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While designing the building certain principles must be become in mind.
1- A stores building holds stock, which is increased by receipts and reduced in quantum by issues. The inward and outward flows are therefore, of primary importance.
2- Quick vehicle turnaround at the receipt store is essential to efficient stores management. So also at the dispatch section. The layout of the stockyard plays an important role in keeping transport moving, since it allows vehicles to maneuver and to queue in an orderly fashion. Bad design of the stockyard can lead to considerable delays.
3- Working area, including goods inward and goods outward, maintenance areas and packing areas should be grouped as closely together as is readably possible while retaining separate flows. This would mean the reduction of costs on providing common areas, e.g. toilets, etc.
4- The office of the stores should be as close to the working areas as possible to facilitate proper supervision and good communication.
5- Office can be on the first floor or on a mezzanine. The ground floor can be reserved exclusively for storage.
6- The height of the building from the floor to the ceiling must be enough to permit maximum floor lading and should be higher than maximum stacking level of the materials being stored and the reach capability of the handling equipment used. The costs of building with height in mind are low compared to the cost of floor space.
7- Main gangway are best placed to run the length of longer buildings giving access to all areas. In buildings leaser length gangways should be breadth wise to economies on storage space.
8- Main gangways must be wide enough for two of the largest vehicles or mechanical equipment likely to pass each other without risk of collision.
9- Proper lighting must be provided so as to illuminate stack faces adequately.
-Doors should be wide and high enough to be well clear of loaded vehicles or equipment like forklifts passing through them.
-Floor thickness and strength must be specified and checked during building construction.
-Fire precautions need to be carefully considered before the building is erected, and fire exists provided. Fire extinguishing systems must match requirement.
-Security arrangements to control access to both buildings and yards will be required and will involve the provision of a perimeter wall or fencing.
The first task in planning is to gather facts (not opinions). Some questions are:
1-Whome does the store serve? Where are they located?
2-What are the items stocked? What are their maximum and minimum quantities their nature (small, big, bulky, heavy, binnable, can be kept in stockyard, kept in crates or on pallet, liquid, hazardous etc) and the total space they are likely to occupy.
3-How are they received / dispatched? How much quantity per day/week? How many road trucks of what sizes per day are involved? How many railway wagons?
4-Handling equipment required?
5- Number of staff – officers, supervisor, workers (of various categories)?
6-How much space is available? (Area, cubic feet?)
7- Requirements of receiving and dispatch sections?
8- What type of material handling equipment is envisaged? (Forklifts, overhead cranes, only manual systems?) Study proposals and evaluate alternatives.
The success of store building design will depend primarily on the facts that have been gathered and analyzed. The problem has to be studied in depth and no fact is small enough to be ignored.
The two basic considerations of a store layout project are:
1- Materials to be stored (or job to be handled).
2- Space available (Three dimensional). Make drawing to scale.
A complete study of space will assist in the computation of shelf heights for pallet racks and pallet width and depth. Look for columns in the building and their widths. Prepare a space chart.
Next, plot a plan of the building complex which will include store building, loading and unloading bays, roads open areas, railway sidings, etc.
Within the store building itself, plan out the actual storage area and the office and administration area. The receipt, storage, Issue and dispatch sections should be segregated. The overall plan of the store complex will enable one to know the exact volume of storage space available and also the possibilities for expansion.
The next step would be to prepare am outside and inside elevation drawing of the building which will include the ceiling and stacking height details, as well as floor load capacities.
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