Predmetnik

Lectures: Introduction – importance of warehouse systems in the transport-warehouse logistics function. Material flow – warehouse as a queuing system (“fluid flow model”). Warehouse operations – receiving, process customer orders, order-picking, checking, packing, put away. Warehouse management systems – receiving and shipping, stock locator system, features, market supply. Storage and handling equipment – storage equipment, transporters, sorting equipment etc. Types of forklifts – due to their working principles, drive motors, carrying capacity, bearing strength. Transportation handcarts – classical, autonomous, folding, assembling – special handcarts, inductive guided etc. Transport storage unit – pallets, boxes etc. Designing and planning of packing. Technological procedures of packing: vakuum packing, sterile packing, packing in a modificated atmosphere, active packing. Protection of goods and safety manipulating – at interior transport, at transport on long distance, safety managing with transport devices. Storage strategies. Commissionaire – types, equipment, zones. Design of warehouse systems – storage rack systems, construction of the warehouse, shape optimisation.

Seminar: Seminar (project) work supplement lectures with practical solutions of engineering problems concerning warehouse operations.

Izvajalec: prof. dr. Lerher Tone

Asistent: viš. pred. Marovt Matjaž