IDS450 Discussion 3 Warehouse Management

IDS 450 Warehouse Management Discussion 3

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Warehouse Management

1.Brief history of Warehousing in America

2.Give examples of public, private, contract warehousing

3.List the material related value-adding activities

4.With respect to regulatory issues, who does monitor warehousing labor safety practices in the US? What are the hazardous materials?

5.Give examples of technologies/automation that can be used in warehousing

6. How can warehouse security be achieved/enhanced by focusing on people, facilities and processes?

7.How are cleanness and sanitation relevant to warehousing operations?

8. How does multiclient warehousing mix attributes of public and contract warehouse design?

9.What are the trade-offs involving space, labor, and mechanization?

10.What is WMS?

Transportation  

1.Why is transportation important to a firm’s SC operations?

2. Why it’s important to know about the characteristics of a country’s transportation infrastructure?

3.How do truckload operations differ from less-than-truck load operations?

4.How do containers help facilities intermodal transportation?

5.What are freight forwarders? How do they function? What service they perform?

6.Discuss transportation regulation for logisticians need to understand the relevant transportation regulations of the countries in which they contact business.

7. List several environmental regulations and describe their impact on transportation.

8. Pick 3 modes of transportation, name the federal agency responsible for safety regulation for each of the modes you picked, and provide safety-related role or responsibility for each mode.

9. Why is transportation economic regulation important?