Warehouse design methodology in sectoral logistics management systems

This article is a report on the optimum warehouse design that has different properties cause of the sectoral disparities and optimum warehouse design functions in design methodology. Logistics operations play a vital role in determining a company?s competitiveness, since logistics costs constitute an important part of the overall production costs. The logistic costs that are made inside a warehouse are to a large extent determined during the design phase. Typically, a design is a process that runs from a functional description, through a technical specification, to equipment selection and determination of a layout. In each stage of this process, target performance criteria (costs, throughput, storage capacity, response times) have to be met. In this work, a framework for warehouse design is discussed. In the research, problems that are encountered during the design of a warehouse or a warehouse subsystem are analyzed. Within this study the importance and the need of warehouse management and warehousing function in the logistics processes are emphasized. The captions concerning warehouse characterization, the general draft of warehouse design and the components of a detailed warehouse design based layout (material handling equipment, the systems of shelf etc.) are examined. In addition, improving suggestions and a study related to modeling the warehouse with a warehouse design practice in an existing warehouse that is belong to food and textile companies are presented. Keywords: Logistics, warehousing operations, sectoral logistics systems, optimum food warehouse design, optimum textile warehouse design.