Improvement of the Company's Warehouse Network

Warehouse is an extremely important element in the logistics system of any company. It is able to perform a huge number of different functions and operations that would not be feasible without him. Almost always, the activities of the company is impossible without the storage function, and therefore without a warehouse. Today, a warehouse is not only a warehouse, but also a complex system, a place for the transformation of material flows. Warehouse - a place in which the transformation occurs (reception, storage, accumulation, processing and distribution) of material flows. Depending on the situation, it can be considered as an independent physical object (structure), or as an element of the logistic system (subsystem). In this paper, we tried to consider all the existing theoretical aspects of warehouse logistics: the definition of the term warehouse, warehousing, the study of existing classifications and approaches to optimizing warehousing in the enterprise. We analyzed all the existing theoretical knowledge base and on its basis presented the author's view and approach to the conceptual apparatus of warehouse logistics. We detail the activities of the selected company, both in general and in warehousing. We looked at a practical example of solving the problem of improving the existing warehouse system of a large woodworking enterprise. The main approaches to the search for previously unknown problems and opportunities to improve the efficiency of the existing warehouse system are considered. The study described several methods to reduce costs and increase the speed of movement of goods through the system. At the end, we conducted theoretical studies on the evaluation and finding the effectiveness of all the decisions we made earlier. This allowed the most structurally and consistently approach to the solution of the task we set. The events announced by us were performed by the selected company. Therefore, we consider our work successful and very important. Keywords: logistics, warehousing, warehousing, warehouse network, warehouse management system, improvement, optimization