The five principal activities of material handling

 

Material handling:  is the art and science involving the movement, Handling and storage of materials during different stages of manufacturing.

The handling of materials is essential since its essential to optimize process, reduce costs and risk.

The five principal activities of material handling include the following: -

Planning Principles: all handling activities should be planned be clear with objectives and functional specifications of the proposed methods.

Space utilization principles

Make use of optimum cubic space effective and efficiently use of available space must be made.

Standardization principle.

This involves the use of standardized method of material handling equipment, controls and software must be standardizing within the limits that achieve global performance activities.

Automation principles.

Material handling operations should be automated

material handling operations should be automated where possible in order to improve operational efficiency increase responses, improve consistency and predictability and lower operations.

if we pay attention to how the industry has changed in the last 20 years the number of people involved in each of the stages process is less with new technologies, if it is automated, it gains in reliability efficiency, safety time, standardization and transportation or since there is better coordination.

Environmental Principles

environmental impact and energy consumption must be considered criteria when selecting equipment for handling material

 

 

 

 

k ) The Following are the Objectives that LM May Seek to Achieve

To Reduce Waste of Material

another significant concern of an organisation is to minimize material waste. the materials get wasted because of poor storage. the materials get wasted because of poor or sometimes it gets wasted while moving it from one place to another

To Improve Work Condition.

before the inclusion of technology all movement and storage works were done manually. some labors were responsible for performing these tasks of loading and unloading works done manually. some labors were responsible for performing these tasks loading and unloading work. poor results in frequent accidents on site because of poor working conditions. proper and well through material handling takes care performing the work.

Enhance Distribution

distribution means the delivery of final goods to the retailer and whole sales. a lot of materials gets damage during transportation because of poor packing and storage. it helps in the reduction of damage to the products during shipping

To Optimized Warehouse Capacity

warehouse cost also adds to the price of the final product

warehouse capacity means the ability for storing goods it good to take care of the warehouse layout, floor and also space to optimized warehouse capacity.

Full Equipment Utilization

expensive machinery and equipment s are used for the production process, this equipment’s fail to perform to their maximum capacity cause of poor materials handling.  the performance of these equipment’s depends on the speed at which the materials is supplied and received. there 4material handling help in full utilization of the capacity of the equipment.

Worker’s Safety.

poor materials handling can result in accidents in the factors which are very risky for workers.

improved flow of materials

smooth flow of materials is when materials enter the company in raw material form and the time when its required and exits the organization inform of final goods. the flow of materials gets disturbed when the materials is not available when needed or gets damaged rather than being used for production process.

it lowers the rate of mischappenings in the organization an aresult of which medical expense of the organisation is reduced alterative materials handling reduces manual work which increases the speed of production work

it helps to reduce damage of the goods

Advantages of Computerized Purchasing

1)      it allows procurement professional across the work to communicate information simple and efficient streamlining the global procurement process, reducing item and cost without compromising on the standard and quality.

2)      Reduce Transaction Time

individual business activity can be completed much more quickly                                

3)      Electronic Catalogues The development of e-catalogues has enable organisations to market their products offers electronically. This has been a fantastic marketing tools for seller and buyers. There is price transparency and buyers can compare offers from various e-catalogue venders.

4)      Increase Standardization

with the electronically catalogue, there has been move by some suppliers to offer more standardize offer thus allowing buyers to compare offers.

5)      wider speed supplier bases, because the virtual e-procurement porters web-based, buyers can search supplier worldwide meaning a wider selection of products and services are available to the organisation.

6)      simplified global procurement – with the e-procurement applications it supports, various languages, currencies. international taxation, makes it simple for buyer and supplier to communicate and cooperate.

7)      creation of trading communities

it allows both vertical and horizontal trading communities to develop.