In the past, I've never seen or heard any advertisement about Army Logistics Base. I've always thought that anything that has to do with the army like their weapons and general supplies are all being handled by the army guys, not the special department, ALB. But a recent trip to there changes all my views.

ALB adopts a 'through flow' system where the loading and unloading bay are just at the opposite ends of each other. Also, ALB has shown a great real life example to the five main operations that was taught through the textbook to me only. In the five main operations, the system, pallet ASRS situated in the receiving bay, impressed me the most as it is one of the largest system used in ALB. It can managed 13, 500 pallets with 6 cranes and 18 racks with the height of 30m to 35m. Example of the advantage of this system are being showed by the guide person like goods not placed properly will be rejected. This additional information given did help me in interpreting and getting known to the system that the textbook does not have. In addition to that, the tour guide exhibited the new army uniform to us and introduced the new system that the army backpacks are now pre-packed and sent to the enlistees instead of having them to collect at the counter.

Overall, the whole trip has given me an overview of how the five main operations should look like in real life instead of just looking at the pictures given from the textbook. Though its a pity that no photo taking is allowed in ALB, it is definitely an eye opener and great help to me.