Abstract

The paper describes a dynamic variant of the traditional ABC storage policy. The variant is to be used in manual order picking warehouses where SKUs experience a rather unstable demand. Its objective is to reduce the order picking time. It mainly consists in shifting items between the storage areas A, B and C according to the way their daily number of order lines changes. A few case studies based on computer simulations have shown that this variant can yield interesting time savings if its parameters are chosen with care. One of those case studies is presented in this paper. Because of the pioneering nature of this variant, some ideas for further research are also sketched.

Details

Title
DYNAMIC ABC STORAGE POLICY IN ERRATIC DEMAND ENVIRONMENTS
Author
Benjamin, Pierre; Vannieuwenhuyse, Bart; Dominanta, Denis; Hendrik Van Dessel
Pages
1-12
Section
Articles
Publication year
2003
Publication date
Jun 2003
Publisher
Universitas Kristen Petra / Petra Christian University
ISSN
14112485
e-ISSN
20877439
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Indonesian; English
ProQuest document ID
2276843626
Copyright
© 2003. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.