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3. OBJECTIVES To know the concept of warehousing. To know the different functions associated with warehousing. To identify the different types of warehousing.

4. A warehouse is a commercial building for storage of goods. Warehouses are used by manufacturers, importers, exporters, wholesalers, transport businesses, customs, etc. They are usually large plain buildings in industrial areas of cities, towns and villages. They usually have loading docks to load and unload goods from trucks. Sometimes warehouses are designed for the loading and unloading of goods directly from railways, airports, or seaports. They often have cranes and forklifts for moving goods, which are usually placed on ISO standard pallets loaded into pallet racks. Stored goods can include any raw materials, packing materials, spare parts, components, or finished goods associated with agriculture, manufacturing and production. In Indian English a warehouse may be referred to as a godown. Historically warehouses were a dominant part of the urban landscape from the start of the Industrial Revolution through the 19th century and into the twentieth century. Warehouse allow transport optimization along the supply chain, and allow companies to work with an optimal inventory (economic order quantity) regarding service quality. Warehouses can also be used to store the unloaded goods from the vessel. In industries whose goods require a period of maturation between production and retail, such as viniculture and cheesemaking, warehouses can be used to store the goods in large quantities.

5. WAREHOUSING Warehousing concerned with the establishment, maintenance and management of warehouses for the storage of goods. It removes the hindrance of time. Storage enables goods to be made available to the customers whenever and wherever it is demanded.

6. Warehousing as the Performance of administrative and physical functions associated with storage of goods and materials. These functions include receipt, identification, inspection, verification, putting away, retrieval for issue, etc.

7. Consolidation. Break In Bulk. Storage Of Goods. Value Added Services. Price stabilization. Financing.

8. FUNCTIONS OF WAREHOUSING Consolidation: Warehouses receive and consolidates goods from different production plants. Break in bulk: They divided the bulk quality of good received from the production plants into smaller quantities. Storage of goods: They store seasonal goods or material

9. FUNCTIONS OF WAREHOUSING Value added service: They provided various value added service like grading, packing, labeling, etc. Price stabilisation : By adjusting the supply of goods with the demand situation, warehousing performs the function of stabilizing price.

10. FUNCTIONS OF WAREHOUSING Financing: warehousing owners advance money to the owners on security of goods and future supply of goods on credit terms.

11. TYPES OF WAREHOUSES Private warehouses Co-operative warehouses Government warehouses Public warehouses Bounded warehouses Packing warehouses Overseas warehouses Canal warehouses

12. TYPES OF WAREHOUSES Private warehouses: Owned by large business firm or wholesalers. Co-operative warehouses: Owned by co-operative undertaking Government warehouses: Owned by government or government agencies Public warehouses: owned by some agencies and provide space against the payment of some fees. It is also known as duty paid warehouses.

13. TYPES OF WAREHOUSES Bounded warehouses: These warehouses are used to keep importage goods before the payment of import duties. They are owned by dock authorities or by the private parties They are under the supervision and control of customs authorities. Packing warehouses: The main purpose of packing warehouses was the picking, checking, labeling and packing of goods for export.

14. TYPES OF WAREHOUSES Overseas warehouses: These catered for the overseas trade. They became the meeting places for overseas wholesale buyers where printed and plain could be discussed and ordered. Canal warehouses: This type warehouses derived from coastal predecessors. Canal warehouses were transshipment warehouses holding goods until they could be shipped out to their next recipients.

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