Meaning of warehousing. Reading
1. Read the text.
2. Listen to the announcer and check your pronunciation.
3. Translate unknown words and try to remember them.
We need different types of goods in our day-to-day life. We may buy some of these items in
bulk and store them in our house. Similarly, businessmen also need a variety of goods for
their use. Some of them may not be available all the time. But, they need those items throughout
the year without any break. Take the example of a sugar factory. It needs sugarcane as raw
material for production of sugar. You know that sugarcane is produced during a particular
period of the year. Since sugar production takes place throughout the year, there is a need
to supply sugarcane continuously. But how is it possible? Here storage of sugarcane in
sufficient quantity is required. Again, after production of sugar it requires some time for sale
or distribution. Thus, the need for storage arises both for raw material as well as finished
products. Storage involves proper arrangement for preserving goods from the time of their
production or purchase till the actual use. When this storage is done on a large scale and in
a specified manner it is called ‘warehousing’. The place where goods are kept is called
‘warehouse’. The person in-charge of warehouse is called ‘warehouse-keeper’.
Warehousing 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. In other words,
warehousing means holding or preserving goods in huge quantities from the time of their
purchase or production till their actual use or sale.
Warehousing is one of the important auxiliaries to trade. It creates time utility by bridging the
time gap between production and consumption of goods.
2. Listen to the announcer and check your pronunciation.
3. Translate unknown words and try to remember them.
We need different types of goods in our day-to-day life. We may buy some of these items in
bulk and store them in our house. Similarly, businessmen also need a variety of goods for
their use. Some of them may not be available all the time. But, they need those items throughout
the year without any break. Take the example of a sugar factory. It needs sugarcane as raw
material for production of sugar. You know that sugarcane is produced during a particular
period of the year. Since sugar production takes place throughout the year, there is a need
to supply sugarcane continuously. But how is it possible? Here storage of sugarcane in
sufficient quantity is required. Again, after production of sugar it requires some time for sale
or distribution. Thus, the need for storage arises both for raw material as well as finished
products. Storage involves proper arrangement for preserving goods from the time of their
production or purchase till the actual use. When this storage is done on a large scale and in
a specified manner it is called ‘warehousing’. The place where goods are kept is called
‘warehouse’. The person in-charge of warehouse is called ‘warehouse-keeper’.
Warehousing 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. In other words,
warehousing means holding or preserving goods in huge quantities from the time of their
purchase or production till their actual use or sale.
Warehousing is one of the important auxiliaries to trade. It creates time utility by bridging the
time gap between production and consumption of goods.