Packaging and handling - Handling

6 important questions on Packaging and handling - Handling

Which developments in handling technology and equipment offer the potential to substantially improve logistics productivity?

- Basic handling considerations: Mechanized handling includes a lot of labour costs. Automated systems attempt to minimize labour by substituting equipment capital investment.
-  Mechanized systems: these systems employ a wide range of handling equipment (lift trucks, towlines, tractor trailers, conveyors, carousels)
- Semiautomated systems (AGV, Sortation, Robotics, Live racks)
- Automated systems (Order selection process, automated storage/ retrieval)
- Information-directed systems (RF Wireles: WIFI, RFID, Light directed (LDO))
- Special handling considerations (E-fulfilment, environmental concern, regulatory environment, returns processing)

Picking solutions: what's the advantage of broken case picking? (lecture)

Picker – to – parts carts (amazon prime): advantage: items are stored in many different places. Cookie is same stored at different storage locations:
reason: shorter distance + less congestion

Why employ more than 1 solution for sorting? (lecture)

Warehouses have many types of products (weight, height, carrying or not, demand (slow vs fast moving), delivering time)
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Which warehouse process is the most expensive? (lecture)

Picking process: can make up as much as 55% of the warehousing cost:
50% of these costs come from travelling: no value adding process: waste. If we can eliminate travel, you should!
20% of costs come from search: solution is for example location detector

What are criteria for equipment selection?

1.Investment cost
2.Maximum throughput
3.Storage capacity
4.Response time
5.Order fulfilment quality (right time, right amount, right order)
6.Space requirements (lights, working conditions, product condition requirements)
7.Level of automation (level of robots vs humans working together)

What are issues with employing humans in warehouses?

1.Long walking distances as much as 17 km
2.High productivity demands: an order every 33 seconds
3.Poorly paid
4.Largely temporary, flexible contracts
5.Risk of strike at the most sensitive times
6.Shortage of workers (black Friday)
--> always consider robots when it makes work of people better!

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