Reflection from ALB trip by Winnie

To itemize the individual reflection on field trip to ALB (Army Logistics Base), the type of warehousing floor layout at ALB is Through-flow. Through-flow occurs when the loading bay facilities for outbound and shipping are separated at opposite end of a warehouse building. ALB uses the Through-flow to reduce the confusion between goods in and goods out and to let all goods travel the full length of the warehouse building. The other reason for using Through-flow is the goods inward vehicles and dispatch vehicles are very different in platform height and nature of unit load. It necessitates to control for easy and flexible operations and for future building expansion. The height of the each floor of ALB building is thirty meter height that is the same height of ten stories. The powered mobile racking system is the main storage system of ALB and stores homogeneous products. The layout consists of a number of mobile sections working between fixed and racks. Mobile racking provides good space utilisation, random access to every pallet and suitable for stock where the number of line items is high. Installing cost for the system is expensive although it can help to reduce building cost and consequent on the better space utilisation.
We saw the vertical carousel system at medical supplies. In the vertical carousel system is a series of shelves suspended between two continuous chains are driven through supporting sprockets to move the trays up or down as necessary. The carousels can be built to use the available building height. Spared parts are the MHEs used at the inbound and outbound of ALB. At ALB, the laser guided vehicles are used in the distribution centre.