by Factors influencing warehousing four major factors have been identified that influence the nature and importance of warehousing:
Time: Is one of the most important ingredients in effective warehousing. Therefore, the best warehouse operations are those designed to reduce every aspect of order cycle time.
Quality: Is just as important as punctuality and users of warehouse services now expect performance that approaches perfection.
The emphasis in using warehouses is to improve asset productivity. Three critical functions are to reduce total costs, reuse and recycle.
To be in tandem with expectations of the customers’ warehouse managers must develop a new kind of workforce and requirements for both management and labor will change significantly.
