Pooled warehouse management: An empirical study

Abstract

International audienceToday, pooled warehouse presents a major issue for supply chain actors. Managing such structures establishes a more complex and little known actions system. In this paper, we provide the main specificities of a pooled warehouse examined from the perspectives of both a literature review and an exploratory qualitative study built on seven cases in France. This study is based on semi-structured interviews with 22 companies managing projects in the field of pooled warehouses. From this qualitative analysis, we distinguish the main characteristics of pooled warehouses, such as compatibility and partner maturity, shared Vendor Managed Inventory, and collaborative management. In addition, we identify new key performance indicators, uncertainty sources and risks of pooled warehouses. This work helps define pooled warehouse concept and brings practitioners a better understanding of how it can be managed. Furthermore, it allows researchers to develop new models of optimization considering the pooling context

Storage allocation optimization model in a Colombian company

“…There are products that have to be kept for around six months, products with more prolonged storage time and other products with shorter warehousing requirements, generally due to their immediate consumption. This behavior is frequent in distribution centers of large companies that supply a large number of sales points on a daily basis, in the distribution of massive-consumption products and even in companies with models of shared warehouses [37].…”

Analytical and economic methodology for storage of large heavyweight equipment in industrial processes

“…This task facilitates the anticipation of possible problems, which may be encountered during the planning, commissioning or operation of this system, as well as the possibility of finding certain limitations that had not previously been considered (Makaci, Reaidy, Evrard-Samuel, Botta-Genoulaz, & Monteiro, 2017). For a clearer vision of which risks are found to require a priority treatment, results obtained via the Risks Analysis of our case study are summarized in Table 11 -where risks and their probability and impact are listed-and in Table 12 -where these risks are classified-.…”

Planning process for pooling integration in city logistics

“…As the application of pooling, carpooling is one of its well-known usages; recently, GoodsPooling, equivalent to carpooling concept is emerged in order to integrate daily home/work trips to handle pickup and delivery activities in urban goods movement [15]. Warehouse pooling has been also discussed to show how the implementation of pooling concept in warehousing improves performance and enhances the ecoefficiency of logistics systems [16].…”

“…This classification is on the basis of their placement, either in the skirt of a city or in the urban area. Urban Distribution Centre (or Urban Consolidation Centre) is a rather large warehouse located at the edge of city centres, in close proximity to major access roads [16]. The second group comprises the innovative storages located in the centre of the city.…”