Time-based models for unit load warehouse control
by Ahmed Hassan Aly; Nadeepa Wickramage; William G. Ferrell Jr.
International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering (IJISE), Vol. 36, No. 4, 2020

Abstract: Many facilities in supply chains have pallets and containers that can be stacked. Stacking containers during material handling can improve the efficiency of warehouse operations; however, this has largely been ignored by researchers. A time-based model is proposed to generate routes that material handling vehicles use for picking and storing containers that includes the ability to stack pallets during transport and to use multi-command operations. For warehouses that store and pick millions of containers each year, small improvements in each trip can have a dramatic cumulative effect on the annual cost savings.

Online publication date: Mon, 04-Jan-2021

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