Logistics Assignment | College Homework Help

Allied Electronic Ltd. Company manufactures and sells 100 different electrical products that are stored in a warehouse next to the production plant. Customer orders are picked and dispatched from this building throughout the Africa. This company through there sales Manager Miss. Mercy has identified an opportunity in the market and can significantly increase the company’s turnover, but they do not have the manufacturing capacity to enable them to take advantage of this opportunity. A consultant pointed out to them that they could source a further 200 different electrical products from a third-party manufacturer in the Far East, and this they have decided to do. The current warehouse setup is as follows:

· The warehouse currently operates a block stacking system for pallet storage, and each 1.25 metre high pallet can be stacked 4 high to a height 6 metres.

· The warehouse roof is 10 metres high.

· A separate section is laid out with single pallets from where product can be picked for customer orders.

· Staff picks single orders at a time using hand pallet trucks.

· A counterbalance fork truck is used to move product around the warehouse

Bearing in mind the increased lead times from third-party suppliers, particularly the distance product needs to be transported from the Far East to the Kenya, and the fact that a huge increase in stock will need to be stored anyway,

Get Business & finance homework help today

Case questions

Explain how the company can, without altering the building dimensions:

1. Improve order turnaround and efficiency by improving picking practices

2. Ensure health, security and safety is managed in their warehouse:

3. Minimise   the movement within the warehouse during order picking

Discuss   the questions which Allied Electronic Ltd. Company stores manager should ask before receiving any good from suppliers