Scheduling the internal operations in Distribution Centers with buffer constraints

2010 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 75-80

  Pia Fanti, Maria ^a   Stecco, Gabriella ^b   Ukovich, Walter ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUFFER CAPACITY; BUFFER CONSTRAINTS; DE-CONSOLIDATION; DISTRIBUTION CENTERS; INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMMING FORMULATION; INTERNAL OPERATIONS; OPERATION TIME; OPTIMAL SEQUENCE; THREE PHASIS;

INTEGER PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; WAREHOUSES;

DISTRIBUTION OF GOODS;

EID: 78149437953     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/COASE.2010.5584048     Document Type: Conference Paper

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