ABSTRACT
Introduction Warehouse components are arranged to provide cost-effective and efficient vendor SKU and customer-order flows. These components are 1) the warehouse facility; 2) the material handling equipment layout; 3) warehouse internal operations or activities (with management staff and employees); 4) vendor SKU and customer-order flows for small items, master cartons, or pallets; 5) company informational technology (IT), host, WMS, and warehouse computer systems, (for communications between company departments as well as between the company and vendors and customers); and (6) inventory control, basic warehouse management program, or WMS.
