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Modeling and Designing a Cross Dock Warehouse Considering Space and Retailer’s Satisfaction

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
maryam shoaee 1
Parvaneh Samouei 2
1 دپارتمان مهندسی‌صنایع، دانشکده مهندسی، دانشگاه بوعلی‌سینا همدان، ایران
2 Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran
10.22034/bs.2021.246804
Abstract
Designing a warehouse entry system, layout, movement and removal of products from the warehouse is critical to maximizing productivity. The use of cross docking has become increasingly important to speed up warehouse operations. Cross docking is a distribution strategy that plays an important role in enhancing the efficiency of distribution networks and reducing customer response times. In loading and unloading products through cross dock warehouses, the products are unloaded by incoming trucks and with a slight delay and sometimes without any delays, they are loaded directly into the outgoing trucks in the temporary storage area. This article, deals with the modeling and design of a cross dock warehouse and the purpose is to determine the allocation of warehouse floor locations to retailers in order to minimize the distance traveled in the warehouse and the vacant space of the warehouse and also maximizing the satisfaction of retailers by considering their shipping priorities. Augmented Epsilon constraint method is used to solve the problem. Finally, ideas and suggestions are presented to develop the model.
 
 
Keywords
Cross Dock Warehouse / Layout / Augmented Epsilon Constraint / Retail Operations / Integer Programming
 
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Commercial Surveys
Volume 19, Issue 107 - Serial Number 107
May and June 2021
Pages 89-100

  • Receive Date 06 April 2020
  • Revise Date 24 August 2020
  • Accept Date 26 August 2020