Subject 'Material Handling'

Year:   2013/2014    2014/2015    2015/2016    2016/2017    2017/2018    

Development of warehousing and warehouses. Warehousing functions. Warehouse types. Warehousing resource main components – space, equipment and staff. Warehouse operations. Warehouse management system. Operations organizing in warehouse. Monitoring and measurement of warehouse operations. Monitoring and measurement of material flows. Benchmarking in warehousing. Accounting in warehouse. Risks in warehouse., Warehouse planning. Packages and packing materials. Pallets and containers.

To give students necessary knowledge about warehouse operations arrangement, workflow organizing principles, different packages and packing materials.

The student knows
• warehouse operations
• storage methods and systems
• ways and possibilities of monitoring and measuring warehouse operations
• warehouse management principles and warehouse manager’s job tasks
• packing materials and types of packages

The student is able to
• compose and plan warehouse layout
• plan warehouse technologies, equipment and personnel by using initial information.

Lectures, interactive seminars.

Assessment is based on the following partial results:
• test in interactive e-learning environment – 50%
• solving of tasks at the examination – 20%
• initial task of warehouse planning – 30%

Minimum positive grade - "satisfying" (2).

2014: TL  

2013: TL