CHAPTER 2 STORAGE AND MATERIAL HANDLING

CHAPTER 2 STORAGE AND MATERIAL HANDLING The supply system constantly performs material receipts, storage, and expenditures. These functions are essential elements of providing supply support to aviation maintenance and other organizations. Aviation Storekeepers should know the basic elements that make these tasks easier to accomplish. Afloat, the supervisor is responsible for ensuring that materials are safely brought on board. The supervisor is also responsible for making sure incoming material is processed properly. Material must be properly identified, inspected or verified (as needed), sorted, distributed, and documented. Ashore, you may not be involved with the actual receiving and storing of material during normal operating hours. The civilian personnel workforce usually perform these functions; however, you must know the functions to make transactions during emergencies. After normal operating hours, the duty section may be involved in peforming these functions. As the supervisor, you are responsible for making sure the job is properly done. Other tasks the supervisor may get involved with is planning the storage and office layout. The plan may be required for constructing new or additional buildings or rearranging stock to accommodate new procedures. The efficiency of supply operations depends largely on the smooth flow of material and paperwork. As the supervisor, you should be able to identify storage and support areas that need improvements. DEFINITIONS OF TERMS Several terms are used relating to storage and material handling in the Navy. These terms include the following: AISLE— Any passageway within a storage area. ALLOCATED SPACE— A definite number of net square feet of a specified type of storage space formal] y apportioned for use. BAY— Designated area within a section of a warehouse, normally outlined or bounded by posts, pillars, columns, or painted lines. BIN AREA— An area for the storage of small items. BINNABLE ORDER PICKING— Order picking system in which small quantities of material are picked from open cases or shelf boxes. BIN STORAGE SPACE— Area in which bins have been erected, including aisles and working space between bins. BLOCK STORAGE— Storage of similar containers or material in blocks of two or more units wide, two or more deep, and two or more high. BRIDGE PLATE— Plate usually made of metal, used to span the space between the truck and the loading platform. BULK STORAGE— Storage in warehouses of any large quantity of supplies usually in original containers, or storage of liquids, lumber, or petroleum products. CAROUSEL STORAGE SYSTEM— Endless loop monorail-supported storage system, which moves storage carriers past an operator station. CUBE— The product of length x width x depth. DRIVE-INRACK— Pallet rack system in which the pallets are supported on the sides permitting a forklift truck to drive into the rack structure to store or retrieve loads. FLOOR LOAD— Weight that can be supported safely by a floor, expressed in pounds per square foot of floor space. FLOOR PLAN— A scale drawing of the floor area of a building showing columns, stairwells, elevator shafts, offices, heads/washrooms, doors, and other structural features. GROSS STORAGESPACE— Gross area, regardless of its location or designated purpose, used for any operation concerning storage or the support of storage functions. HAZARDOUS COMMODITIES— Materials consisting of explosives, flammable material, corrosives, combustibles, oxidizers, poisons, toxics, sources of ionizing radiation or radiant energy, biological and radiological, magnetics, and compressed gases that, because of their nature, are 2-1