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DCM Assignment ONE - October 22-23
DCM Assignment ONE - October 22-23
Project Scope
This project aims to allow students to apply knowledge acquired through weekly
lectures and tutorials into application-based scenario.
Assignment Requirements
The assignment will focus on THREE (3) key areas, namely:
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(A) Scenario
As part of the DC Setup Team from ORIENTAL LOGISTICS, your team has been
tasked to determine and evaluate the resources necessary to manage this DC. This
set of information is to be compiled into a proposal, and this will be submitted to the
management of ORIENTAL LOGISTICS for consideration.
You have been given the operational specifications, the expected daily volume and
ORIENTAL LOGISTICS’ business assumptions in Appendix A, Appendix B, and
Appendix C respectively. These data are to be carefully considered in the solutions
that your team will be proposing.
Describe how automation has been applied to take over the manual steps.
c. Advise ALPHA about the benefits and shortfalls of using automated method
for the DC processes. What do ALPHA have to take note about its inventory
when comes to using automation?
ASSESSMENT
The following appendices provide the basic information needed to complete this
project.
Operational Requirements
Customer ALPHA
Inbound Pallet – total 16 Five (5) pairs of shoes within One (1) Outbound Shipping
Cartons each Inbound Shipping Carton – Carton to end-Customer : each
each pair is considered a PIECE contains 1 pair of shoes.
APPENDIX B
2. Handlers : Supervisor = 10 : 1
APPENDIX C
WMS Enter Cargo receiving data for Pallet 200 Pallet WMS Keying
Breakbulk Break Shipping Cartons from Pallet 180 Carton Manual
Breakbulk Break Piece from Shipping Carton 300 Piece Manual
Movement Move UOM to Inbound Staging Area 250 UOM Manual
Putaway Put away Carton 120 Piece Manual
OUTBOUND
Process Category Task Productivity per hour UOM MHE
Picking Picking Pair 150 Pair Manual
Pick QC Check Pair 500 Pair Barcode scanner
Pick-WMS Update storage location information - Pair 200 Pair WMS Keying
Movement Move UOM to Outbound Working Area 250 UOM Manual
Pack QC Check Pair 500 Pair Barcode scanner
Packing Pack Pair into shipping carton & labelling 80 Pair Manual
Pack-WMS Enter Cargo packing data for Carton 200 Carton WMS Keying
OUTBOUND
Process Category Task Productivity per hour UOM Remarks
WMS + Picking Pick Pair from Automated Carton Storage & update storage records 250 Pair Auto System
Pick QC Check Pair 500 Pair Barcode scanner
Movement Move UOM to Outbound Working Area 450 UOM Conveyor