Layoutförbättring på KSL Trading AB
s lager för skivmaterial
KSL Trading Inc is a trading company in the Jönkoping area that distributesmaterial for the furniture and interior design industry.The purpose of this report is to analyze the existing material flow andwarehouse layout as well as to identify the issues there are today at KSL?swarehouse for board material. When we identified what kind of problems thatexisted we were able to design a new plan for the material flow and storagepossibilities. The problems we found where:? There is no well-organised warehouse layout? There are no routines to keep the warehouse clean and in order? There is no formed plan how to handle materialTo solve these problems we have used different methods like interviews,observations, calculations and literature studies. The information we havegathered from these methods have been analyzed and developed into a resultIn the result we have made two time studies on different orders in the existinglayout. We have presented two proposals on layout improvements on thewarehouse that improves the handling and flow of the material. Then wesimulated these orders in one of the two layout proposals to make an estimateof time improvements. In packing orders we can show on an estimatedimprovement in time of 45 %We have divided the material into eight different families and then performedan ABC-analysis on these families. We have also analysed how much materialof each family that is stored.We have designed a new marking label that simplifies the work to maintain thematerials that are stored well in order and structure.Finally we have been able to draw some overall conclusions on how to improvethe situation for the entire organisation.