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ware·house (wâr'hous')  |
| Investment Dictionary: Warehousing |
1. A procedure whereby a company gradually builds up a holding of shares in a company it wishes to takeover in the future.
2. The process of storing goods within a storage facility.
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1. The acquiring company "warehouses" small lots of shares by holding them under the name of a nominee. Companies use the warehousing technique of share acquisition when they wish to remain anonymous or are unable to make a public tender offer.
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| Banking Dictionary: Warehousing |
1. Holding of mortgages by a Mortgage Banker on a short-term basis until the loans are sold to an investor. The mortgage originator finances the inventory of unsold loans with a short-term line of credit, using the mortgages as loan collateral. This form of financing commonly is used by mortgage bankers to raise working capital funds until mortgages held in inventory are sold to a permanent investor, the Take-Out Lender.
2. Temporary storage of transactions by an Automated Clearinghouse (Ach) or a financial institution, as for corporate customers. ACH associations may hold transactions for financial institutions up to 31 days prior to the Value Date when funds actually are moved.
3. Pledging a Mortgage as collateral for short-term loans, usually called a hypothecated mortgage.
4. Interest carryover in an Adjustable Rate Mortgage subject to a periodic rate cap. When a rise in borrowing costs exceeds the interest rate cap, lenders may defer interest payable to future time periods if allowed by the mortgage contract.
| Thesaurus: warehouse |
noun
| Architecture: warehouse |
A building designed for the storage of various goods.
| Word Tutor: warehouse |
They had to get what I wanted from the warehouse, so I had to wait for it.
| Dream Symbol: Warehouse |
Dreaming about a warehouse might be about past memories or something else in the past. Alternatively, perhaps we have put something in storage, such as artistic ambitions, in order to pursue something else.
| Wikipedia: Warehouse |
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A warehouse is a commercial building for storage of goods. Warehouses are used by manufacturers, importers, exporters, wholesalers, transport businesses, customs, etc. They are usually large plain buildings in industrial areas of cities and towns. They usually have loading docks to load and unload goods from trucks. Sometimes warehouses load and unload goods directly from railways, airports, or seaports. They often have cranes and forklifts for moving goods, which are usually placed on ISO standard pallets loaded into pallet racks.
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Stored goods can include any raw materials, components, or finished goods associated with agriculture, manufacturing, or commerce.
Some of the most common warehouse storage systems are:
Major warehousing processes include:
Warehouses frequently provide services, such as:
Material direction and tracking in a warehouse can be coordinated by a Warehouse Management System (WMS), a database driven computer program. Logistics personnel use the WMS to improve warehouse efficiency by directing putaways and to maintain accurate inventory by recording warehouse transactions.
Some warehouses are completely automated, and require no workers inside. Pallets and product move on a system of automated conveyors and automated storage and retrieval machines coordinated by programmable logic controllers and computers running logistics automation software. These systems are often installed in refrigerated warehouses where temperatures are kept very cold to keep product from spoiling, and also where land is expensive, as automated storage systems can use vertical space efficiently. These high-bay storage areas are often more than 10 meters (33 feet) high, with some over 20 meters (65 feet) high.
For a warehouse to function efficiently, the facility must be properly slotted. Slotting addresses which storage medium a product is picked from (pallet rack or carton flow), and how they are picked (pick-to-light, pick-to-voice, or pick-to-paper). With a proper slotting plan, a warehouse can improve its inventory rotation requirements—such as first in, first out (FIFO) and last in, first out (LIFO)—control labor costs and increase productivity. (1)
Traditional warehousing has declined since the last decades of the 20th century, with the gradual introduction of Just In Time (JIT) techniques. The JIT system promotes product delivery directly from suppliers to consumer without the use of warehouses. However, with the gradual implementation of offshore outsourcing and offshoring in about the same time period, the distance between the manufacturer and the retailer (or the parts manufacturer and the industrial plant) grew considerably in many domains, necessitating at least one warehouse per country or per region in any typical supply chain for a given range of products.
Recent retailing trends have led to the development of warehouse-style retail stores. These high-ceiling buildings display retail goods on tall, heavy duty industrial racks rather than conventional retail shelving. Typically, items ready for sale are on the bottom of the racks, and crated or palletized inventory is in the upper rack. Essentially, the same building serves as both warehouse and retail store.
Large exporters/manufacturers use warehouses as distribution points for developing retail outlets in a particular region or country. This concept reduces end cost to the consumer and enhances the production sale ratio.
The internet has had an influence on warehouses. Internet-based stores do not require physical retail space, but still require warehouses to store goods. This kind of warehouse fills many small orders directly from end customers rather than fewer orders of many items from stores.
Having a large and complex supply chain containing many warehouse can be costly. It may be beneficial for a company to have one large warehouse per continent, typically located centrally to transportation. At these continental hubs, goods may be customized for different countries. For example, goods get a price ticket in the language of the destination country. Small, in-warehouse adjustments to goods are called value added services.
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| Translations: Warehouse |
Dansk (Danish)
n. - varehus, magasin, lager, pakhus, opbevaringssted
v. tr. - opmagasinere, oplægge
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Nederlands (Dutch)
magazijn, depot, loods, opslagplaats, pakhuis, warenhuis, opslaan
Français (French)
n. - entrepôt
v. tr. - entreposer
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Deutsch (German)
n. - Lager, Lagerhaus, Großmarkt
v. - (ein)lagern
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Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - αποθήκη (εμπορευμάτων)
v. - αποθηκεύω
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Português (Portuguese)
n. - armazém (m)
v. - armazenar
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Русский (Russian)
склад, оптовый магазин, большой розничный магазин, хранить на складе, сдавать на хранение
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Español (Spanish)
n. - almacén, depósito, bodega
v. tr. - almacenar
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Svenska (Swedish)
n. - magasin
v. - magasinera
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
仓库, 大商店, 货栈, 储入仓库
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中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 倉庫, 大商店, 貨棧
v. tr. - 儲入倉庫
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한국어 (Korean)
n. - 창고, 도매 상점, 인간 창고(정신병자, 노인, 빈민 등을 가둬 두는 대형 공공 시설)
v. tr. - 창고에 넣다, 보세 창고에 맡기다, 인간 창고에 쓸어 넣다
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 倉庫, 卸し売り店
v. - 倉庫に入れる, 保税倉庫に預ける
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العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) مستودع, مخزن (فعل) استودع السلع, خزن
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - מחסן, מחסן-סחורות
v. tr. - אחסן סחורות באופן זמני, הכניס אדם לבית-סוהר או בית חולים ושכח על קיומו
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