The warehouse are a vital part of industrial or business concern, public and private undertaking, etc, and it must be designed to suit the particular needs of the organization concern. There is therefore no standard system, which can be universally recommended or applied, but of course of time, certain principle and practices of more or less general applications have been evolved.
The warehouses in most organization is an area in which all kind of materials needed for production, distribution, maintenance, packaging etc, are warehoused, received and issued. The warehouses and warehouse functions are therefore basically concerned with holding of stocks. However as will be evident later, warehouses and warehouse management covers great deal more than just these aspects include the following activities.
• Holding, control and issuing of stocks • Control of all warehouse or warehouses, stockyard and outside storage units • Material handling functions • Quality control activity • Training of warehouse and warehouse staff • Clerical administration of warehouse and warehouses operations • Security of warehouse and warehouses
b) Basic Functions of Warehouse
Modern warehouses or warehouse has a wide variety of functions to perform efficiently. The manner in which the store and warehouse management carries out these tasks will be reflected in the overall efficiency of the organization. The primary objective may be regarded as on of providing service to the operating functions – all other warehouses and warehouse functions are subordinate to this main responsibility although they have they own relative importance.
The functions includes:-
• To supply all materials and related services to ensure continuation of the operations. The flow must be balanced. • To warehouse, control and issue all work in