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Human Resource Outsourcing In Health Care: Strategic, Cost, And Technical Considerations, Mark P. Brown, Ross L. Fink

Southern Business Review

Mark P. Brown, PhD., is associate professor of management, Department of Business Management and Administration, Bradley University, Peoria, IL 61625.

Ross L. Fink, Ph.D., is professor of operations management, Department of Business Management and Administration, Bradley University, Peoria, IL 61625.

Economic And Performance Analysis Of Dual-Bay Vertical Lift Modules, Fabio Sgarbossa, Martina Calzavara, Alessandro Persona

15th IMHRC Proceedings (Savannah, Georgia. USA – 2018)

Warehouse picking is one of the most time and cost consuming activities in a warehouse, often requiring the presence of human operators, who travel within the aisles to retrieve the items needed by the customers. Several studies demonstrate that the travelling activity can represent even the 50% of the total picking time, with a subsequent creation of a separate storage and picking area for small objects. In the last years, new solutions for order picking systems have been developed, especially for small items. One of these solutions requires Vertical Lift Modules (VLMs), storage columns with extractable trays. In this paper, …