The document discusses stores, warehouses, and godowns. It defines each term and describes their purposes and historical development. Stores are places for storing goods for future use and come in types like raw materials, work in progress, and finished goods. Warehouses developed to store harvested foods and other commodities for later consumption. Government agencies in India like FCI, CWC, and SWC operate warehouses to store food grains and other products. A godown is specifically a type of warehouse found in Southern and Eastern Asia.

1. Stores ,Warehouse and
Godown
Pramod Wadikar

2. STORES
Date: 13th century
: something that is stored or kept for
future use
plural : articles (as of food) accumulated
for some specific object and drawn
upon as needed :
Stock : something that is accumulated
Source:Merriam-Webster Dictionary

3. TYPES
 Raw Material Store
 Work In Progress
 Finished Goods Stores

4. Materials Management
 Stores is one of the functions of
Materials Management.
 Materials Management itself is a part of
Logistics and Supply Chain
Management.

5. Importance
 Importance of Stores function has
increased tremendously in recent years
due to factors including:
 Globalization
 Competition
 Technology

6. Importance
 Efficient stores management is essential
as it affect:
 Cost
 Profits
 Customer Satisfaction

7. Ware-house
 Date: 14th century
 : a structure or room for the storage of
merchandise or commodities
 Source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary

8. Ware-house
 the means of holding and protecting
commodities for later use.
 Foodstuffs were probably the first
goods to be stored, being put aside
during months of harvest for use in
winter. To preserve it from rotting, food
was treated in a variety of ways—
e.g., dried, pickled, or sealed in water-
and air-tight containers and placed in
cool, dark cellars for storage.

9. Government Warehouses

There are three main agencies in the
public sector which are engaged in
building large scale
storage/warehousing capacity.
 They are: the Food Corporation of India
(FCI),
 Central Warehousing Corporation
(CWC), and
 State Warehousing Corporation (SWC).

10. Government Warehouses
 FCI provides storage capacity for food grains.
It has its own go downs and it also hires
storage capacity from other sources such as
CWC, SWC's, State Governments and private
parties.
Year No of Capacity in
Warehouses million Tonnes
1961-62 40 Less than 0.1
1988-89 32 million tonnes

11. WAREHOUSING INFRASTRUCTURE
(CAPACITY IN MILLION TONNNES A ON 01-07-2005)
DISCRIPTION CWC SWC TOTAL
TOTAL NO. OF 498 1599 2097
WAREHOUSE
CAPACITY 10.42 14.55 24.97
CAPACITY 10.42 14.55 24.97
1MT=6Sq.FT

12. Government Warehouses
 CWC is operating 492 Warehouses
across the country with a storage
capacity of 10.72 million tonnes
providing warehousing services for a
wide range of products ranging from
agricultural produce to sophisticated
industrial products.

13. Ware-house
 Commerce created another major need
for storage facilities. The basic goals in
commercial storage are protection from
weather and from destructive animals.
 Source: www.britannica.com

14. Godown
 : go·down
 from Malay gudang
 Date: 1552
 : a warehouse in a country of southern
or eastern Asia
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