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Method that use by Nestle to store and handling in warehouse

1) Ice cream

• Nestle stores ice cream in their cool storage
• Nestle's cool storage warehouse  is to ensure that ice cream products can be kept at an optimal temperature.
• Nestle is picking ice cream products according to the picking list in the picking area.
• After picking products, Nestle began to palletize the picked products and move them to the storage area.
• Nestle take the pallet back from the storage area to the outbound assembly area and load the product into the truck.
• Nestle's material handling equipment for handling ice cream is truck forklift, electric tray and manual jack.
• Nestle uses forklifts to move along the prescribed path, with an average operation of about 8 hours a day.
• There is also the use of forklifts, because it can help transport pallets from the warehouse to the production area.

2) Pet food-(AGV)

• Nestle's warehouse uses a pallet shuttle system for pallets containing pet food.
• Nestle also uses three blocks of racks to store pet food.
• Pet food is stuffed into one side of the rack block and retrieved from the other side.
• Nestle pet food is controlled according to the first-in-first-out principle (FIFO) principle, and this principle is chosen because it is most suitable for foods that are sensitive to the expiration date, such as the pet food produced by Nestle.
• Nestle uses customized pallet racking to handle pet food in conjunction with automatic guided vehicles (AGV), because AGV does not need drivers, because they are computer-controlled trucks powered by batteries.

Question

Do you agree with the methods used by Nestle to store and handle the given products? Why or why not? Provide justification and examples for your reason.

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