Logistics Planning Practice platform - part specifications and storage container planning

     Manufacturing production logistics planning the whole process, the part is planning the smallest target units, particularly in the automotive industry, each finished vehicles manufactured parts required amount in thousands count. For the large number of parts in an orderly manner, with production operations scheduled to beat, and at the same time meet the needs of production and logistics systems, warehousing, transportation, loading and unloading, it is necessary to design different parts of the storage container.

    The storage container planning affect the efficiency of the parts storage space the size and loading and unloading, but also a direct impact on other programs late in the mode selecion and quantification calculations. Scientific and rational planning for the storage container to reduce inventory costs, improve production efficiency of logistics is essential. Logistics planning practice platform brings together a large number of actual cases, provide detailed case for university teaching logistics planning, supporting data and methodology guidelines, including a large number of different cases of different scenarios and content of data storage container planning.

    Storage containers in the planning process, logistics and logistics modulus size standard is the basis for planning by the container parts. The more industrialization in developed countries or regions, due to the requirements of industrial production for the whole society to low-cost and efficient logistics services, logistics as the more standard specifications, the resulting economic externalities is higher.

    Standardized logistics modulus and dimensional standards can bring between elements within the logistics system, between different logistics systems, and logistics system with other systems and cost-efficient logistics processes. Therefore, this article used in Germany and logistics modulus size standard, case-based platform will be part specifications and storage container planning combing the whole logic is as follows:

   (1) classification of parts to be first. Generally based on-line requirements and specifications of the parts are divided into parts: no stock straight work every bit parts, the smaller parts, differences in personality assembly member, other standard parts.

   (2) Second, to confirm the seleced criteria and reference standards, selec storage container, according to German standards, the automotive industry logistics planning is generally used in six standard sizes, from small to large volume turnover box, if the part size larger than the largest turnover boxes, or weight is not suitable for loading plastic totes, customizable uniform size wooden or metal box. Some special parts with a proprietary self loading containers.

   (3) followed by the appropriate box on the parts loading calculations. General parts assume a rectangular box placed in the number of calculations can be loaded, can be bent by folding parts bent into a rectangular folded into the calculation assumes that after the loadable number of spare parts warehousing analogy packaging capacity and volume calculations can be loaded totes number. However, in the calculations should be noted: Since there are six ways to store parts and placed in a box assumed to be rectangular or custom totes box when, therefore need to calculate the number of different can be loaded in each storage methods, and finally take the maximum loading scheme.

   (4) then the appropriate box parts loading verification, such as: taking into account the common crates, plastic pallets material, if the parts loaded container load exceeds the requirements, the need to cut the number of parts is loaded. If the bendable folding parts verified by the manufacturer is not suitable for the form of a curved fold lines, loading bins will be placed properly.

   (5) After the appropriate box for non-statistical parts, and customize exclusive container. based on the customized container cost considerations, if the part can be placed through a certain way into the shelves trays, wooden or metal box custom among the rectangular box should be mounted above the container.

   Otherwise, we should choose low-cost removable reorganization or customized material. Because non-container parts suitable container manufacturing cost is much higher than the box-type container and place result in increased stacking storage area stored, also caused the loss of the opportunity cost of land.

   (6) Finally, the parts can be loaded with containers loaded corresponds to the number of ways to load statistics. Except in special parts, the same parts can have several containers, corresponding to different containers, to obtain the corresponding number of loading and loading mode.

    Parts obtained by the above calculation and statistics will be - a form corresponding to storage containers, storage containers and parts which meet the "one-to-multiple mapping" relationship, warehousing and container loading and loading a manner consistent with the number of "one-on-one mapping" relationship. And this also forms the basis for post-storage function area, equipment investment and other personnel planning.

   Six Steps part specifications and storage container planning logic, expressed the complete list of specifications from part to part - corresponding to the storage container form the whole process. However, due to part specifications and storage container manufacturing planning is the foundation of the entire production logistics planning, and the planning of the entire logistics system is a system engineering closely connected between a sub-steps. Therefore, when the container storage planning must consider planning for gross fixed investment, for loading and unloading systems, logistics systems for the transformation of the multiple effects of the degree of difficulty and weigh carefully planned.