What Is Automated Materials Handling?

Material processing is a logistics operation that mainly occurs at the nodes of the logistics network. Including: (1) Loading and unloading, that is, the operation of loading and unloading equipment at a designated place by human or mechanical devices. (2) Sorting, that is, sorting and stacking of items in order of variety and out of the warehouse. (3) Collecting goods, that is, collecting scattered or small batches of goods for transportation and distribution operations. (4) Grouping, that is, organizing and arranging the loading operation of the articles according to the flow, direction of the articles, and the load and volume of the transportation means before delivery. (5) Transportation, that is, the logistics operation of horizontal movement of articles in the same place. ^[1]