Allocating Items to an Automated Storage and Retrieval System
- 1 March 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in IIE Transactions
- Vol. 22 (1), 7-14
- https://doi.org/10.1080/07408179008964152
Abstract
To reduce material handling costs, distribution centers purchase automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS). It is often the case that the capacity of the AS/RS is insufficient to store all items. The distribution center must then decide which items to assign to the AS/RS and in what quantities they will be stored. In this paper, we develop a heuristic procedure to solve this problem. A priori and a posteriori tests of the data for the optimality of this heuristic procedure are provided. The proposed procedure is testedwith data gathered fr oma naval supply center.Keywords
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