Lean strategies in healthcare aims to improve patient throughput, reducing medication errors, redesigning work flow, improving patient safety, and reducing cycle time but studies to improve healthcare’s warehouse operation was not common. Managing medical supplies has always been a priority due to demand uncertainties and the risk of shortages which would greatly affect patient safety. This stu...

This paper examines the cost-reduction effect of “postponed” routing decisions in a two-echelon supply chain. When a delivery vehicle leaves the warehouse with system replenishment quantities, it sequentially makes routing decisions to choose the next retailer to visit. To measure this effect this paper studies combined vehicle routing and inventoryallocation policies designed to minimize total...

In the supply chain, a warehouse is an essential component for linking the chain partners. It is necessary to allocate warehouse resources efficiently and effectively to enhance the productivity and reduce the operation costs of the warehouse. Therefore, warehouse management systems (WMSs) have been developed for handling warehouse resources and monitoring warehouse operations. However, it is d...

This paper describes the use of a spreadsheet based monte-carlo simulation tool to model a Melbourne based clothing manufacturer’s key inventory decisions for their AS/RS warehouse management system

The dynamic nature of today’s competitive markets compels organizations to an incessant reassessment in an effort to respond to continuous challenges. Therefore, warehouses as an important link in most supply chains, must be continually re-evaluated to ensure that they are consistent with both market’s demands and management’s strategies. A number of warehouse decision support models have been ...