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Includes original applications of advanced models and methods useful for practitioners in industry
Gives easy access to the problems related to storage and warehousing in industrial systems
Provides case studies rarely presented in the literature
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Manual Storage Systems
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Front Matter
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Manual storage systems
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Automated Storage Systems
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Automated storage systems
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Applications and Case Studies
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About this book
With increased globalization and offshore sourcing, global supply chain management is becoming an important issue for many businesses as it involves a company's worldwide interests and suppliers rather than simply a local or national orientation. The storage systems significantly affect the level of quality of products, the customer’s service level, and the global logistic cost. The mission of warehousing systems design, control and optimization is to effectively ship products in the right place, at the right time, and in the right quantity (i.e. in any configuration) without any damages or alterations, and minimizing costs.
Warehousing in the Global Supply Chain presents and discusses a set of models, tools and real applications, including a few case studies rarely presented with a sufficient detail by other literature, to illustrate the main challenges in warehousing activities. This includes all warehouse operations (from receiving to shipping), problems and issues (e.g. storage allocation, assignment, layout, vehicle routing) for industrial and service systems as parts of global supply chains.
Advanced and effective solving methods are also illustrated and the discussed case studies help the reader to quickly apply the proposed models and techniques/algorithms. Warehousing in the Global Supply Chain is useful to managers and practitioners of industry and service sectors for the determination and modeling of the critical issues concerning warehousing systems planning and design. It is a valuable source of information for engineering students, doctoral and post-doctoral students, and researchers of academic institutions who are searching for advanced modeling approaches and solving techniques to complex logistic decision making problems.
Warehousing in the Global Supply Chain presents and discusses a set of models, tools and real applications, including a few case studies rarely presented with a sufficient detail by other literature, to illustrate the main challenges in warehousing activities. This includes all warehouse operations (from receiving to shipping), problems and issues (e.g. storage allocation, assignment, layout, vehicle routing) for industrial and service systems as parts of global supply chains.
Advanced and effective solving methods are also illustrated and the discussed case studies help the reader to quickly apply the proposed models and techniques/algorithms. Warehousing in the Global Supply Chain is useful to managers and practitioners of industry and service sectors for the determination and modeling of the critical issues concerning warehousing systems planning and design. It is a valuable source of information for engineering students, doctoral and post-doctoral students, and researchers of academic institutions who are searching for advanced modeling approaches and solving techniques to complex logistic decision making problems.
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From the reviews:
“Warehousing in the Global Supply Chain takes us through an almost chronological path in the development of warehouse operations and their positioning within the global supply chain. … the book provides an adequate introduction to enable the reader to further research the concepts discussed. … a valuable source of information for engineering, doctoral, and postdoctoral students, and researchers in academic institutions. I agree strongly with this and recommend the book as a reference to this audience.” (Bernard Stanley, Interfaces, Vol. 43 (6), November-December, 2013)Editors and Affiliations
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, Department of Industrial and Mechanical, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Riccardo Manzini
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Warehousing in the Global Supply Chain
Book Subtitle: Advanced Models, Tools and Applications for Storage Systems
Editors: Riccardo Manzini
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2274-6
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London Limited 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-2273-9Published: 05 January 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-6032-8Published: 22 February 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-2274-6Published: 04 January 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 486
Topics: Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing, Operations Management, Manufacturing, Machines, Tools, Processes, Operations Research/Decision Theory, Robotics and Automation