An integrated model for warehouse design and planning

Warehouse design is a field of interest for both practitioners and researchers that have attracted a lot of research attention in the last years. Nevertheless it remains a complex task with very few general models that capture the existing and often conflicting trade-offs of a warehouse system. Lite...

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Autor principal: Geraldes, Carla A.S. (author)
Outros Autores: Carvalho, Sameiro (author), Pereira, Guilherme (author)
Formato: conferenceObject
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2014
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Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/10198/10742
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:bibliotecadigital.ipb.pt:10198/10742
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Resumo:Warehouse design is a field of interest for both practitioners and researchers that have attracted a lot of research attention in the last years. Nevertheless it remains a complex task with very few general models that capture the existing and often conflicting trade-offs of a warehouse system. Literature surveys show that most research efforts have been devoted to solve limited and well-defined problems rather than integrated ones. This is not surprising since developing an integrated model is more difficult to analyse and treat analytically. In this talk we present and discuss a high-level model that integrates some decisions involved in warehouse design and planning. Our aim is to analyse the value of integrating warehouse decisions showing that additional savings can be achieved.