Smoothing the Outflow of Stock from Picking Lines in a Distribution Centre

Visser, Le Roux; Visagie, Stephan E.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-00898-7_29

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“…Material handling and transportation costs are two significant costs connected with a distribution network. Visser and Visagie (2018) focused on smoothing product movement through the DC over time to reduce DC handling costs and transportation costs between the DC and a retail chain's outlets (Visser and Visagie, 2018).…”

Section: Storage and Order Pickingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Industry Expertise Heuristics for Dimensioning Shelf Space of Rack Storage Location in a Distribution Centre with Zone Picking

Czerniachowska,

Wichniarek,

Żywicki

2023

Management and Production Engineering Review

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Appropriate product categorization in distribution centres is important for business success because of the possibility of intuitive product finding by the picker and increased product movement. Both of these factors result in the operational efficiency of the distribution centre. The goal of this paper is to explore a model of shelf space dimensioning of storage location on a rack with vertical and horizontal product categorization in a distribution centre, where the aim is to increase total product movement/profit from all shelves of the rack. This is controlled by a packer who must complete orders by getting the goods from shelves and picking them to the container. In this problem, we develop two heuristics and compare the archived results to the CPLEX solver. The average profit ratios of both heuristics are high and approximately equal to 99%. In 10 cases, optimal solutions have been found by heuristics. The total number of possible solutions to be checked for the largest instance was reduced from 1.33 •10 156 to 1.19 •10 7 thanks to the heuristic rules.

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Section: Storage and Order Pickingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Industry Expertise Heuristics for Dimensioning Shelf Space of Rack Storage Location in a Distribution Centre with Zone Picking

Czerniachowska,

Wichniarek,

Żywicki

2023

Management and Production Engineering Review

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“…The FB design aspects such as Layout design (Diefenbach and Glock, 2019), Storage assignment (Reyes et al, 2019), Crossdocking (Benrqya, 2021), e-fulfilment (Bressolles and Lang, 2019), and Picking optimization (Murugesan et al, 2021) are widely addressed in retail and warehousing context. Further to this, the FRM is being extended with various policy contexts such as, capacity planning (Lin et al, 2019), improving business performance (Laosirihongthong et al, 2018) and Productivity (Peirera et al, 2020), Flow improvements (Visser and Visagie, 2018), Lead-time reduction (Abideen and Mohamad, 2019), Cost-benefit analysis (Benrqya, 2019), responsibility shifting analysis (Mikelson et al, 2019) and sustainability (Burinskiene, 2019) through different approaches such as mathematical modelling, quantitative and VSM. Even the concept has been extended for various industrial sectors across the world such as Construction (Purushothaman et al, 2020), Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) (Dixit et al, 2020), Retail hypermarket (Bashir et al, 2020), andHospitality (Joubart andBam, 2020) to assess the lean capacity.…”

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What should be lean buffer threshold for the forward-reserve warehouse?

Shah

2021

IJPPM

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PurposeThe assorted piece-wise retail orders in a cosmetics warehouse are fulfilled through a separate fast-picking area called Forward Buffer (FB). This study determines “just-right” size of FB to ensure desired Customer Service Level (CSL) at least storage wastages. It also investigates the impact of FB capacity and demand variations on FB leanness.Design/methodology/approachA Value Stream Mapping (VSM) tool is applied to analyse the warehouse activities and mathematical model is implemented in MATLAB to quantify the leanness at desired CSL. A comprehensive framework is developed to determine lean FB buffer size for a Retail Distribution Centre (RDC) of a cosmetics industry.FindingsThe CSL increases monotonically; however, the results concerning spent efforts towards CSL improvement gets diminished with raised demand variances. The desired CSL can be achieved at least FB capacity and fewer Storage Waste (SW) as it shifts towards more lean system regime. It is not possible to improve Value Added (VA) time beyond certain constraints and therefore, it is recommended to reduce Non-Value Added (NVA) order processing activities to improve leanness.Research limitations/implicationsThis study determines “just-right” capacity and investigates the impact of buffer and demand variations on leanness. It helps managers to analyse warehouse processes and design customized distribution policies in food, beverage and retail grocery warehouse.Practical implicationsProposed buffering model offers customized strategies beyond pre-set CSL by varying it dynamically to reduce wastages. The mathematical model deriving lean sizing and mitigation guidelines are constructive development for managers.Originality/valueThis research provides an inventive approach of VSM model and Mathematical algorithm endorsing lean thinking to design effective buffering policies in a forward warehouse.

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Smoothing the Outflow of Stock from Picking Lines in a Distribution Centre

Cited by 2 publications

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Industry Expertise Heuristics for Dimensioning Shelf Space of Rack Storage Location in a Distribution Centre with Zone Picking

Industry Expertise Heuristics for Dimensioning Shelf Space of Rack Storage Location in a Distribution Centre with Zone Picking

What should be lean buffer threshold for the forward-reserve warehouse?

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