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Forklifts, Reach stackers, Pallet Trucks, Heavy duty racks, Slotted Angle Racks, Cranes, Hoists,
Hand Rails, Bollards, Wire Partitions are all example of Material Handling Equipment.

MHE are used to increase output, control costs, and maximize productivity. A well designed
materials handling system attempts to achieve the following:

• Improve efficiency of a warehouse system by ensuring the right quantity of materials delivered
at the right place at the right time most economically.
• Cut down indirect labour cost.
• Reduce damage of materials during storage and movement.
• Maximize space utilization by proper storage of materials and thereby reduce storage and

handling cost.
• Minimize accident during materials handling.
• Reduce overall cost by improving materials handling.

Straight-Thru flow design: • Improve customer services by supplying materials in a manner convenient for handlings.

‘Straight Through’ flow happens when separate loading bay facilities for outbound and shipping
are provided, often at opposite end of warehouse. Products flow in at receiving, move into storage, The following principles may be used in designing good material handling system in a warehouse:
picking area and then the marshaling and dispatch area in a straight line. Items with a higher 2.3 Warehouse Management System (WMS)
throughput level are located at the center of the warehouse because the total distance travelled
would be shorter. An example of a ‘Through’ flow layout design is shown on the below figure. The A warehouse management system (WMS) is a complex software package that helps manage
inventory, storage locations, and the workforce, to ensure that customer orders are picked quickly,
major disadvantage is that it is difficult to take advantage of ABC storage and dual command trips.
packed, and shipped. A typical WMS knows about every item in the warehouse, its physical
dimensions, how it is packed by the vendor, all the storage locations in the warehouse, and their
addresses and physical dimensions. With this knowledge, the WMS orchestrates the flow of people,
machines, and product.
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TRUCK ENTERS STORE SELECT SHIP The Warehouse Management System controls two sets of operations:

1. On the inventory front, the system maintains inventory in the warehouse at Zone &
2.2 Associate Warehouse and its functions individual location level, SKU level, pallet wise, carton wise and unit level inventories for
multiple customers and allows specific inventory attributes and parameters to be built in to
2.2 Equipment available in the warehouse manage, allocate or block the inventory. The system also provides options to adapt FIFO,
LIFO or other methods of inventory flow.
Material handling equipment is mechanical equipment used for the movement, storage, control
and protection of materials, goods and products throughout the process of distribution, consumption 2. On the Operations front the system manages, controls and directs all operations including
and disposal. Materials handling includes moving, packaging, and storing all the materials used receiving processes, put away processes, order processing, inventory allocation, picking

inside the warehouse.The different kinds of equipment which are used in a warehouse can be process, packing process and finally shipment along with inventory updating. The intelligent
broadly classified into three categories, viz, storing equipment, material handling equipment and system guides and helps operations manager to schedule and manage all operations for
safety equipment. A judicious selection of different store equipment is a key to the successful various groups and teams simultaneously depending upon the workload and pattern and
operation of a storeroom. thereby manage resource allocation too.