warehouse

a storehouse for goods and merchandise store in a warehouse

A warehouse is a commercial building for storage of goods. Warehouses are used by manufacturers, importers, exporters, wholesalers, transport businesses, customs, etc. They are usually large plain buildings in industrial parts of towns. They come equipped with loading docks to load and unload trucks; or sometimes are loaded directly from railways, airports, or seaports. They also often have crane (machine)cranes and forklifts for moving goods, which are usually placed on ISO standard pallets.Some warehouses are completely automated, with no workers working inside. The pallets and product are moved with a system of automated conveyors and crane (machine)automated storage and retrieval machines coordinated by programmable logic controllers and computers running logistics automation software. These systems are often installed in freezerrefrigerated warehouses where temperatures are kept very cold to keep the product from spoiling, and also where land is expensive, as automated storage systems can use vertical space efficiently. These high-bay storage areas are often more than 10 meters high, with some over 20 meters high.Traditional warehousing has been declining since the last decades of the 20th century with the gradual introduction of Just In Time (JIT) techniques designed to improve the return on investment of a business by reducing in-process inventory. The JIT system promotes the delivery of objects straight from the factory to the retail merchant, or from parts manufacturers directly to a large scale factory such as an automobile assembly plant, without the use of warehouses. However, with the gradual implementation of offshore outsourcing and offshoring in about the same time period, the distance between the manufacturer and the retailer (or the parts manufacturer and the industrial plant) grew considerably in many domains, necessitating at least one warehouse per country or per region in any typical supply chain for a given range of products.Recent developments in marketing have also led to the development of warehouse-style retail stores with extremely high ceilings where decorative shelving is replaced by tall heavy duty industrial racks, with the items ready for sale being placed in the bottom parts of the racks and the crated or pallet-borne and wrapped inventory items being usually placed in the top parts. In this way the same building is used both as a retail store and a warehouse.Vacant warehouses were an often used location in the late 1980s and early to mid 1990s for illegal Rave partyraves.

See also -

Bonded warehouse

Data warehouse

Granary

Warehouse club

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Commercial Real Estate & Investments in Florida at UNIWEB Commercial Inc.
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Banking Services Direct (MBSD) - Austin, Texas Consulting Services
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Micro Warehouse
On-line computer and peripheral warehouse.
http://www.warehouse.com

CDW Computer Centers, Inc.
Sells broad range of microcomputer hardware and peripherals, including desktop computers, notebooks and laptops, printing devices, video monitors, data storage devices, networking products and software, primarily to business, government, educational, institutional and home office users in the United States. (Nasdaq: CDWC).
http://www.cdw.com/

Environmental Protection Agency
Committed to protecting the natural environment.
http://www.epa.gov/

A.D.D. WareHouse
Sells and distributes a large collection of ADD-related books, videos, training programs, games, professional texts and assessment products.
http://www.addwarehouse.com/