| dc.description.abstract | The order picking process from the warehouse perspective is well known as the most labor
intensive and costly activity, specifically, it is a reasonable objective to implement a
continuous improvement. The appropriate choice of storage assignment policies is
combined with various popularity factors in warehouse including routing policies, batching
algorithms, size and layout system, products characteristics, etc. which is literally a possible
solution to tackle the problem of order picking process. This study inspired by the case of
Hung Tri company’s warehouse in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, applies many kinds of
knowledge from industrial engineering field such as simulation process design, facility
planning, statistics and probability analysis as well as inventory management. “Which
storage assignment policy is to minimize an order picking distance and improve picking
efficiency?” is a primary question that this thesis aims to discover through a simulation
model method of a real case regarding storage assignment problem of a multi-level rack
warehouse. Several cases and experiments are proposed by researcher to present the ideas
of improving the disadvantages as well as eliminate weaknesses in Hung Tri warehouse
current operations. As a result, travel distance and order retrieval time, as well as workforce
utilization, was identified and progressed as the key factors to measure the efficiency. | en_US |
