1. Warehouse Management Luis Felipe Cardona

6. Main Topics 1.For specific operating conditions, find the optimal layout. 2.Design the detailed layout.

7. Warehouse Layout Unit LoadOrder Picking Cross Aisles

8. How to pick a Layout?

9. How to calculate the expected value of travel ? Unit Load

12. Calulate the with discrete representation

13. Distance function

14. Calulate the with discrete representation Expected value

15. Examples

16. Some assumptions 1.Each openning can be selected randomly 2. The behavior of the variables in continuous domain are proportional to the behavior of the variables in discrete domain Continuous variableDiscrete variable

17. Continuous variable

18. Bi-dimensional

19. Calculate the

21. The optimal design

22. Main Topics 1.For specific operating conditions, find the optimal layout. a)Create a distance function for the operating conditions. b)Write the function for the expected value of the distance function. c)Use the expected value function to find optimal values for the parameters of the design.

23. How to design a Layout?

27. Main Topics 2. Design the detailed layout. a)Create a system of equations according to the desired shape for the warehouse. b)Solve the system. Find the unknowns.

28. Examples