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Parameterizing Analytical Models To Support An Empirically Based Warehouse Design Methodology, Lisa Thomas
Parameterizing Analytical Models To Support An Empirically Based Warehouse Design Methodology, Lisa Thomas
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Research in the area of warehouse design is characterized by a myriad of analytical models that address one, typically small and isolated, area of the warehouse. These models, although important in gaining insight into one question of warehouse design, are of limited value when one considers the larger question of overall warehouse design. Thus, research in the area of overall warehouse design typically consists of procedure-driven processes based on qualitative factors and not the quantifiable results of analytical models.
In contrast, practitioners have significant empirical data related to how a design alternative performs in an industry, a company, or a …