Class 11 Business Studies - Chapter Business Services NCERT Solutions | Explain warehousing and its functions.

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Explain warehousing and its functions.

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Warehousing: It described as to preserving a quantity of goods for the use when it required. Functions of warehousing are as given below:

1. Consolidation: In this function the warehouse receives and consolidates, materials or goods from various different production plants and dispatches the same to particular customer on a single transportation shipment.

2. Break-Bulk: This function described as the shipment of bulk quantity of goods from the production plants to the various distribution warehouse and then reshipment in small amount of quantities to different customers.

3. Stock Piling: The another function of warehouse is the seasonal storage of goods to select business for e.g. Agriculture products are harvested at particu;ar times with subsequent consumption throughout the whole year.

4. Value-added Services : Certain value added services are also given by the ware houses like in the transit mixing, packaging and labelling etc.

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