Thursday 28 May 2015

Some Activities In Warehouse Leasing

By Ericka Marsh


Buildings are made for both residential and commercial purposes. Warehouse leasing is an industrial activity that includes issuing space for storage of goods. They may be private or public owned. This service is provided to entities such as manufacturers, transport businesses, importers, exporters etc.

Their locations vary, they can be found in both urban and rural areas. The size of a warehouse can be justified by the physical appearance and the level of mechanization. Large ones are characterized by cranes and loading docks which can be either manually or automatically controlled. . These facilities were introduced during the industrialization period, but earlier they existed in small forms of stores where they were used to store harvest and less sophisticated tools.

Leasing allows various kinds of activities to occur for various reasons. It can be an avenue used for the display of wares for sale. Some provide services related to foreign trade. The warehouses become meeting areas for large-scale importers and exporters, where goods are kept for the handling of tax and verification purposes. In this area packaging is done as well. The items are chosen, labelled, tested for legality and parcelled for transit.

Some of the common storehouses are those located in railways, airports and seaports. These ports are busy as they receive large numbers of containers. This takes time to process before being collected by respective customers, hence a need for a place to store them. They are highly specialized and automated. Cranes, conveyors, storage and retrieval is mainly done by computers. Perishable goods are stored in refrigerated computers.

When a tenant leases a warehouse, he may be given a room with fast access to his goods. Keys could be provided for particular lock rooms. Even though storage is usually short term, arrangements can be made to facilitate longer storage times. Residential use of the room is an absolutely not allowed. Good may be insured by insurance companies if the tenant agrees the additional cost.

The process begins with the receipt of the items, after which they are moved to quality control and verified. The goods are kept in the best conditions, which is dependent on perishability and size. This is the primary aspect that indicates the storage cost. Paperwork on material type, health risks, ownership and the amount of time the items are stored are also processed and kept. There is also the detection of poisonous goods and the dangerous ones are properly disposed of.

General inventory management involves: planning inbound receipt, storage; location management, occupational; health and safety and inventory control and lastly outbound delivery procedure. To choose the best warehouse to hire, one needs to consider the volume of goods, transit point, how fast they respond, the protection issued e. G. Insurance covered, breaking bulk location etc.

Special storage is issued for highly flammable goods such as alcohol and ethanol. Drugs and medical supplies are highly valued, hence stored in highly secured area with special attention on expiry dates. Insecticide, fuels and other toxic materials are stored in preferably cooled sectors which are mostly outside the main warehouse.




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