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Title:A new sustainable warehouse management approach for workforce and activities scheduling
Authors:ID Popović, Vlado (Author)
ID Kilibarda, Milorad J. (Author)
ID Andrejić, Milan (Author)
ID Jereb, Borut (Author)
ID Dragan, Dejan (Author)
Files:.pdf Popovic-2021-A_New_Sustainable_Warehouse_Manag.pdf (1,28 MB)
MD5: 65288FA425E4E96A309F43CA9EA9D42A
 
URL https://doi.org/10.3390/su13042021
 
Language:English
Work type:Scientific work
Typology:1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:FL - Faculty of Logistic
Abstract:Sustainable engineering is very important for logistics systems. Nowadays, sustainable warehouse management is a key factor in market success. Workforce fluctuation and inverting the number of customers' demands make a lot of problems in distribution warehouses. This study addresses a sustainable approach for the workforce scheduling problem recognized in a real distribution warehouse. The problem arises from the high variability of demand for workers over oneworkday, which causes workforce surplus in some periods of the workday and shortages in others. Engineering managers of the distribution warehouse already use different full-time and part-timeshifts, and schedule workers on different activities, but they still have significant workforce surplusesor shortages in some periods. This study proposes the scheduling of activities' execution together with workers to face that variability and decrease the cost of the workforce. This idea comes from the fact that some activities in a distribution warehouse can be done in a specific time period after the need for them occurs. In this way, the variability of demand for workers can be decreased, and alower workforce cost may be ensured. Based on this idea, the entire problem is modeled as integer linear programming. The real example of the problem is solved, and the proposed model is tested on randomly generated instances of the problem in Python by means of the PuLP linear programming package. The results indicate different positive effects in the manner of sustainable warehouse management: lower workforce costs, time savings, better utilization of all types of resources andequipment, increased employee satisfaction, and so on. For even 61% of instances of the introduced problem, the obtained cost of the workforce is lower by more than 20% if activities' executions arescheduled together with employees.
Keywords:workforce, activities planning, schedule, optimization, warehouses, sustainable warehouse management, logistics
Publication status:Published
Publication version:Version of Record
Submitted for review:28.12.2020
Article acceptance date:08.02.2021
Publication date:13.02.2021
Publisher:MDPI
Year of publishing:2021
Number of pages:Str. 1-19
Numbering:Letn. 13, št. 4, št. članka 2021
PID:20.500.12556/DKUM-90958 New window
UDC:338
ISSN on article:2071-1050
COBISS.SI-ID:53206787 New window
DOI:10.3390/su13042021 New window
Publication date in DKUM:11.10.2024
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Title:Sustainability
Shortened title:Sustainability
Publisher:MDPI
ISSN:2071-1050
COBISS.SI-ID:5324897 New window

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License:CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Link:http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Description:This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
Licensing start date:13.02.2021

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Language:Slovenian
Keywords:delovna sila, načrtovanje aktivnosti, razpored, optimizacija, skladišča, trajnostno upravljanje skladišč, logistika


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