Dissertation of 8500 words on warehouse layout and material handling system
Research Topic:
In the XYZ warehouse operation environment, it have been challenging when comes to order picking and put-away. The huge warehouse is made up of several storage rooms and each storage rooms are located some distance away from the receiving and issuing processing area. It was noticed that during warehouse operation, warehouse personnel will required to travel a distance multiple times in the similar route in a day to enable to complete the order fulfillment and put-away operation.
Furthermore, these individual rooms have its own set of storage racking design as some of the room are having high ceiling of 60m in height and other is only a height of 10m. With these different layout design in the warehouse storage rooms, there are also uses of different material handling equipment (MHE) during the operation. As a security requirement, warehouse personnel have to remember to draw the specific MHE operating key from the processing office before start performing its operation which these have cases that warehouse personnel have to return back to office to draw other set of MHE key due to wrong MHE key was drawn of require to use other type of MHE for its operation.
In view of the problem situation mentioned above, the author will review the current warehouse layout design and the use of MHE to improve the order fulfillment and put-away operation efficiency in XYZÂ after joining the firm for 2 years. While the firm has just started to implement Lean Production System (LPS) recently therefore, this will enable the author have better driver to push for new implementation to the Management if there is any cost related factors.
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However due to limitation in time and resource constraint, author will focus the research study on the warehouse layout design and the use of MHE to increase the operation efficiency. Therefore, the literature review explored in chapter one will focus on minimizing the waste in operation travelling time in the warehouse. Warehouse layout design and use of MHE is one of the key topic, the author understand the use of academic research will assist in identifying gap while adopting the best practices to enhance the gaps of current XYZ problems.
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Case Study:
XYZ is a manufacturing pharmaceutical firm in XXXÂ that currently producing 4 kind of drug substances. XYZ coordinate and understand its market demand output requirement with the supply chain functional group was located in U.S.A while supplying finished bulk drug substance to in Basel and Vacaville for repackaging before it was send to commercial market use
In XYZ, all raw material and finished bulk drug substance were stored in its warehouse which is about 5000m2 and its run by 14 personnel in the warehouse functional group. Although XYZ have huge storage space available in its warehouse however, this huge warehouse was made up of 7 storage rooms. There were 2 ambient storage room, hazardous room, 2 to 8 degree C cold-room, -20 degree C freezer room, -40 degree C freezer room and -80 degree C freezer room.
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It was identified that there are lot of travelling movement of the warehouse personnel and material within the warehouse due to the current warehouse layout design and the use of MHE. The author aims is to minimize the waste in travelling time during the operation processes while improving the warehouse productivity as the optimal goals.
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Chapter 1: Introduction (1000 words)
Introduction
Introduction to topic area
Rationale for research topic
Aims and objectives
Outline of chapters
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Chapter 2: Literature Review (2000 Â to 2500 words)
Chapter 3: Methodology (2000 Â to 2500 words)
Introduction
Research purpose
Research philosophy
Research approach (using interview survey of 20 question)
Research strategy
Research credibility
Ethical considerations
Data analysis
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Chapter 4: Findings and Analysis (2000 to 2500 words)
Introduction
How it apply to XYZ?
How it is implement in XYZ?
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Chapter 5: Conclusions (1000 words)
Introduction
Implication of findings
Aims and objectives revisited
Limitations
Future research
Research contribution
