Simple Models and Insights for Warehouse Sizing

Cormier, Gilles; Gunn, Eldon A.

doi:10.2307/3010019

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“…The paper by Cormier and Gunn [5] is directly related to our work. They study the problem of jointly minimizing the inventory and the warehousing costs when building a warehouse.…”

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confidence: 90%

Warehouse sizing to minimize inventory and storage costs

Goh¹,

Ou²,

Teo³

2001

Naval Research Logistics

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This paper considers a warehouse sizing problem whose objective is to minimize the total cost of ordering, holding, and warehousing of inventory. Unlike typical economic lot sizing models, the warehousing cost structure examined here is not the simple unit rate type, but rather a more realistic step function of the warehouse space to be acquired. In the cases when only one type of stock-keeping unit (SKU) is warehoused, or when multiple SKUs are warehoused, but, with separable inventory costs, closed form solutions are obtained for the optimal warehouse size. For the case of multi-SKUs with joint inventory replenishment cost, a heuristic with a provable performance bound of 94% is provided.

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“…The paper by Cormier and Gunn [5] is directly related to our work. They study the problem of jointly minimizing the inventory and the warehousing costs when building a warehouse.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 90%

Warehouse sizing to minimize inventory and storage costs

Goh¹,

Ou²,

Teo³

2001

Naval Research Logistics

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“…Within such a prism, a great number of scientific works dealing with various aspects of warehouse design and control exist, discussing simple models from warehouse sizing (37 ) to software applications for decision aid in warehouse design (38). The reviews of Ashayeri and Gelders (39), Cormier and Gunn (40), and Rouwenhorst et al (41), which together address more than 200 references, provide a very useful guide on the subject.…”

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Overview of Air Cargo Terminal Design Aspects

Βallis

2007

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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Air cargo represents an increasingly significant share of the transport market. In addition to mail, express, and emergency cargoes, air transportation is being used for the new market niches of perishable commodities and just-in-time deliveries. The transport and processing of these cargoes is performed by a specialized system that includes dedicated loading units, transport modes, equipment, airport installations, and commercial organization. An overview of this system focuses on the design of airport cargo facilities, describes an analytical method that allows the sizing of storage facilities with low computational effort, and refers to modeling approaches (mainly simulation-based) that can be used for a detailed investigation of various air cargo terminal design aspects.

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“…The requirements in combination with the large number of feasible designs make warehouse design highly complex (17). A great number of scientific works dealing with various aspects of warehouse design and control exist; most discuss simple models from warehouse sizing (20) to software applications for decision aid in warehouse design (21). The reviews of Ashayeri and Gelders ( 22), Cormier and Gunn ( 16) and Rouwenhorst et al (17 ), which cite 90, 64, and 127 references, respectively (although certain overlaps exist), provide useful guides on the subject.…”

Section: Literature Review On Facility and Warehouse Designmentioning

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Freight Villages

Βallis

2006

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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Freight villages reflect a modern way of organizing logistics, transport, and goods distribution activities. Warehouses are a basic element in such building complexes, and their efficient planning and operation is essential for the viability of the system. Warehouse design requires a mixture of analytical skills and creativity. Although effort has been dedicated to defining a global methodological design framework, the most scientific papers on the subject address well-defined, isolated problems. A practitioner may notice, however, that many warehouses offering efficient, cost-effective services are in operation and that several warehouse design manuals exist that tackle aspects of design and operation. Investigating academic and pragmatic points of view, this paper is an attempt to present an overall view of the facility layout and warehouse design problem, and it introduces the analysis and results of the preliminary design phase of a new freight village where issues related to facilities layout, warehouse sizing, and rail connections have been considered.

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Simple Models and Insights for Warehouse Sizing

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