Roadmap to sustainable warehouse

Malinowska, Magdalena; Rzeczycki, Andrzej; Sowa, Mariusz

doi:10.1051/shsconf/20185701028

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“…They named the constructs as warehouse facility design, warehouse layout, inventory management, mechanical handling equipment, warehouse staff, warehouse operations, onsite facilities, and warehouse management system. Malinowska et al [40] defined criteria for warehouse assessment in regards to sustainable functioning, and created a roadmap to gain a better level of sustainable warehouse. The road map for each criterion contains activities to achieve better results of the evaluation criteria and advantages of their application.…”

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A New Sustainable Warehouse Management Approach for Workforce and Activities Scheduling

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Sustainable engineering is very important for logistics systems. Nowadays, sustainable warehouse management is a key factor in market success. Workforce fluctuation and inverting the number of customers’ demands make a lot of problems in distribution warehouses. This study addresses a sustainable approach for the workforce scheduling problem recognized in a real distribution warehouse. The problem arises from the high variability of demand for workers over one workday, which causes workforce surplus in some periods of the workday and shortages in others. Engineering managers of the distribution warehouse already use different full-time and part-time shifts, and schedule workers on different activities, but they still have significant workforce surpluses or shortages in some periods. This study proposes the scheduling of activities’ execution together with workers to face that variability and decrease the cost of the workforce. This idea comes from the fact that some activities in a distribution warehouse can be done in a specific time period after the need for them occurs. In this way, the variability of demand for workers can be decreased, and a lower workforce cost may be ensured. Based on this idea, the entire problem is modeled as integer linear programming. The real example of the problem is solved, and the proposed model is tested on randomly generated instances of the problem in Python by means of the PuLP linear programming package. The results indicate different positive effects in the manner of sustainable warehouse management: lower workforce costs, time savings, better utilization of all types of resources and equipment, increased employee satisfaction, and so on. For even 61% of instances of the introduced problem, the obtained cost of the workforce is lower by more than 20% if activities’ executions are scheduled together with employees.

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“…sustainable warehousing. Sustainable warehousing is an approach of maximising the efficiency and effectiveness of warehouse operations in such a way that the firm's economic objectives can be reached, without negative impact on the surrounding environment and society (Malinowska et al, 2018). Sustainable warehousing is indispensable to reduce carbon footprints, enhance a firm's brand image in public, improve international benchmarking, ensure adherence to local government policies and regulation, and most importantly, satisfy the increasing public pressure for socially and environmentally friendly business operations (Mohan Kumar et al, 2017;Winkelhaus and Grosse, 2020).…”

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Industry 4.0 technologies and sustainable warehousing: a systematic literature review and future research agenda

Ali

Phan

2022

IJLM

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PurposeRobust and efficient warehouse management is pivotal to the success of contemporary logistics and business productivity. Given the recent technological revolutions and the rising pressure for sustainable warehouse activities, the recent literature continues to grow on Industry 4.0 technologies and sustainable warehousing. Following this, the review aims to explore current state-of-the-art, knowledge development, the focus of research, methodological development and knowledge gaps for more impactful future research on this important yet underexplored topic.Design/methodology/approachA widely accepted systematic literature review (SLR) methodology was employed on a sample of 46 articles retrieved from multiple search queries in the three large databases: Scopus, Web of Science and Google Scholar.FindingsThe authors’ analysis unveils several interesting findings: the positive linkage between various Industry 4.0 technologies and the three main pillars (economic, social, environmental) of sustainable warehousing; the paucity of large scale empirical research, specifically in the context of COVID-19; imbalance amid studies on three main aspects of warehouse sustainability; partial application of Industry 4.0 technologies; and disproportion in scholarly focus between numerous warehouse activities and Industry 4.0 technologies.Practical implicationsThe authors integrate research findings from a pool of studies, thereby improving the understanding of practitioners on how different Industry 4.0 technologies relate to sustainable warehousing.Originality/valueTo the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first SLR at the intersection of Industry 4.0 technologies and sustainable warehousing. Our review expands the existing knowledge base, devises a conceptual framework and suggests avenues for fruitful future research on this emerging area.

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“…As a storage facility and center for distribution and logistics service, a warehouse is utilized for many functions [9]. A green warehouse is one that synchronizes its organizational, technological, economic and social functions and its care for the environment [14].…”

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“…Green warehousing is a central part of the sustainable supply chain operations [5]. However, the development of a green warehouse is very demanding since the equilibrium among environment, economic, and social aspects must be sustained [14].…”

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Green Warehousing Practices in the Philippines

Castillo

2022

IGTJ

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Green practice is a worldwide policy and everybody is concerned with sustainable development. This study assessed the green warehousing (GWH) practices in the Philippines and its sustainability dimensions. It utilized a quantitative descriptive-survey approach with questionnaire for data collection. The sample consists of 48 warehouses with warehouse managers as respondents. Statistical tests used were frequency and percentage, mean and standard deviation, Kruskal-Wallis H-Test, and Mann-Whitney U-Test. Results showed most of participating warehouses are located in Parañaque, corporate-owned, small enterprises, operating for 15 years or less, with less than 100 employees, and private. Results further revealed that GWH practices on inventory management and operations were almost always practiced while those on facility design, layout, mechanical handling equipment, staff, and warehouse management system (WMS) were often practiced. Environment, social, and economic GWH practices are also often practiced. Top GWH practices are mostly economic and some social while bottom GWH practices are mostly environmental. Significant differences on GWH practices were found on inventory management, staff, WMS, and social dimension when grouped to location; on WMS when grouped to operation years; and on facility design, environment, and social dimension when grouped to nature of service. These findings may guide warehouse managers in enhancing their GWH practices as they gear towards attaining sustainability in support to the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals.

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Roadmap to sustainable warehouse

Cited by 9 publications

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A New Sustainable Warehouse Management Approach for Workforce and Activities Scheduling

A New Sustainable Warehouse Management Approach for Workforce and Activities Scheduling

Industry 4.0 technologies and sustainable warehousing: a systematic literature review and future research agenda

Green Warehousing Practices in the Philippines

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