Led by Frank & Lillian Gilbreth Simulacrum
About this course
The fourth course in the Graduate Diploma. Warehousing, Storage and Fulfilment is the domain of physical operations — the spaces in which inventory is stored, handled, and dispatched.
Your host is the Frank & Lillian Gilbreth Simulacrum. The Gilbreths developed motion study and the therblig — the seventeen elemental motions from which all physical work is composed. Their question — "what is the motion architecture here?" — is the organising question of warehouse design.
Led by Frank & Lillian Gilbreth Simulacrum
The question
What is this warehouse for, and what strategic form should it take? You will study the three primary warehouse roles (storage, consolidation, break-bulk), the private/public/contract choice against cost, control and flexibility, core operational processes in sequence, the throughput-utilisation-unit cost relationship, and packaging and unit loads.
Outcome
You can evaluate warehouse role, make the private/public/contract choice, and explain the cost structure of warehousing operations.
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Led by Frank & Lillian Gilbreth Simulacrum
The question
Which storage and handling system is appropriate for this product, throughput, and building? You will study palletised storage systems (selective, double-deep, mobile, live, AS/RS) compared by density, selectivity, cost and throughput, and non-palletised systems — small-item storage, conveyors, sortation, AGVs — with equipment selection criteria.
Outcome
You can select and evaluate storage and handling systems — comparing palletised options across density/selectivity/cost and applying equipment selection criteria to non-palletised contexts.
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Led by Frank & Lillian Gilbreth Simulacrum
The question
How is order picking designed for efficiency, and how is a warehouse designed from scratch? You will study picking strategies (picker-to-goods, goods-to-picker, zone, batch, wave), picking equipment, ABC velocity slotting, cross-docking, receiving and dispatch processes, and the warehouse design procedure.
Outcome
You can design an order picking operation using ABC velocity slotting, explain cross-docking and its conditions, and describe the warehouse design procedure.
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