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Design, storage location allocation and routing: a comprehensive comparison

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  • Mohammadnaser Ansari
  • Mohsen Nikfar
  • Jeffrey S. Smith

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With the current disturbance in the supply chain and sudden shift towards e-commerce with the onset and continued impact of COVID-19, warehousing and warehouse efficiency is once again in the spotlight. Analysing the performance of various methods and approaches in designing, planning, and operating a warehouse has been a subject of interest for researchers. This paper investigates the effect of four main factors in warehouse operations on order-picking total fulfilment time. The number of cross-aisles, storage location assigning approaches, location ranking methods, and routing methods have been examined using a real order data sample. Later, their effect on the order picking time in a traditional parallel aisle warehouse has been investigated. The authors also performed a full analysis of variance (ANOVA) and sensitivity analysis to find the best combination of design, storage location assigning problem (SLAP), and routing, for a set of order data.

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  • Mohammadnaser Ansari & Mohsen Nikfar & Jeffrey S. Smith, 2023. "Design, storage location allocation and routing: a comprehensive comparison," International Journal of Business Performance and Supply Chain Modelling, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 14(3), pages 301-327.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijbpsc:v:14:y:2023:i:3:p:301-327
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