... may be seen at Link to the terms of the CC BY 4.0 licence . Sustainability Warehousing Logistics management Spatial planning Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek NWA.1418.22.023 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003246 Globally, inventories have been...

... and developing aligned configurations. This study is original in the way it provides in-depth, case study findings about contextual factors and their influence on omnichannel warehouse configuration. Omnichannel Retail logistics Warehousing Material handling Configuration Contextual factors...

... applications that suit the warehouse type and operation. Building on the contingency theory, the authors also described a conceptual framework for guiding future relevant research on warehousing. Practical implications Video technology provides an opportunity to improve efficiency and cut costs...

... a sensitivity analysis in Section 6 and give a cost analysis in Section 7. In a follow‐up paper, we present an optimisation model for timing shipments in the floating‐stock concept (Pourakbar et al., 2007). Supply chain management Distribution and inventory management Warehousing...

...Hokey Min Purpose This paper seeks to illustrate the successful development of a warehousing decision support system (WDSS) that aided the Buckeye Cable Vision Incorporated (BCV) in making its strategic warehouse expansion and re‐warehousing decisions. The WDSS utilized by the BCV can be a blue...

.... This offers features of a surrogate driver, which means a driver that is not descriptive of an activity, though closely correlated and easy to measure (Raffish and Turney, 1991). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Cost accounting Warehousing Distribution management Automation Data...

... costs and warehousing costs will vary across companies, the cost represented here may be used as a gauge for evaluating systems with cost structures in the vicinity of those for the company represented in this paper. Additionally, the model is amenable to substitution of other firms' cost structures...

... Warehousing Classification Storage systems The focus of this research is to evaluate the performance of a class‐based storage (CBS) policy. Similar to the VBS policy, CBS ranks all SKUs according to pick activity. The SKUs are then partitioned into several storage classes and randomly assigned...

...Nynke Faber; René (Marinus) B.M. de Koster; Steef L. van de Velde Warehousing is becoming more and more a critical activity in the supply chain to outperform competitors on customer service, lead times, and costs. However, if warehousing is to be a source of competitive advantage...

...Peter van Laarhoven; Magnus Berglund; Melvyn Peters Discusses the results of a survey among shippers in several European countries involved in outsourcing their transport, warehousing and other logistics activities. The survey, which is a joint initiative of the universities of Cranfield, Eindhoven...

... UP Limited 2000 Distributionzing Storage systems Heuristics Logistics Warehousing To run a successful warehouse today is a great challenge. The challenges include diverse customer requirements, warehouse space utilization and stock level management, supply chain management, high...

... data. This research provides additional examples to further validate the practical usefulness of the turnover curve. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Logistics Supply chain Inventory Warehousing Are our inventory policies producing the desired inventory turnover? How much inventory...

... on the logistics system, which at the same time may constitute a high percentage of the total cost of the product. Cooke (1996) considers that there are three emerging technologies with a future in the warehousing field, namely, speech‐recognition systems (to avoid keypad entry by the system operatives), touch...

.... Internet Stock control Supply chain Telecommunications Warehousing This article describes concepts for “virtual logistics”. With virtual logistics the physical and information aspects of logistics operations are treated independently from each other. In such operations, ownership and control...

... Cluster analysis Food industry Location Warehousing Gross production in the food industry in Spain, which has a workforce of 400,000, was estimated in 1994 at 6,372 billion pesetas, an increase of 1 per cent over 1993. Because of stiff competition in the European market, the problem of the best...

... and Lagrangean relaxation. Computational results of this algorithm are encouraging. © MCB UP Limited 1993 Algorithms Location Logistics Warehousing THE MULTIPRODUCT WAREHOUSE LOCATION PROBLEM 3 Outlines a powerful tool for determining an optimal warehouse location configuration. The Multiproduct...

... to a large extent in the warehousing function; in fact, warehousing personnel,working with customers, contributed to the development of their firms′EDI systems. While EDI use was strong on the outbound side, its use at the warehouse‐supplier interface was relatively non‐existent. For similar communications...

...Dale S. Rogers; Patricia J. Daugherty; Theodore P. Stank Reports a recent survey of warehousing firms which examined the extent of involvement in electronic data interchange (EDI) and the impact which EDI has had on the firms′ operations and service capabilities. Warehousing firms providing EDI...

... closer integration between functions and closer attention to distribution. Distribution Food industry Manufacturing Customer service Physical distribution management Retail trade Warehousing 16 IJPD & LM 22,2 H ow one old-established food-manufacturing firm is facing up to the distribution...

... a discounted cash‐flow analysis, increases the private ware‐house′s internal rate of return by approximately 10 per cent. Labour costs Learning curves Logistics Regression analysis Warehousing 4 IJPD & LM 22,9 A n exploration to discover whether a learning curve describes how warehouse costs change...