R etailers must constantly strive for excellence in operations; extremely narrow profit margins leave little room for waste and inefficiency. This article reports a retailer’s challenge to balance transportation, shelf space, and inventory costs. A retailer sells multiple products with stochastic demand. Trucks are dispatched from a warehouse and arrive at a store with a constant lead time. Eac...

We develop a decision support system, based on the data warehousing approach. We define a conceptual object-oriented data warehouse model, which describes the data warehouse as a central repository of relevant, complex and temporal data. Our model integrates three concepts: warehouse object, environment and warehouse class. Each warehouse object representing a source entity, is composed of one ...

Third-party warehousing logistics has an important role in the development of external logistics. At present, the third-party logistics in our country is still a new industry, the accounting system has not yet been established, the current financial accounting system of third-party warehousing logistics is mainly in the traditional way of thinking, and only able to provide the total cost inform...

In this paper, we present a new algorithm for routing order pickers in manual warehouses and optimizing the total distance covered. The proposed approach is an adaptation of the recent water wave optimization (WWO) algorithm, a nature-inspired algorithm based on the shallow water wave theory. The algorithm is tested on a rectangular 1-block warehouse, with 12 aisles and 45 storage locations per...

Optimization means using resources and existing technology at the best possible way. Better planning and its execution results in optimization of many problems. Quantitative models and mathematical tools such as linear programming allows for better result. We can use modern computing equipment for this purpose. Nowadays various problems of operational planning for transportation problems are so...