Original scientific paper
Exploiting Fashion Features for Floor Storage Systems in the Shoe Industry
Antonella Meneghetti
orcid.org/0000-0002-9475-0763
; DIEG – Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica, Gestionale e Meccanica, University of Udine, Italy
Abstract
Floor storage systems are used in the shoe industry to store fashion products of seasonal collections of low quantity and high variety. Since space is valuable and order picking must be sped up, stacking of shoeboxes should be optimized. The problem is modelled based on shoe features (model, type, colour, and size) and with the goal of forcing similar boxes into locations close to each other in order to improve workers’ ability to retrieve orders fast. The model is encoded in Constraint Logic Programming and solved comparing different strategies, also using Large Neighbourhood Search. Simulation experiments are run to evaluate how the stacking model affects picking performance.
Keywords
Fashion shoe industry; floor storage systems; Storage Location Assignment; Constraint Logic Programming; Large Neighbourhood Search
Hrčak ID:
160909
URI
Publication date:
1.1.2013.
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