:smiley: Materials handling covers virtually all aspects of all movements of raw materials, work -
in-process or finished goods within a factory or warehouse. Basically, material movement
is considered as a non value adding activity. Hence, primary objective of A SC manager
should be to eliminate material handling where is possible. This includes minimizing
inventory, travel distance, bottlenecks and loss due to spillage, wast, wrong handling,
damage etc. Manual sorting of materials is quite labor-intensive. It involves separating &
regrouping picked items into the customer orders. Items have to be physically examined
and placed on to pallets or containers for the purpose of dispatching to customers.
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