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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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