Developing a Coding and Location Systems in a Store House
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Preamble As part of the requirements for the award of the Higher National Diploma, H.N.D, each student is required to prepare a Project Work in his or her chosen field of study. The study must be original and must be the results of independent work of the student. In the light of this, the student has chosen to write on the topic: Developing a coding and location system; a case study of St Michael’s Catholic Hospital. 1.2 Research Background In a typical store house, there is the need for pragmatic and strategic considerations to be taken with regards to the development of a coding and location system. These two functions play a very important role as far as stores operations are concerned. 1.2.1 Definition of Coding According to Carter, and Price (1993), coding is a “system developed that can identify and classify the range of items held in stock, quickly, and effectively”¹. On the other hand, Baily (1963) defines coding as a “short description, combining complexity of references with brevity of codeword, thus saving time in processing transactions and saving space in records”². On his part, Westering Gosta (1984) defines coding as “the procedure for allocating symbolic identification marks to different items to simplify their definition and retrieval”³.
1. 2. 3. R.J. Carter and P.M Price; integrated materials management: pitman publishing, 1993, page 92 P.J Baily; purchasing &supply management; Chapman publications, 1963, page 102 Westering Gosta; international procurement: I. T.C publishing, 1984, page 93
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Definition of Location Systems
Wingate et al (1975), defined location system as “the proper arrangement of stock items in the store house to accomplish either; to aid the sale of goods, to allow new sales persons and also customers to learn the location of stock and to obtain the required goods quickly and to facilitate the control of stock”4 In a related development, the rationale of a store house location system is
1. 2. 3. R.J. Carter and P.M Price; integrated materials management: pitman publishing, 1993, page 92 P.J Baily; purchasing &supply management; Chapman publications, 1963, page 102 Westering Gosta; international procurement: I. T.C publishing, 1984, page 93
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Definition of Location Systems
Wingate et al (1975), defined location system as “the proper arrangement of stock items in the store house to accomplish either; to aid the sale of goods, to allow new sales persons and also customers to learn the location of stock and to obtain the required goods quickly and to facilitate the control of stock”4 In a related development, the rationale of a store house location system is
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