Warehouse Procedure Manual
Procedure Manual Revised 9:16 AM 4.3.2 Warehouse Shipping and Receiving Flowchart Warehouse Administrator Inbound Load Entry into LOGIMAX DATABASE Scan Load Into Inventory Load is not Correct Verify Load With EDI Rpt LABEL EACH PALLET. Without this Guide, department procedures are “understood” by everyone and often this leads to inconsistencies and misunderstandings which all result in errors, some even very costly.
• 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 • 11 • 12 • 13 • 14 • 15 • 16 • 17 Definition A simple definition of a warehouse is: ‘A warehouse is a planned space for the storage and handling of goods and material.’ () In general, warehouses are focal points for product and information flow between sources of supply and beneficiaries. However, in humanitarian supply chains, warehouses vary greatly in terms of their role and their characteristics. Global Warehouses The global warehousing concept has gained popularity over the last decade as stock pre-positioning becomes one of the strategies for ensuring a timely response to emergencies. They are usually purpose built or purpose designed facilities operated by permanent staff that has been trained in all the skills necessary to run an efficient facility or utilising third party logistics (3PL) staff and facilities. For such operations, organisations use, information systems that are computer based, with sophisticated software to help in the planning and management of the warehouse. The operating situation is relatively stable and management attention is focused on the efficient and cost effective running of the warehouse operation. Numerous organizations have centralized pre-positioning units strategically located globally.
Sop Warehouse Procedure Manual
Some of these offer extended services to other humanitarian organizations on a cost plus operating charges basis. Field Warehouses Field Warehouses are usually temporary in nature. They may be housed in a buildings which was not designed to be used as a warehouse, in a temporary building/structures, and are often in mobile units (rub halls, Wiikhalls) that are little more than a tent in a field. The initial staff may be a casual workforce that has never worked in a warehouse before and the inventory system is more likely to be paper based. Often the situation is initially chaotic, sometimes dangerous and coupled with a humanitarian need which may be very urgent. The management style must therefore be practical and action oriented with a focus on making the humanitarian goods available as quickly and efficiently as possible, while being accountable at the same time.
Warehouse Policies And Procedures Manual
Policies and Procedures Policies The policies contain hard and fast rules and regulations that define the general conduct of the warehouse operation. Examples of the types of policies that organisations will define are as follows: • organisational specific • health and safety • human resources management • security • pest control • warehouse maintenance and cleaning • quality control • record keeping and reporting • reverse logistics – Return of goods and exit strategy in the event of downscaling or shutting down operations • disposal of obsolete and damaged goods. Procedures The procedures' document defines step by step how the activities in the warehouse should be carried out and clearly defines the processes to be adopted. These can be adopted as ‘best practice’.