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Warehouse (1)

It is typically viewed as a place to store inventory.

Warehouse (2)

It is more properly viewed as a switching facility because it delivers the raw materials, industrial goods, and finished products when needed at the most convenient locations.

General warehouse

This type of facility is primarily for the storage and protection of goods, with the need to minimize handling and movement.

Distribution warehouse

In this facility, goods are received in large volumes.

The goods are then sorted, stored, and then consolidated into customer orders for fulfillment.

Seasonal production

Some products with irregular supply such as agricultural commodities must be stored properly to preserve them until the time for market distribution.

Seasonal demand

The production of these goods may take place throughout the year to meet the peak.

There is a need to store these goods in a warehouse to make them available at the time of need.

Production economies of scale

These large quantities of finished products need to be stored properly until purchased by the customer.

Quick supply

These goods are made available near the place of consumption so these goods are made available to the consumers at the time of their need.

(e.g. Grocery stores)

Continuous production

These needs to keep sufficient quantities of raw materials in the warehouse.

(e.g. Garment firm keeps multiple rolls of threads for clothing production)

Price Stabilization

It means keeping the supply of goods in balance.

(e.g. Philippine government for the supply of rice)

Factory warehouse

This type of facility connects production with wholesalers.

It typically supplies a small number or large orders daily with advance information about the order make-up.

Order makeup

It pertains to the accurate number of order/goods required in a particular geographical area/market.

Retail distribution warehouse

This type of facility serves as a number of internal trade units.

They have advance information about order detail and generate more orders per shift.

Catalog retailer/e-tailer

This type of facility files a large number of small orders from brochure sales.

The composition of orders in this type of warehouse is usually unknown, with limited availability of statistical information.

Support warehouse

This type of facility is a relatively small warehouse or stock room that provides raw materials and work in process to business operations.

There are many small orders driven by production schedules, and in some cases, there is only statistical information available about order composition.

Distribution center (DCs)

This types of warehouse facility is stocked with products (usually finished goods) to be redistributed to retailers, wholesalers, or directly to consumers.

Retail distribution center

This type of facility primarily distributes goods to retail stores.

Order-fulfillment center

This type of facility distributes goods directly to consumers.

Consolidation

This type of warehouse facility receives materials from several sources and combines them into exact quantities for a specific destination.

Break-bulk

This type of warehouse facility often receives a single large shipment that is arranged for delivery to multiple destinations.

These are common in the less-than-truckload (LTL) trucking industry.

Cross-docking

This type of warehouse is used heavily in retail distribution to delivery inventory to retail locations.

This entails the practice of unloading materials from an incoming semi-trailer truck or railroad car and loading these materials directly into outbound trucks, trailers, or rail cars.

24 to 48 hours

Reverse logistics

This type of facility is used to store returned items from end users.

This is the process of moving goods from their final destination for proper disposal, remanufacturing, and refurbishing.

Public warehouse

This is essentially a space that can be leased to solve short or long term distribution needs.

Can change per pallet or charge for each square meter.

Pallet

It is a transport structure that support goods when being lifted or moved.

Household products

Personal care

Grocery industries

Industries that is common the use shared public warehouse facilities

Private warehouse

This type of warehouse is owned or operated by channel suppliers and resellers and used in their own distribution activity.

Contract warehouse

This type of warehouse handles shipping, receiving, and storage of products based on a particular agreement.

It generally requires a client to commit to a specific period.

It requires clients to purchase or pay for storage and material-handling.

Bonded warehouse

This type of warehouse is licensed to accept imported goods for storage before the payment of custom duties.

An importer gains some control without paying the duty.

Goods are under the supervision of supervision of customs officers, and permission is necessary before the owner can access them.

Government warehouse

This type of warehouse is owned, managed, and controlled by central or state administrations, public corp, or local authorities.

Cooperative warehouse

This type of warehouse is owned, managed, and controlled by communal societies.

Cost-effectiveness

Warehouses allow consolidation and break-bulk operations, which lowers the shipping costs since total transport costs are shared among them.

Accumulation

Warehouses allow advanced placement of inventories.

This reduces transport costs since products are already made available to the warehouses on a year-round basis.

Postponement

Warehouses can be used to delay production by performing processing, simple manufacturing, and labelling activities.

Allocation

Warehouses match on-hand inventory to customer orders.

Market presence

It is based on perception or belief that local warehouses can be more responsive to customer needs and can offer quicker delivery.

Cost-effectiveness

Accumulation

Postponement

Allocation

Market presence

Warehouse Economic Benefits