Determining Space for Receiving and Shipping
- When calculating the space required for the receiving and shipping staging area, the number of receiving and shipping dock doors and the turnaround time for each dock would be considered.
- A common practice is to allocate enough staging space behind each dock door to accommodate a truckload’s worth of material.
You would need to:
- Define the materials received and shipped
- Determine the dock bay requirements
- Determine the dock bay configuration
- Determine the manoeuvring allowances inside the warehouse
- Define the buffer and staging area requirements
- Define the dock-related space requirements
- Use of a receiving and shipping analysis chart (RSAC) helps to determine space requirement
- Columns 1 – 5 define what is to be received or shipped
- Column 6 displays the size of the shipment
- Column 7 shows when the receipts and shipments will occur
- Columns 8 – 9 list the types of carriers
- Columns 10 – 11 show the handling methods and time required for loading and unloading.