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Thursday, October 7, 2010

Know About Warehouse

Man needs different types of goods to survive in his day-to-day life. So, some of these goods are brought in bulk and we will store them. Exactly in the same way, the businessmen also needs different types of goods for running his business. All the goods will not be available all the time to sell. So, they store some of them, for future needs.

If we take the case of the agricultural goods, mostly all the products which are obtained will be seasonal and in some cases, they will be produced through out the year. So, one has to store them for the future purposes.


Thus the need of storage arises. The storage place is the place where we can store both the products and the raw materials. The storage of the goods should be done in a very effective way. If the storage is done in a large scale and if it is done in a structural way then it is called as warehousing. The storage place of the goods, is called as the warehouse.


Warehousing involves the activities of storing the goods systematically, in an orderly manner and it makes the goods available when they are needed.


Warehousing is an important part of the business. It is used for reducing the gap between the production and the consumption of goods.


Generally in a more better manner, warehouse is defined as the building for storing goods. There are a wide variety of uses of warehouses in various departments. Some of the places where warehouses are used are in the places of manufacturing, importing, exporting and wholesaling. They have the loading docks for loading and unloading the goods.

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