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Workshop Understanding The Distribution Center LayouT
Workshop Understanding The Distribution Center LayouT
Workshop Understanding The Distribution Center LayouT
Actividad de aprendizaje 9
GESTION LOGISTICA
b. Read and match. Read the definition for each of the areas that a
distribution center may include and match the definition with the name of
such area.
Following, you’ll see the very basic design of any Distribution Center. Check the image and
answer the questions:
Fuente: SENA
1. Make sure you have enough pallets to store all your goods
on them.
2. Organize your pallets evenly in specific racks in such way
that it is easy for the machinery –forklifts- to access them.
3. There should be enough space for your equipment or
machinery to move through the warehouse.
4. The machinery or equipment station must be far the shipping
and receiving area in order to load and unload freight trucks.
5. The offices must be located in front of the warehouse
racking for you to supervise the activity within the warehouse.
Let’s check another example of a distribution center. Pay attention to the different
areas within this distribution center and answer the questions below:
Fuente: SENA
B) Write sentences to describe the previous distribution center. Do not forget to
use prepositions to describe their location. Check the example:
A) Pros and Cons. Read the following statements about Distribution Center
Design and decide in your agree or disagree with the statement. Do some
research on the topic and provide pros and cons for each statement.
CONS:
-Flexible Distribution Centers tends to
be more disorganized. It is hard to
keep control of the changes.
Save space: cram as ma Your opinion: Before putting
pallet racks ny more
into yo pallets and racks is to optimize space
warehouse as ur looking for better cost more money.
possible PROS: i spac great
Efficiency n es er
money gain.
CONS: It implies a constant control
over the type of product, behavior of
rotation.
Having an aisle map will help Your opinion: The signage is important
you validate that the correct for security, location, guidance for the
item is in the assigned actors involved.
location.
PROS: The aisle maps not only
facilitates the location of the article,
but also to propose ideas for a new
organization.
CONS: It demands an efficient design,
implementation that needs resources
time to invest in standardization.
Provide for the level of Your opinion: It is necessary to
automation that can be cost- identify critical points in the logistic
justified based on your process, see which ones can be
particular operation and cost automated and
structure. which should be manual by ensuring
their quality in the process.
PROS: Gain time for other processes
that are more critical and make the
operation efficient.
CONS: Investigation of the process
and
high investment.
4. Sharing your opinion
The design of a logistics center implies knowing the current regulations in the
economic areas, security regulations, environmental management, and customs
labor.
The location inside the center, optimizing spaces, avoiding long displacements
from storage to unloading and reception area, avoiding the transit of personnel of
support processes, reinforcing security with security demarcations, optimizing
spaces and having a design of process that allows to identify the critical activities
to evaluate which can be automated.
The optimization of storage spaces based on volume, rotation and value of the
product will allow minimizing risks, greater renability and better control of them.