... collaboration Warehousing Qualitative interviews Typology Europe Logistics clusters Logistics value creation Major corporations like Wal-Mart, Danone, and Carrefour have integrated pooled warehouses (PWs) into their supply chains to reduce logistics costs and environmental impacts (Ballot...

...Martina Baglio; Martina Farioli; Fabrizio Dallari Purpose The logistics sector significantly contributes to greenhouse gas emissions, with warehousing activities responsible for 13% of the sector’s emissions. Despite the growing focus on sustainability, limited research explicitly addresses green...

...-use rights only Europe Warehousing Retail logistics Quantitative survey In the context of order picking as the process of retrieving products from storage locations based on customer orders, it is the backdrop of this paper that it remains a laborious and cost-intensive process...

...-darmstadt.de 31 03 2023 28 08 2023 13 09 2023 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Warehousing Human factors Hybrid order picking systems Human robot collaboration In the present paper, we attempt to address...

...Sara Perotti; Roman Felipe Bastidas Santacruz; Peik Bremer; Jakob Emanuel Beer Purpose In the last decade, the Industry 4.0 paradigm had started to rapidly expand to the logistics domain. However, Logistics 4.0 is still in an early adoption stage: some areas such as warehousing are still exploring...

... on Industry 4.0 technologies and sustainable warehousing. Following this, the review aims to explore current state-of-the-art, knowledge development, the focus of research, methodological development and knowledge gaps for more impactful future research on this important yet underexplored topic. Design...

... at the problem, and in particular illustrate the inventory holding cost rate computation, when different kind of warehousing systems are applied. Design/methodology/approach – A multiple case study analysis is here developed and supported by a methodological framework directly derived from the working...

...Divesh Ojha; Rahul A. Gokhale Purpose The purpose of this paper is to seek to develop psychometrically validated scale for logistical business continuity planning (LBCP) construct. Design/methodology/approach Using survey data from 106 firms in transportation and warehousing industry...

... transport Warehousing Freight forwarding Ports and maritime transport have existed for some thousands of years and have developed in line with the evolution of international trade which has been inherent in shaping the modern world. Some 6 billion tonnes of freight moves by maritime transport each...

...Peter Baker Purpose The aim of this paper is to explore the role of inventory and warehousing within international supply chains and, from this, to develop an exploratory framework that assists understanding in the area. Design/methodology/approach The research is based on case studies of 13...

... of such adoption. This paper examines whether empirical data support the hype on RFID. Design/methodology/approach A survey was sent to Warehousing Education and Research Council (WERC) members at manufacturing firms, third party warehousing/logistics providers, wholesaler/distributors, and retail firms...

... accuracy. The implications for the management and design of supply chains are discussed. Chaos Warehousing Costs Supply‐chain management © MCB UP Limited 1998 ...

... are presented. © MCB UP Limited 1996 Distribution Logistics Performance measurement Process control Customer service Inventory Warehousing Transport ...

... control points for management to use to improve the overall process performance. This article describes the V‐A‐T analysis and applies the method to three different types of warehouse facilities. © MCB UP Limited 1993 Warehousing Inventory management Productivity rate Process efficiency ...

... is considered “best practice” in outsourcing. There is ample evidence that some of these views on outsourcing are changing and will continue to change during the 1990s. This paper offers eight central propositions on logistics outsourcing with special emphasis on warehousing. The paper briefly reviews selected...

... retail logistics. The factors found are warehousing/transportation, supplier performance/communications, internal information systems, activity levelling and inventory/cost reduction. The extent to which many supplier evaluation criteria are used is shown to vary with some of these five underlying...