Store-keeping,Warehousing

Store-keeping (Warehousing):

To make materials available when required and to avoid stoppage of work, it becomes necessary to maintain adequate stocks of a large number of items. It involves a considerable amount of planning to decide the items to be stocked, the locations where these stocks are to be maintained, such as warehouses (stores depots), stacking arrangements and handling equipments etc. to be provided. The procedure for receipt, inspection, issue and accountal of materials and so on have also to be in place. Proper methods of stocking and “preservation techniques” are to be thought of. In manufacturing organizations arrangements of warehousing are to be made not only for raw materials, spares and consumables but for finished products and partly processed materials as well.