The Purpose of Warehouses

Warehouse is a large building that stores finished goods and transports or receives raw materials. In addition, it is used by manufacturers, importers, exporters, wholesalers, transportation companies and customers. The main purpose of the warehouse is to make maximum use of available storage space. Warehouses existed for hundreds of years, and Europe was the first country to invent warehouses by shipping merchandise to other countries. Most warehouses are built near the shipping port and goods are stored in these warehouses before shipping and trading routes are sent.

Toys "R" Us also faces the problem of insufficient management of personal warehouses. The purpose of the warehouse is to maintain supplier inventory and goods before delivery to each store. Inappropriate warehouse management is attributable to the sending and receiving of inventory to each store. As a result, the company is worried that inventory can not be delivered to all stores in a timely manner. Packing and handling of inventory items in warehouse is slow, delivery of products is delayed and we can not meet customer's needs. If there is a season with high demand or a holiday and the inventory increases compared to the months other than the season, this problem gets worse. In addition, due to the limited space in the warehouse, this problem also increases inventory costs. In addition, the longer the stock is stored in the warehouse, the higher the risk of inventory such as damage or theft.

Warehouse officials should pay attention to 14 elements. The first is to designate the type and purpose of the warehouse, predict and analyze the expected demand, establish the investment policy, classify the inventory level, distinguish and generalize the classification, store the compartment, transport material design, store and classify the system , Channel design space requirements, determination of the number and location of input and output points, determination of number and location of terminals, arrangement of storage, and finally formation of region (Mohsen, 2002)

Geodis manages over 3 million square meters of warehouse. The main purpose of the warehouse management system is to manage the movement and storage of the items under operation and to process related transactions. Direction picking, direction replenishment, and direction picking are some of the important functions of the GEODIS warehouse management system. Basic logic uses the combination of project, location, quantity, measurement unit, and order information to determine inventory location, location selection, and the order in which they are executed. Since the warehouse management solution is integrated with other information systems, it can be automatically integrated with customers and carriers to exchange information. Today, orders are sent directly to the customer system and taken into account by the Geodis warehouse management system. This eliminates the need to re-enter information or errors.