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Prioritizing replenishments of the piece picking area
Año:2014

Áreas de investigación
  • Ingeniería mecánica, aeronaútica y naval,
  • Ciencias sociales

Datos
Descripción
Having sufficient inventories in the forward or piece picking area of a warehouse is an essential condition for warehouse operations. As pickers consume the inventory in the piece racks, there is a risk of stockout. This can be reduced by the timely replenishment of products from the bulk reserve area to the forward area. We develop and compare three policies for prioritizing replenishments for the case where order picking and replenishments occur concurrently because of time restrictions. The first policy, based on the ratio of available inventory to wave demand, reduces the number of stockouts considerably. The other two more sophisticated policies reduce the number of stockouts even more but require much more computation time, and are more costly in terms of implementation, maintenance and software updates. We present the results of implementing one of these policies in the warehouse of a large cosmetics firm.
Internacional
Si
JCR del ISI
Si
Título de la revista
European Journal of Operational Research
ISSN
0377-2217
Factor de impacto JCR
2,038
Información de impacto
Volumen
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2013.12.045
Número de revista
236
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126
Hasta la página
134
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Cuartil: Q1 (mitad superior)

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Participantes
  • Autor: Harwin de Vries Econometric Institute, Erasmus University Rotterdam
  • Autor: Ruth Carrasco Gallego UPM
  • Autor: Taoying Farenhorst-Yuan Econometric Institute, Erasmus University Rotterdam
  • Autor: Rommert Dekker Econometric Institute, Erasmus University Rotterdam

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