Optimal unit-load warehouse designs for single-command operations

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 459-475

  Öztürkoǧlu, Ömer ^a   Gue, Kevin R ^b   Meller, Russell D ^c  

^a YASAR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Arkansas   (United States)

Author keywords

Aisle design; Single command operations; Unit load; Warehouse design

Indexed keywords

AISLE DESIGN; CONTINUOUS SPACES; DISCRETE MODELS; OPTIMAL DESIGN; SINGLE-COMMAND OPERATIONS; UNIT-LOAD; WAREHOUSE DESIGN;

INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; WAREHOUSES;

DESIGN;

EID: 84859328824     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: 15458830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0740817X.2011.636793     Document Type: Article

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