Orderliness.

TM 38-400/NAVSUP PUB 572/AFMAN 23-210 MCO 4450.14/DLAM 4145.12

-- "Means like items placed together so that CON

SMALL LOT STORAGE

TENTS of stack and containers may be QUICKLY and

-- "BULK BAY STORAGE consists of LARGE BLOCK

EASILY IDENTIFIED."

STACKS for storing large quantities of the same item."

-- "There is NO excuse for SLOPPY STACKING."

-- "MEDIUM LOT STORAGE is defined as a stack of

-- "There are three self-- evident reasons for OR

material requiring one to three pallet stacks, stored to

DERLINESS in stacking"

maximum storage height."

-- "SMALL LOT STORAGE is a stack consisting of a

quantity of supplies ranging from one container to a lot

STOCK PICKING

consisting of two or more pallets but less than the

INVENTORY

quantity required to complete a full pallet stack. Stress

INHERENT NECESSITY IN STORAGE OP

following KEY THOUGHT:

ERATIONS TO MAINTAIN GOOD HOUSE

-- 'Where possible, all stacks should START AT THE

KEEPING

WALL and be WORKED FORWARD TO AN AISLE."

-- "Stacks built in the large center sections should be

(1) There is no more excuse for confusion

started at an imaginary back line and built for ward to an

and disorder in arranging stacks in a storage location

aisle." Discuss with the group large bulk lot stacking as

than there is in placing the furniture in your home

it is used in their warehouses.

around the room in "helter skelter" fashion. We might

-- "WHERE in your warehouse do you use this type of

consider that our storage area is made up of two types

stacking?"

of stacks-BLOCK STACKS and SHORT LOT STACKS.

-- '"WHAT items are usually stacked in large bulk lots?"

(a) A BLOCK STACK may be defined

Discuss the items and conditions of stacking supplies in

as a "self-supporting regular stack two or more wide, two

medium lot storage.

or more deep, and two or more high." From this we can

-- "Explain 'side to back' stacking."

see that the supplies we place in LARGE LOT BULK

-- "'Where is it used?"

STORAGE as well as those we stack in MEDIUM LOT

-- "What commodities do we stack in this manner in our

STORAGE are both block stacks. However, we have

warehouses?" Discuss small lot storage.

come to a general understanding that a BLOCK STACK

-- 'Why is it necessary to have small lot stacks?"

consists of supplies stored in carload or truckload lots

-- "What do you stack in small lot storage?"

filling an area of perhaps 20 by 20 feet and stacked to a

b. Discussion guide for types of stacks.

height of from 10 to 14 feet, or in other words LARGE

(1) When discussing stacking we should take

lot storage. This type of stack is the most efficient

care to differentiate between type of stack and method

method of conserving space, and we should try to follow

of stacking. In this outline, method refers to a WAY of

this type of stacking as often as possible. It should be

building a stack such as by the use of forklift trucks and

done with mechanical equipment.

pallets or through the use of stacking equipment in

(b) Block stacks are limited only by:

outside storage. Excluding retail bin areas, study and

MHE.

search for improvement. These items must be stacked

Quantity of the item.

as high as possible with as little loss of space as

Size and height of the building.

possible. Constant check should be made of all stacks;

Floor load limits.

those that are unstable, shifting, or leaning should be

Necessary aisle space.

corrected and studied in the light of WHY they are not

Size, shape, and crushability of supplies.

stable and what causes them to shift. By so doing,

Items subject to spontaneous combustion.

many accidents and much lost time rebuilding or

(c) Block stacks start back at the wall

repairing stacks can be prevented.

and end at an aisle, or in the case of large center

c. Orderliness.

sections of storage space, the block stack starts at an

-- "Bring out through questions and comments from

imaginary line drawn through the longitudinal

various class members their idea of ORDER LINESS in

stacking."

-- "Means STRAIGHT, STABLE, EASILY ACCES SIBLE

stacks."

-- "Does NOT mean PRECISION warehousing which is

NOT DESIRED."

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