A real-time warehouse operations planning system for small batch replenishment problems in production environment

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 8524-8537

  Poon, T C ^a   Choy, K L ^a   Chan, F T S ^a   Ho, G T S ^a   Gunasekaran, A ^b   Lau, H C W ^c   Chow, H K H ^d  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d MACAU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Macao)

Author keywords

Genetic algorithm (GA); Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology; Small batch replenishment problem

Indexed keywords

DAILY PRODUCTION; DELIVERY ROUTES; JUST IN TIME; MAKE TO ORDER; PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENTS; PRODUCTION FLOOR; PRODUCTION LINE; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID) TECHNOLOGY; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION TECHNOLOGY; REAL-TIME PRODUCTION; SHORT PERIODS; SIMULATION TESTS; SMALL BATCH REPLENISHMENT PROBLEM; WAREHOUSE OPERATION;

CRYPTOGRAPHY; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MANUFACTURE; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); RADIO WAVES; WAREHOUSES;

JUST IN TIME PRODUCTION;

EID: 79952452588     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.01.053     Document Type: Article

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