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Yarn ||| Dies Chemical storage management System in Textile Industry

Store/ Warehouse Management

The place where goods are kept is called a store or warehouse. Store refers to the activities involving storage of goods on a large scale in a systematic and orderly manner and making them available conveniently when needed. Store Means holding or preserving goods in huge quantities from the time of their purchase or production till their actual use or sale. Store supply chain department maintains a proper and up-to-date record of all material received and issued at the site. It ensures proper stocking, stacking and preservation of material; classify an item according to its characteristics. Store gives a unique code number to each item to avoid duplication and ambiguity. It reveals the excessive variety and promotes standardization and variety reduction. It helps to establish a common language for the identification of an item. Supply chain management helps to fix essential parameters for specifying an item and specify items as per national and international standards. Textile industries have mainly four types of raw materials which supply chain needs to manage. They are Yarn, Dies & chemicals, Fabric, trims, and accessories. Also, there is another department called planning which follow-up the activities of finish goods flow as there are three production units.


Yarn storage and handling procedure

There is a separate yarn storage management system for any chemical and dies items. Safe receipt, storage, retrieval, and timely dispatch, proper allocation, and easy identification should be maintained by the store/ warehouse team and ERP or any other system.


Yarn store responsibilities are:

  1. Lead and guide a central store for all production units.
  2. Ensure proper maintenance and operation of the store like a safe receipt, storage, retrieval, and timely dispatch.
  3. Ensure proper allocation and easy identification.
  4. Ensure goods inbound and outbound, warehouse management, safety and security within the store.
  5. Make sure inventory control, proper deliveries, and implement BIN card.
  6. Make sure to correspond with CNF against yarn import through by the commercial team.
  7. To collect order-wise status from merchandiser & commercial and hand over to the related executive.
  8. To keep yarn as per buyer/style/PO wise.
  9. Monitor warehouse activities to ensure that yarn is stored correctly and safely and organized warehouse space is used efficiently.
  10. Issue the fabric goods to the subcontracted factory as per the requirements of the planning department.
  11. Develop and maintain a software-based system for materials delivered to the production floor as per plan.
  12. Follow and implement the operational strategies and procedures according to the company policy.
  13. Monitor and maintain store ledger, fixed asset register as well as software.
  14. Maintain FIFO/LIFO and smooth operation for yarn received from suppliers, delivery to knitting, and returned products.
  15. Executing all the Day-to-Day Yarn Store functions as per the SOP (Standard Operating Procedure).
  16. Lead and guide the store personnel to accomplish the assigned/vested task in the best possible way.
  17. To ensure the goods of the different style as per the order of the buyer.
  18. Ensure daily/weekly stock reports to the management.


Dies Chemical Storage

The textile industry is a chemicals-based industry; mainly chemicals used for wet processing, dyeing, washing, and garments washing process. There are different types of chemicals needed in the process of different types of textile processing steps. So chemicals play a vital role in the textile industry especially wet processing factories. There are dies, chemicals store management systems also to ensure the best use and maintaining SOP. Need to use all necessary PPE (Personal protective equipment) like aprons, footwear, gloves, chemical resistant glasses, face shields, and respirators during chemical handling.