The document discusses various types of warehouses, including public, private, cooperative, and institutional warehouses, detailing their functions and advantages. Public warehouses are licensed and provide storage and marketing services, while private warehouses are owned by manufacturers for their own storage needs, offering better control and flexibility. The document emphasizes how warehouses facilitate material storage, handling, and transportation, playing a crucial role in supply chain management.

1. Warehousing and
distribution centers

2. Warehousing?
• Its is a place where goods are stored for future use.
• Or
• An arrangement by which goods are stored when they are not
immediately needed and are kept in such a manner to protect
from damage.

3. Warehousing functions
• Material storage function
• Material handling function
• Information handling function

4. Types of warehouses
•On the basis of ownership
• Public and private warehouse
• Co-oprative and institutional warehouse.
•On the basic of Operations
• Plant and base
• Distribution center warehouses
• On the basis of service
• Bounded ,cold storage, special commodity , general
merchandise warehouses..

5. Types of warehouses
•Public warehouses –
• Licensed by gvmt
• Used by small firms and large firms
• Provides storage facilities to the general public for a certain
charge.
• A public warehouse is also known as duty-paid warehouse.
• Public warehouses are very important in the marketing of
agricultural products
• Public warehouses are generally located near the junctions of
railways, highways and waterways.

6. Advantages of public
warehouses
• Storage services provide opportunity to expand - Outsourcing
solves this problem. A popular product could be produced in
full force and stored in public warehousing. Your supply can
now meet the demand of your customers.
• Public warehouses not only store the goods but also give the
facilities of transport and cleaning of goods
• It provide marketing facilities such as sorting and packaging
• It also provide the facility of financing
• Public warehouses are generally established at some central
place where the manufacture other person can stocks easily

7. Private warehouse
Owned big manufacturers and merchants to fulfill their own
storage needs.
• A big manufacturer or wholesaler may have a network of his
own warehouses in different parts of the country.

8. Advantages of Private
• Better control over movement and storage
• designing is done according to suitability
of owner
• Greater flexibility with material handling
needs.

9. Co-operative warehouse
• facilities at most economical rates to
members .
• Owned managed and controlled - co-
operative societies

10. Institutional warehouses
• Established their warehouses because of their activites. Food
corporation of india, bank
1- Govermnt warehouse – operated by state and central
government .