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Warehouse Management and Design

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Many if not all goods pass though a warehouse at some stage. The main activity of a warehouse is material handling, but it may happen that some operations (packaging, cleaning, assembling, painting, etc.) are performed also during storage. These significant aspects should be included in the analyses of the warehouse systems. The chapter begins with a description of warehouse types and their usefulness. The operations performed and resources used are extensively studied. Special consideration is given to warehouse-management problems. Afterwards, the design stage is considered at length. The components of a warehouse are presented. In particular, storage in unit-load warehouses is covered. Then, the static warehouse-sizing problem is considered, modeled and solved. Later, a dynamic warehouse-sizing problem is discussed. Finally, the chapter finishes by profoundly examining two major approaches for the problem of where to locate warehouses: the single-flow and multiflow hierarchical location models.

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(2010). Warehouse Management and Design. In: Supply Chain Engineering. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-017-5_11

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