. Despite the high expenses, which come by carrying inventories, warehouses function as a buffer between the variability of supply and demand, which makes them necessary element in the contemporary supply chains. The high expenses provoke the challenge for achieving low cost warehousing with a high level of customer satisfaction at the same time. However, under the influence of factors like e-commerce, supply-chain collaboration, globalization, and new management techniques such as JIT and Lean production, successful warehousing is heading towards tighter inventory control, shorter response time and a greater variety