What are the contents of warehouse planning

Warehouse planning refers to a certain area or warehouse, the general layout of the warehouse, the number, size, geographical location and facilities within the warehouse and other elements of scientific planning and overall design. If you are a warehouse planning industry rookie, as long as you master the following 5 tips, seconds to become an expert is not a dream!

1, information statistics

The information statistics here include the information of the warehouse building itself, as well as shelves, goods and other specific information, including the following aspects in detail:

Warehouse-related information: the net height of the warehouse, the size of the area in the warehouse, the number of support columns, the width of each span, the distance between the two spans, and so on; the operation of the tool used to Whether the use of pallets, the size of the pallet, whether to use a forklift or clamping machine, the length of the machine, width, turning radius is how much, etc.; the use of flat warehouse, shelving warehouse, or three-dimensional warehouse; access to the size of the vehicle, the number of access to the warehouse door, the number of platforms, etc.; classification of goods, the size of the packaging of each category, the number of stacking levels, whether strict first-in-first-out, whether or not to break up the zero out of the warehouse, and so on.

2, data processing and analysis

The data collected above are processed and analyzed, and the resultant data are formatted into charts and graphs, which are presented in an intuitive way. Its purpose is to be able to better communicate with superiors and relevant departments, other departments for your specific library of how many forklifts, how much cargo is not at all cold, if you can express the way the chart will be more conducive to your communication with them, the better to realize your vision.

3, system requirements analysis

Warehousing business as a whole, which each step constitutes a part of the overall system, the reasonable integration and optimization of these elements in order to achieve the ultimate ideal state.

Such as the optimization of inventory can not be separated from the reasonable planning of the warehouse, the timely rate of orders out of the warehouse, the effective use of space, and the reasonable layout of the channel and other factors.

At the same time, their vision for the overall business to a few WMS vendors, after all, the future you also need to make system purchases, it is better to listen to their views, so that the later on the information technology system can also be more quickly realized.

4, the development of a number of programs

After all the analysis is over, usually formulate two to three options, and the program to analyze the advantages and disadvantages of the program, combined with the future development trend of the business forecasts, and ultimately selected a set of definitive planning program.

It is important to note that each proposal needs to be very detailed to spell out the benefits of doing so and to make it different and special from the others, so that the organization can move forward as a whole.

5, the implementation of the implementation of the program

Mainly on the results of the analysis done in the early stages, in accordance with the program has been developed in the form of physical implementation of the warehouse, such as the following:

Painting the warehouse line (pay attention to the distance between the wall, the distance between the columns, the pedestrian aisle, safe passage, the cargo aisle, the hydrant safety distance); all kinds of signage paste, hanging (warehouse partition signage, warehouse signage, warning messages, fire hydrant safety distance); the signage, hanging (warehouse signage, the warehouse signage, warning messages, the fire hydrant safety distance) Storage signs, warning signs, operating regulations, 5S, etc.); the installation of shelves; other auxiliary areas of the division of the painting line (such as forklift parking area, health tools area, pallet area, scrap area, etc.); in addition to the above steps, should also pay attention to the configuration of the software system, including the scanning facilities, monitoring facilities, etc., and the application of the WMS system, so as to create a complete and practical warehouse storage space.