1. TIER-1 DISTRIBUTION CENTER
INTRODUCTION :
Distribution centers are more dynamic in nature, where it is
important to have the “required quantity of the right product in the
right place at the right time.” This “rule” highlights the flexibility of
distribution centers. DCs (distribution centers) hold product for a
shorter amount of time because of their critical nature of fulfillng
customer orders quickly.
Contrary to warehouses where the main focus is to efficiently store
products, DCs are crucial to oder fulfillment, cross docking,
packaging, last mile customization, etc.
2. • The available sites or property are supposed to be located at outskirts or very close to tier-1 cities depending upon the rental factors. Which should be helpfull for easy transportation .
• Rent Rates & Taxes.
• Workforce Availability, Labor Skills & Costs.
• Roads, Highways & Traffic Flow. Proximity to Airport, Railway Stations & Ports.
• Building Availability & Utility Costs.
• Sites with either rectangular or square are preferable.
• In extreme cases, site with irregular shapes are acceptable.
• Available sites should be located near to main roads.
• Entry gate should be near to the main road of the Distrubution center
• Proposed road width is enoug to travell both entry and exit vehicles at a time
• security checking point should be near to the entry gate
Standard criteria for the best possible warehouse location.
3. Efficient Design of Warehouses:
Warehouse design should focus on making the available space more functional and
efficient, while providing a safe and comfortable environment for the workers to
increase productivity and control operating cost. Warehouse also have to maintain
corporate image and provide for worker satisfaction. Building aesthetically, having
good landscaping, worker safety and comfort is an important thing to be
considered in competitive real estate markets.
Some of the most important design considerations in Warehouse are as follows:
1.Storage Space inside Warehouse
2.Office Space in Mezzanine or built separately
3.Loading Docks or Bays for loading & unloading with service roads
4.Parking spaces & other infrastructure for operations
5.Toilets, Dining & other Workers facilities
4. REQUIREMENT FOR CONSTRUCTION OF
DISTRUBUTION CENTER
• google map with north direction
• Area discription
• structural design
• Flooring design
• docking platform Design
• finishing floor level
• clear height at both center and corner.
• clear setbacks for fire vehicle movment
• roofing design/ventilation design
• canopy design
• utility/washroom designs(dry garbage,wet
garbage,carton box)
• Fire safety provision
• Docking shutter design
• electrial requirements for transformer yard/dg
yard
• provision of scissor lift
• Truck Yard/docking area
• Employee and Visitor Parking space
• security room
• dormetry With cafeteria block
• garden area
• providing of sunken flooring
• providing of steps at platform
• provision of staircase
• provision of landscaping
• provision of sump tank
5. 1. GOOGLE MAP. (Street view)
Google map helps to understand the area in which the property lies and helps us to analyse the parking area , type of road (helps us to know the traffic concerns) and the property adjacent to BB property ( which helps us to know the ventilation for placing cold racks). which should indicate distance from near public transport .
Mysore airport – 20.5 Km
Mysore bus stand – 10.9 KM
Mysore railway station-9.1 KM
Existing DC- KM
6. • Plot area -The complete area that is under your ownership or between the fencing is called
the Plot Area.
Plot area = length (ft) x width (ft)
• Built-up area -The built-up area of a premise is measured from the external perimeter wall
surfaces. It is the carpet area plus the wall thickness along with other unusable areas within
the property.
Built-up area = carpet area + area covered by walls
• Carpet area - Carpet area of a property includes the portion enclosed within the interior
walls. Carpet area = area within the interior walls
As per the Bigbasket requirement.
PLOT AREA OF THE WAREHOUSE – Minimum – 1,50,000 Sq. ft
Maximum – 3,38,000 Sq. ft
CARPET AREA OF THE WAREHOUSE – Minimum – 85, 000 Sq. ft
Maximum – 2,00,000 Sq. ft
Area discription
7. Structural design:-is aimed to design a structure that fulfills its intended purpose during its intended life span and be adequately safe in terms of strength, stability, and structural integrity, serviceability in terms of stiffness, durability, etc., and be economically viable, aesthetically pleasing, and environment
• ROOF FRAMING PLAN
• ROOF SHEETING PLAN
• BASE PLATE PLAN
• MEZZANINE FLOOR LAYOUT
• SIDEWALL SHEETING LAYOUT
• SIDEWALL FRAMING LAYOUT
• COLUMN DESIGN
• VENTILATION DESIGN
• SECTIONAL VIEWS
8. Warehouse receiving is the first step of the ecommerce fulfillment process and refers to the process of delivering, unloading, and storing ecommerce inventory in a warehouse or fulfillment center.
Minimum width of receiving platform is 20 ft
Dispatching goods represents the last contact between the product and the warehouse. It is during this process that final quality & document checks should be completed. This prevents errors and ensures that customers receive what they have ordered in the correct quantities, with all procedures being followed correctly
Minimum width of dispatch platform is 10 ft
Docking platform Design
9. Finished floor level – it is a vertical difference between the ground level
and warehouse floor level
• For receiving or unloading vehile :- the ffl between ground
level and receiving floor level is 3’6”
• For dispatch or loading vehile:-the ffl between ground level
and receiving floor level is 2’2”
• At dispatch platform gl is to be rised by 1’4” to match ffl
10. Flooring Design:
Warehouse and storage facilities require flooring that can meet the demands dictated by the many ongoing activities that take place within them. On any given day, a busy warehouse is likely to have forklift or pallet truck traffic carrying heavy loads. Very often, pallets and boxes are dragged across the floor and hence it has to withstand those wear and tear.
Performance Floors for Warehouses: A well designed and constructed floor will increase productivity, reduce maintenance of the building and increase the life of the equipment using the floor. The floor should take the imposed loads, be flat, long-lasting and aesthetically pleasing. We should consider the construction methods, program, cost and any value engineering they can bring an economically designed and built to meet the performance requirements.
13. WAREHOUSE INTERNAL RACK LAYOUT
A warehouse layout is the planned design of a
warehouse to streamline overall operations. The
right layout should help to improve the flow of
production and distribution. Overseeing an entire
warehouse workflow is extremely tedious.
A well-executed and optimized warehouse layout
design can provide easy access to stored goods,
minimize travel time, and improve order fulfillment
rates. Additionally, it is vital to consider all the
requirements according to your business needs
during the planning phase itself.
14. The following areas must be perfectly defined when designing a layout:
A. Loading and unloading areas
B. Receving staging area
C. Storage area
D. Picking area
E. Dispatch area
15. A. Loading and unloading areas
Loading and unloading areas (PLATFORMS)
Loading and unloading areas, which are normally located outside the warehouse or incorporated into it, are those that trucks and vehicles transporting and distributing goods have direct access to.
In a well-organised warehouse, it is useful to separate these activities from the rest of the installation, allowing sufficient space for loading and unloading. This area can be integrated into the warehouse or be independent.
16. B. Receving staging area
The Recriving staging area must be located as independently as possible from the rest of the warehouse, so that it can be used not just for receiving goods, but also for quality-control and sorting.
Reception area.
Once it has been ensured that the characteristics and quality of the delivery received matches those of the products ordered, the next stage is to determine where to position the load within the warehouse.
Depending on the type of warehouse, it may or may not be necessary to transform the units received. If this is necessary, a suitable area must be established for this function. For example, it may be necessary to split the pallets that have arrived into smaller units, remove parts that are strapped together, etc.
Given the impact that accurate checking and, above all, correct positioning, can have on the future performance of the warehouse, this area must be as large and as separate as possible.
Currently, almost all products handled in a warehouse come with bar codes that can be read using a scanner. Therefore, once the warehouse’s central computer has identified the units, it can in turn immediately generate the position label for the goods. This label can subsequently be read by a forklift operator or by the scanners of the warehouse’s automated system so that, in both of these cases, they can be positioned in the correct location.
17. C. Storage area or stacking area
A storage area is, an area used only to store goods.
Goods can be stored in a number of different ways:
1.Directly on the ground
2.Directly on the ground but stacked or in blocks.
3. racking units.
4. multitire racks.
multitire racks.
racking units
multitire racks.
multitire racks.
Directly on the ground
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19. D. Picking area/Picked crates staging area
Areas for preparing orders can be integrated into storage areas, as is the case when picking from rack units. They can also be separate from storage areas, creating specific picking areas, generally with automated or semi-automated systems.
E. Dispatch area
These areas are used for packing orders prepared in the previously described areas. Even if this packing operation is unnecessary, this area also can be used for goods that have to be dispatched and loaded into the delivery or distribution vehicles.
To ensure the correct speed of movement within the warehouse, these spaces must be designed in a specific location and differentiated from the rest of the installation.
If separate reception and dispatch areas have been created, these must also have separate loading and unloading areas. If, however, the reception and dispatch are close to each other, a single loading and unloading space can be created. However, this option makes it more difficult to control the flow of goods and the movement of vehicles.
21. RACK PROFILES
• A warehouse racking system is a storage solution
designed to stack materials in horizontal rows with
multiple levels. These systems can help you manage and
better utilize your warehouse space while organizing
cargo to streamline operations.
• Various types of racks used in DC which is depending
upon the clear height height of warehouse .
• Racks are diffencriated into three types
• HD Racks
• MD Racks
• Slotted anle racks
22. aisle width
• Also is known as “wide aisles,”
conventional aisles are
generally between 12 and 13
feet wide. They are the most
frequently used in warehouses
because they can accommodate
a variety of equipment.
• Aisle width for HD Rracks
minimum is 10 ft max is 13 ft
• Aisle width for MD Rracks
minimum is 9 ft max is 10 ft
• Aisle width for SA Rracks
minimum is 6.5 ft max is 8 ft
9 FT
7 FT
11 FT
23. FLOW
• Flows are the
movements of the
units as they enter
the warehouse,
move around it,
and finally exit.
24. Office space
• The office portion varies
according to the space, but is
typically a separate room
placed at the corners of the
unit or on the upper level. If
you are planning to
incorporate a showroom
within your space, be mindful
of the store front appearance
26. Cold storage area/cold room
area
• A cold storage warehouse aims to
maintain the produce (usually food) at
an optimum temperature, to stop it
spoiling and to extend its life. By
contrast, a freezer warehouse must
keep the product at a constant
temperature to ensure there is no risk
of damage or alteration to its integrity
• Cold storage area can be classified
into 3 stages
• ante room(20°c) ,+5°c coldroom,-25°c
cold room
• external fecilites of the coldrooms are
plate freezers and freezers .
• cold room can contain saparate
receiving shutters
27. mezzanine area
• Warehouse
mezzanine refers
to an elevated
section of flooring
or platform that's
installed between
the floor and the
ceiling to serve
several purposes
in some
28. stacker mechain/charging points
• A stacker is a large
machine used in bulk
material handling. Its
function is to pile bulk
material such as
limestone, ores and
cereals on to a
stockpile. A reclaimer
can be used to recover
