Objectives of Warehouse Location:

The basic objectives taken into consideration while locating a warehouse are as follows :

• Provide effective order filling, stock picking
• Permit ease to inventory counts,
• Efficient loading and unloading of vehicles, and
• Accurate maintenance of inventory records.

The location of warehouse is one of the most simple and straightforward location decisions among all of the facilities. The dominant factors affecting the location of warehouse are the incoming and outgoing transportation cost. For placing a warehouse this is worth essential that it should be placed near the market to communicate effectively with recipients of outgoing products and react quickly to customer's orders with minimum transportation cost.