Simulation-based personnel planning for materials handling at a cross-docking center under retail distribution environment

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2414-2425

  Liu, Yan ^a   Takakuwa, Soemon ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSSDOCKING; DIFFERENT PROCESS; LABOUR-INTENSIVE; OPERATOR SKILLS; RETAIL DISTRIBUTION; SIMULATION-BASED; STEPWISE PROCEDURE;

DOCKING; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MANAGEMENT; MANAGERS; MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT; PERSONNEL; PLANT LAYOUT;

MATERIALS HANDLING;

EID: 77951601237     PISSN: 08917736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2009.5429714     Document Type: Conference Paper

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