Monday, May 16, 2011

ERP Functions: Supply Chain Management 3

On the Journey of Supply Chain Management (SCM) we have went through Purchase functions and entered into Stores. In the last blog have seen types of materials requirement in Industries and how the stores manages to receives those material.


In this blog we shall see how store maintains the received material and manages to provide the material resources to all the departments across the industries.


First lets see how the materials are kept in the Stores:
It must be understood that there will be more than 100 types of different materials present in an Industry. Identification, Classification and counting of material are main criterion in storing materials.  There will be some materials requires special type storage. Some bulk materials can not be stored in confined spaces. Some items are regularly required which are to kept in easy approaching locations. Some of the chemically sensitive materials can not be stored together. 

Taking all the above points Materials are suitably placed in Racks, Shelves, Godowns, Tanks, Open Yard and many advanced storing systems. Some of the materials which are continuously consumed like Fuel Oils, Sand, Water, Coolants etc are kept such that it is directly consumed to the departments. Consumption of these kind of materials is noted down through some meters etc.

Proper storage of material is most important in order to manage the material stock, procurement and supply of the material to respective departments. Hence it must be properly planned.

Next week we shall see the procedures involved in material receive from suppliers, documents involved and other stuffs.

Keep watching..

1 comment:

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