Technical and organizational conditions of designing warehouses with different functional structures

The article presents a discussion on designing warehouse facilities and processes as a part of logistics systems. The main technical and organizational conditions of designing and modelling warehouses as well as internal and external factors influencing warehouse operation are presented. The stochastic nature of these factors is indicated. In the next part, a six-piece model of the warehouse facility is presented and discussed. The model embraces spatial conditions of the object and hierarchical division of space for functional reasons, internal transport subsystem with its resources, warehousing process and a set of organizational assumptions for modelling and designing. Typical elements of warehousing process, classification of warehouses due to their functions and tasks, functional classification of warehouse facilities, technological and organizational conditions of designing warehouse facilities, warehouse designing loop, the determinants of warehouse designing, the elements of the model of a warehouse, functional structure of a warehouse, warehousing process, internal transport system, logistics task, work organization rules and informatics system are presented in the paper.