles of Warehouse Design he was compiling for the CILT.
Ensuring a good operational layout in a distribution facility, both internally and externally, will have a significant positive impact on labour productivity and facility throughput capacity. Taking into account the fixed costs associated with investment in land and buildings, plus annual charges associated with a facility, it is worthwhile investing time to optimize the layout of the site and buildings. An increased annual throughput reduces the fixed cost per case or item handled.
In designing a good operational layout, there are a number of general principles that should be applied:
- Allow movements to take place in a logically sequenced flow
- Avoid cross-traffic and bottlenecks
- Avoid unnecessary movement or travel
- Allow sufficient space buffer between process steps
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