On 24th November 2008 the LOM students had to go to Army Logistics Base (ALB) in order to obverse the real life warehouse processes and distribution industry, to know the different application of the different types of material handling equipment and storage system and to learn how the IT technology is used to enhance the logistics operations performances and production.
First of all, according to the structure of the building, the type of flow that the ALB used is through flow. The building has 30 meter and it is 10 stories tall. The storage system that the ALB use are Bin ASRS for the small items, Pellets ASRS and APIR.
The warehouse use power mobile racking system at the main storage area. The product that are used to store in power mobile racking are the products that do not have high through put level. The purpose of using mobile racking system is to reduce the space utilization of the warehouse. Moreover they use vertical carousel system at medical storage area. At that area there is air conditional to provide the environment that will stretch the life of the products.
The MHEs used at the inbound of ALB are forklift, very narrow aside machine and for outbound they use laser guided vehicle. The type of delivery trucks that are used at ALB are 10 foot container truck.
This educational field trip gives me a lot of knowledge about the warehousing and how they store the products. Moreover, I have seen a lot of IT products that are use in material handling. So, I believe that this will help me to adjust with the environment of warehousing industry quickly when I start working because I have learned the real life of warehousing industry through this trip.
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