Layoutförbättring på KSL Trading AB:s lager för skivmaterial

Sammanfattning: KSL Trading Inc is a trading company in the Jönkoping area that distributes material for the furniture and interior design industry. The purpose of this report is to analyze the existing material flow and warehouse layout as well as to identify the issues there are today at KSL’s warehouse for board material. When we identified what kind of problems that existed we were able to design a new plan for the material flow and storage possibilities. 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 material To solve these problems we have used different methods like interviews, observations, calculations and literature studies. The information we have gathered from these methods have been analyzed and developed into a result In the result we have made two time studies on different orders in the existing layout. We have presented two proposals on layout improvements on the warehouse that improves the handling and flow of the material. Then we simulated these orders in one of the two layout proposals to make an estimate of time improvements. In packing orders we can show on an estimated improvement in time of 45 % We have divided the material into eight different families and then performed an ABC-analysis on these families. We have also analysed how much material of each family that is stored. We have designed a new marking label that simplifies the work to maintain the materials that are stored well in order and structure. Finally we have been able to draw some overall conclusions on how to improve the situation for the entire organisation.