Track: Operations Management

Abstract

In today’s competitive market environment, the pressure is on to companies or organizations to find new ways to add value and to deliver goods to customers grow even stronger. The growing demand for companies to compete with its goods globally in terms of costs, proper quality materials and other services has had an increase to the desire to come up with innovative or effective warehousing techniques. Warehousing has become the critical function with the rise of mass production systems, warehouse is where goods are stored, and it is a distribution center for raw and finished goods. Therefore, warehousing and distributions center have similar functions, as goods are stored. They both perform critical functions of storage and movements of products. Warehouse is the core function in any organization, whereby organizations can supply a customized or structured resources/services for their consumers in order to have advantage over their competitors. This means that an organization that can receive, store, do cycle counts, stock takes, dispatch, rename racks correctly at the right location, use scanners at a faster rate and get a working culture in order might have an advantage over their rivals. However, there are critical factors, and should they not be addressed or managed correctly they might results in a very serious impact in competitive markets. Although a number of studies have been conducted in the past two decades to address these issues there is still gab in the current literature review, therefore the aim of this paper is to theoretically assess warehouse performance in manufacturing industry. The results of critical analysis of the current literature clearly demonstrate that there are flaws in the current body language related to warehouse performance.