| dc.description.abstract | In the new global economy, a warehouse or distribution center operation has become a central issue for manufacturing field, especially car industry. The core function of a warehouse includes temporary storage and protection of goods as well as providing value added service such as fulfillment of individual customer orders, packaging of goods, after sales services, quality inspections, and manufacturing assembly. In this thesis, we analyze the warehouse which performs the above function. The warehouse is divided into several functional areas including cross-docking, reserve storage area, and forward area. The objective is to minimize the total material-handling cost by jointly determine the functional area sizes and the product allocation. This thesis presents a mathematical model to solve this problem by CPLEX programming to find the best flow for each material. A sample data in warehouse for a company constructed. The result after running the model with realistic and experimental data collection is shown in a table. However, the scope of this paper is limited because of only focusing on internal warehouse procedure. In addition, the quantity of parts is so various so taking the realistic data in the company is just comparative.
Keywords: Warehouse design, Product allocation, Functional area size and Material handling cost problem, Material flows, Mixed Integer Programming. | en_US |
