<p>KSL Trading Inc is a trading company in the Jönkoping area that distributes</p><p>material for the furniture and interior design industry.</p><p>The purpose of this report is to analyze the existing material flow and</p><p>warehouse layout as well as to identify the issues there are today at KSL’s</p><p>warehouse for board material. When we identified what kind of problems that</p><p>existed we were able to design a new plan for the material flow and storage</p><p>possibilities. The problems we found where:</p><p>• There is no well-organised warehouse layout</p><p>• There are no routines to keep the warehouse clean and in order</p><p>• There is no formed plan how to handle material</p><p>To solve these problems we have used different methods like interviews,</p><p>observations, calculations and literature studies. The information we have</p><p>gathered from these methods have been analyzed and developed into a result</p><p>In the result we have made two time studies on different orders in the existing</p><p>layout. We have presented two proposals on layout improvements on the</p><p>warehouse that improves the handling and flow of the material. Then we</p><p>simulated these orders in one of the two layout proposals to make an estimate</p><p>of time improvements. In packing orders we can show on an estimated</p><p>improvement in time of 45 %</p><p>We have divided the material into eight different families and then performed</p><p>an ABC-analysis on these families. We have also analysed how much material</p><p>of each family that is stored.</p><p>We have designed a new marking label that simplifies the work to maintain the</p><p>materials that are stored well in order and structure.</p><p>Finally we have been able to draw some overall conclusions on how to improve</p><p>the situation for the entire organisation.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:hj-821 |
| Date | January 2007 |
| Creators | Mundt-Petersen, Henrik, Andersson, David, Björklund, Erik |
| Publisher | Jönköping University, JTH, Industrial Engineering and Management, Jönköping University, JTH, Industrial Engineering and Management, Jönköping University, JTH, Industrial Engineering and Management |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, text |
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