In this study, a multi-item economic order quantity model with shortage under vendor managed inventory policy in a single vendor single buyer supply chain is developed. This model explicitly includes warehouse capacity and delivery constraints, bounds order quantity, and limits the number of pallets. Not only the demands are considered imprecise, but also resources such as available storage and...

Inventory shrinkage is a common problem in the management of returnable containers. RFID-based container tracking systems have been proposed as a possible solution. Benefits of RFID-based tracking of returnable transport items such as pallets, kegs and boxes are documented in several case studies, but have so far hardly been analyzed from a theoretical perspective. In this article, we analyze t...

This paper gives an overview of a participatory ergonomic intervention aimed at reducing low back pain cases in the dispatch department of a catalogue and e-commerce retail company. Based on the findings of the ergonomic analysis and design committee, the company's own employees redesigned the assembly line's layout. As a result of these changes two job tasks that involved manual material handl...

Unit-load warehouses are used to store items—typically pallets—that can be stowed or retrieved in a single trip. In the traditional, ubiquitous design, storage racks are arranged to create parallel picking aisles, which force workers to travel rectilinear distances to picking locations. We consider the problem of arranging aisles in new ways to reduce the cost of travel within these warehouses....

The Economic Production Quantity (EPQ) is one of the most applicable model in production and inventory control environments. Like other classical production and inventory control models, it is derived based upon assumptions that cause limited real-world applications. Continuous and constant-rate delivery of orders, infinite availability of warehouse spaces, and applicability on a single product...

O contexto atual de elevada competitividade impõe que as organizações empresariais otimizem seus processos. layout é extrema importância neste cenário, visto interfere no aprimoramento e eficiência dos processos produtivos. Em meio a esse constante aprimoramento, surge produção enxuta, mais conhecida como Lean Manufacturing. presente estudo tem objetivo proposta um novo em uma empresa pallets i...

Current pallet design methodology frequently underestimates the load capacity of by assuming payload is uniformly distributed and flexible. By considering effect characteristics their interactions during design, structure pallets can be optimized raw material consumption reduced. The objective this study was to develop a full description how such affect bridging on unit loads stacked corrugated...