This week’s topics
Warehouse layout and workflow design
- U-shaped and straight-through configurations
- Picking route optimisation
- Cross-docking operations
- Handling equipment selection
- Mod-08 Lec-33 Location allocation problems in supply chain. Layout
What you will be able to do
- 2.3 Assess how layout, equipment and workflow affect warehouse performance.
Activity
Start with this week’s video, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: assess how layout, equipment and workflow affect warehouse performance.
Study materials
Videos
- Warehouse Layout Design | U-Shaped vs I-Shaped vs L-Shaped Warehouses · YouTube · Learn With Dr. Hakeem-Ur-Rehman · 6 min · for registered students
- Different Types of Warehouse Layouts · YouTube · Logistics Sector Skill Council · 7 min · for registered students
- Warehouse Design Principles | Warehouse Design and Layout | How to Design Warehouse Layout · YouTube · 10 Min For Supply Chain · 8 min · for registered students
- Warehousing - 10 Principles of Design and Operations · YouTube · Supply Chain Secrets · 22 min · for registered students
- The 4 Warehouse Design Principles - F.A.C.T. · YouTube · Supply Chain Secrets · 5 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Introduction to Logistics, ch. 5: Warehousing · Reading · Other, textbook chapter; PDF pp. 100–126 · for registered students
- Operations Management (Fanshawe), ch. 10: Layout Strategy and Design · Reading · Other, textbook chapter; PDF pp. 399–440 · for registered students
- Warehousing and storage: A guide to health and safety (HSG76, 2nd ed. 2007) · PDF · Hse, guidance; 155 pages · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
