In this paper, the cost function for a three-echelon inventory system with two warehouses is derived. Transportation times are constant and retailers face independent Poisson demand. Replenishments are one-for-one. The lead time of a retailer is determined not only by the constant transportation time but also by the random delay incurred due to the availability of stock at the warehouses. We co...

It is often taken for granted that products will be available to buy in the shops. The cornucopia of goods that is available in a hypermarket or a department store sometimes means that we forget how the products were supplied. We expect our lettuces to be fresh, the new Playstation to be available on launch day and our clothes to be in good condition and ready to wear. With the introduction of ...

In this paper, the author designs an e-commerce transport system, which covers locations of producers’ facilities, distribution warehouses, and business customers deliveries among them. The study aims to identify best for warehouses increase efficiency in multi-stage systems. To reach goal, revises distance metrics suggests a methodological framework useful warehouse location selection practica...

The distribution warehouse is located between manufacturers and customers. Storage facilities are designed around four primary functions: holding, consolidation, break-bulk, and mixing. In addition, materials handling within a storage-handling system reduces to three primary activities: loading and unloading, movement to and from storage, and order filling. Generally, it is more difficult to bu...

Unit-load warehouses receive and ship material or products in single discrete units, usually as pallet loads. They are commonly found in industry; examples include third-party transshipment warehouses, grocery and beverage distributors, appliance manufacturers and import distribution centers. Many break-bulk facilities, which break down a pallet into smaller volume packages for shipment, also h...

The data warehouse (DWH) is usually presented as a centralized database. In this paper, we propose a new approach to manage data storage and distribution in a data warehouse environment. This approach deals with the dynamic data distribution of the DWH on a set of servers. The data distribution that we consider is different from the “classical” one which depends on the data use. The distributio...