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Store Keeping
Store Keeping
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STORE KEEPING
Receive, store, and issue materials, parts, factory
supplies at minimum cost
It is serving facility, inside an org., responsible for
proper storage of the material and then issuing it to
respective departments on proper requisition
Protect the goods stored
Store room, storekeeper
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OBJECTIVES OF STORE-KEEPING
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DUTIES OF STOREKEEPING
As per Maynard
The duty of store keeping are
To receive materials
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TYPES OF STOREKEEPING
Storekeeping
Centralized Decentralized
storekeeping storekeeping
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CENTRALIZED STOREKEEPING
Central storekeeping
means the spatial summary
of all storekeeping functions
and all stored materials
under uniform line.
Advantages- an easement of
the goods received, care,
preservation, inventory
determination and -
examination.
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DECENTRALIZED STOREKEEPING
During the decentralized
storekeeping the materials
used at the place of the user
are stored in the form of
temporary storage facilities
(buffer camp).
Balance
function
Assortment Improving
function function
Functions
of storekeeping
Security speculation
function function
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FUNCTIONS OF STORE-KEEPING
Balance function:
If the procurement quantity is larger than the
output, then by the balance function the material
redundant for production is stored.
Assortment function
With the supply or assortment function the
storekeeping contributes to a continuity in the
assortment. To that extent the supply function
supplements the balance function, since thereby the
parts of the assortment, where discrepancy between
procurement and paragraph exists, are bridged.
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Security function
This can be the case, if products, which are coined/shaped by
delivery bottlenecks and/or seasonal fluctuations, must be procured.
Improving function
The improving function is called also production function of the
camp, which makes possible only a following processing. An
improving function develops, if the storage causes a change of the
product and part of the production process.
Speculation function
Reasons for the speculation function of the storage can be
foreseeable extreme price fluctuations on the procurement market or
particularly low cost prices. In addition can be speculated to the
discounts received thereby by the order of large quantities and in
camp commodity.
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Why storekeeping?
Receiving, handling and speedy issue of material.
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VARIOUS SECTIONS IN STOREKEEPING
Receiving section
Location
Working procedures
Layout of stores
Stores section Stores equipment
Material handling facility
Identification of materials
Issue section
Accounting section
Receiving
OUTSIDE INTERNAL
SUPPLIERS SUPPLIERS
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OUTSIDE SUPPLIERS
Dispatching items- date of dispatch, carrier details,
description of the consignment and the value of items.
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1. RECEIVING SECTION
INTERNAL SUPPLIERS
Whenever materials are received from internal
divisions or returned from user departments transfer
notes and returns to stores documents are usually
used for this purpose.
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2. STORES SECTION
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Location of stores
to provide space to the materials till these are issued to
the, respective departments of the enterprise.
Working Procedure
receives the materials from receiving sections.
material is classified and coded according to their nature
and use.
bin card is tagged.
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Stores Bin Card
Card No. Part No.
Description Location
Date
The bin card contains up to date information about the receipt,
issue and balance of the respective item in the stock.
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Layout of stores section
1. Flexible in arrangement
2. Convenience in physical
counting of materials.
3. Efficient use of floor space
and height.
4. Minimum handling and
transportation of materials .
5. Items used sparingly shed.
Be easy to locate.
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Stores equipment
A good store is equipped for handling, measuring and
weighing the materials.
The equipment should be such that stores investment
and operating expenses are reduced.
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Bins: Bins are expensive & as Many item as possible should be put
into them, refilling being done on a regular basis.
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Racks: Racks can be used either as the picking face for items which
are too big or heavy fir bin accommodation, or else for keeping
reserve stocks for replenishing bins.
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Static racking Live racking
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Drive through racking
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Pallets: pallets are specially designed platforms for the stacking of goods,
with view to the whole load being moved, wherever it is required, by a
fork-lift.
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Identification of materials in stores
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METHODS OF CODING
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LOCATION CODING
The location can be identified in terms of the number of the
warehouse , row number, column number, rack number, shelf
or bin number etc.
Location of any item inside the stock can also be decided in
three ways:-
Fixed Location:- Here some fixed place is designated to each
class of item. The basis can be like Supplier wise, item wise,
utility of the item etc.
Random Location :- Items are placed according to the
availability space in store at the time of receiving the items.
Zonal Location:- like Bulk Zone, Reserve stock, indirect
material like spares and consumable items .
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3. ISSUE SECTION
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4. ACCOUNTING SECTION
The accounts section exercises financial control over stores.
The goods receipt book is maintained for all arrivals, making
the receipt in triplicate, a copy of which is sent to accounts
section and other to the store section.
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5. STOCK TAKING CHECKING
This implies physical checking of items in store to see that
these are in accordance with the entries of stores ledger.
METHODS OF STOCK CHECKING ARE
FIXED ANNUAL INVENTORY:- A special team is deputed
to check and count the material inside the stores at the end of
each financial year.
PERPETUAL INVENTORY:- In this system the stock control
department maintain up to date and systematic records of each
and every transaction. There is a system of continuous
verification of stock. The entries on bin card and stores ledger
should tally with each other. In case of discrepancies thorough
investment is made.
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Cost Control &
Cost Reduction
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Cost Control
keeping the expenditure
within acceptable limits.
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Cost Control Process
Establishing norms
Appraisal
Corrective measures
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Cost Control in Individual Cost
Elements
Raw material
Wages
Power & fuel
Stores & spare parts
Overheads
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Advantages of Cost Control
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Tools of cost control
Ratio analysis.
Value analysis.
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Cost Reduction
Definition:
Cost reduction has been defined as: The achievement
of real and permanent reductions in the unit cost of
goods manufacturing or services rendered without
impairing their suitability for the use intended .
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Cost reduction can be effected by either of the
following ways:
By increasing productivity
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Areas of reduction
Design
Factory organization and method
Production planning
Layout and equipment
Utility services
Marketing
Finance
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Techniques in cost reduction
Economic batch quantity(EBQ)
It is that point where carrying costs equals set up cost
approximately. At this point the total cost will also be
minimum.
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Illustration of problem
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Solution
EOQ=
= 200 units
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Calculating TC (no discount)
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Calculating TC (3% discount)
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Non conventional approach :
Material cost
Funding cost
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Material cost :
e-sourcing
discovery of new sources
competitive pressures
Rationalization of suppliers
Thrust on value engineering
Re-visiting designs
Application oriented engineering
Product life cycle management
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Manpower cost
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Importance of Cost control and cost reduction
2 drivers:
To stay profitable
Offering quality product at cheaper price- eliminate unproduction
expenditure
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Cost + margin = selling price
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Changing perspective of profits:
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Precautions in Implementing Cost
Reduction Programs
appropriate to the organization.
introduction and implementation - planned
Resistance by employees to reduce costs
No overlap - cost reduction / double counting of
reductions / savings.
Effect of success in one area not affect the other
should not have any undesirable effects on external
parties
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Planning for Cost Reduction
1. Crash programmes
2. Planned programmes
3. Short range programmes
4. Long range programmes
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Importance of Cost Control& Cost Reduction
Better utilization of resources
To prepare for meeting a future competitive position.
Reasonable price for the customers
Firm standing in domestic and export markets.
Improved methods of production and use of latest
manufacturing techniques
By a continuous search for improvement creates proper
climate for the increase efficiency.
Improves the image of company for long-term benefits.
Improve the rate of return on investment.
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Cost Control v/s Cost Reduction
Cost Control Cost Reduction
1. It is the competitive analysis of actual This process finds out the substitute by
results with established norms. finding new ways or methods.
2. The variances are appraised and The necessary steps are taken for further
reported and necessary course of action modification in the method.
will be taken to revise norms, standards
etc.
3. It starts from established cost standards It challenges the standards forth-with and
and attempts to keep the cost of operations attempts to reduce cost on continuous
of a process in line with those standards. basis.
4. The emphasis is on the present and past The emphasis is partly on the present costs
behavior of costs. and largely on future costs.
5. It attempts to achieve the best possible Under this no conditions are considered to
results at the least cost under given be permanent where a change will secure a
conditions. lowest cost figure.
6. Cost control is a preventive function. Cost reduction is a corrective function.
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