WAREHOUSE SPACE UTILIZATION OF THE

UTI WORLDWIDE WAREHOUSE

SUBMITTED UNDER PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF MINI PROJECT IN

WAREHOUSE SPACE UTILIZATION FOR UTi WORLWIDE

BY

PRAVIN RAJ M

(Management Trainee)

Of

UNDER GUIDANCE OF

Mr. Mahesh Prabakar

(INDUSTRIAL ENGINEER – CL & D)

INTRODUCTION

UTI WORLDWIDE proposes to provide warehouse facility for the FORD INDIA

PRIVATE LTD. The proposed unit envisages providing facility in the field of safe storage

of car manufacturing products by making standard warehouse with all type of required

safety measures. The warehouse operation has been working for more than one year and

it undergoes Inbound and out bound operation. It receives the various cars parts from the

FORD plant and send back to the Ford plant when it is required. It almost contains more

than 750 parts in the warehouse which also includes both the vehicle parts and engine

parts.

WAREHOUSE AT A GLANCE

1. Unit : UTI WORLDWIDE

2. Location : Kuthambakkam

3. Status : Rent

4. Storage capacity : 1, 38,000 square feet

5. Annual Rent : ----------

7. Man-power : 200 (~)

8. Client : Ford India Pvt Ltd

9. No of fork lift : 8

10. No of locations : A to z (01 to 41)

SITE DETAILS

1. Location : Padur road, kuthambakkam

Chennai-107

2. Power : Available through TNEB

3. Water : Available from Tube well

4. Transport Facility : Own transport facility is available.

5. Medical Facility : Available

6. Post Office : Available

7. Bank Facility : Available

PROJECT SUMMARY

In the warehouse it is responsibility to make sure that we have sufficient location

available for all the parts that are to be stored in the warehouse. This is quite challenging

task. Warehouse space is somehow so expensive and must avoid the empty free space

and also to make sure there is free space in the warehouse when the goods arrived. If

suppose there is shortage of location when the goods arrive in the warehouse it may result

into a huge financial loss to the company and production stops in the plant. From the

above line mentioned here the project report has been prepared to reduce the space

utilized by the NON-MOVING parts for more than 60days in the warehouse. It has been

analyzed in the various format and ensured for moving pallets in the warehouse.

DATA ANALYSIS

The analysis has been done for finding out the NON-MOVING parts in the

warehouse. As a result of that the two parts which are not moving for more than

60days in the warehouse is

They are

PD6BBA044L00DDB5NF

PD6BBA044L00FDB5NF

Steps involved:-

Step 1:-

Step 2:-

Quantified the current location of the pallets in warehouse.

Analyzing how much space the pallet is utilizing.

Estimating & measuring the location pallet to reduce the space and allocateand the pallets within minimum locations.

Step 3:-

Step 4:-

Reducing the number of locations used by the pallets my arranging in the orders.

Details of the pallet:-

Total no of pallets that are not moved are

Part Number PD6BBA044L00FDB5NF PD6BBA044L00DDB5NF

Qty 40 42

Number of location occupied by these two pallets is

Part Number PD6BBA044L00FDB5NF PD6BBA044L00DDB5NF TOTAL

Qty 40 42 82

Locations 34 32 66

Before (pallet locations in the warehouse)

After (pallet locations in the warehouse)

SPACE CALCULATION (PD6BBA044L00FDB5NF)

Area covered for single pallet (before -PD6BBA044L00FDB5NF)

Points to be noted: - This is the actual measurement of keeping pallet in the warehouse but it was not in this manner.

BEFORE (for two pallets –double stacking)

Location

2

Dimension Length (m)Width (m) 31.7

Area (m)

5.1

AREA ( square feet)

54.8913

1

For 42 pallets (ie.,Double stacking) = 1152.72

AFTER (for two pallets –double stacking)

Location

2 2.34

Dimension

Length (m) Width (m)

1.7 3.978 42.815214

Area (m) AREA (square feet)

2 For 42 pallets (ie.,Double stacking) = 899.12

SPACE CALCULATION (PD6BBA044L00DDB5NF)

Area covered for single pallet (before -PD6BBA044L00DDB5NF)

Points to be noted: - This is the actual measurement of keeping pallet in the warehouse but it was not in this manner.

BEFORE (for two pallets –double stacking)

Location

2

Dimension Length (m)Width (m) 31.7

For 40 pallets (ie.,Double stacking) =

Area (m)

5.1

AREA (feet)

54.8913

1097.83

AFTER (for two pallets –double stacking)

Location

2

Dimension

Length (m) 2.34

Width (m) 1.7

Area (m)

3.978

AREA (feet)

42.815214

4

For 40 pallets (ie.,Double stacking) = 856.30

-5-

TOTAL SPACE CREATED IN THE

WAREHOSUE AFTER THE

ARRANGEMETNS OF THESE PALLETS

(By subtracting (1 + 3) – (2 + 4) )

____ 495.12

TOTAL COST SPEND FOR THIS

SPACE IN THE WAREHOUSE IS

(assumptions Rs 1/feet)

____ 495.12

The 495.12 which is equal to 7 locations

in the warehouse

(One location occupies 64.57 feet)

CONTINGENCY PLAN FOR THE SPACE UTILIZATION IN THE

WAREHOUSE:-

As already mentioned above, necessary

actions to be taken for these kinds of pallets in the warehouse. And manage the

space that is available and make sure that the inbound parts can be stored in the

warehouse. Information about current and forecasted space utilization can enable

the warehouse manager to make decisions about where items should be stored.

This report can help the warehouse manager to identify problems with missing

empty space for items that will arrive today or in the future and it can provide

sufficient space for the pallets to keep in unused space.

For avoiding the space related issues, we should

analyze the current capacity of the warehouse and total capacity of the warehouse.

We should segregate the pallets into moving and non moving pallets in the

warehouse which have separate locations for each and this reduce the movements

of the Fork lift for the various locations to the pick the pallets. These kind of actions

to be taken for the betterment of the space utilization in the warehouse.

By,

PRAVIN RAJ M

(Management Trainee)