仓储管理及设计外文翻译（可编辑）_精品.doc

仓储管理及设计外文翻译 Warehouse Management and Design Material Source:Supply Chain Engineering Useful Methods and Techniques Author:Alexandre Dolgui and Jean-Marie Proth Many if not all goods pass though a warehouse at some stage. The main activity of a warehouse is material handling, but it may happen that some operations packaging, cleaning, assembling, painting, etc. are performed also during storage. These significant aspects should be included in the analyses of the warehouse systems. The chapter begins with a description of warehouse types and their usefulness. The operations performed and resources used are extensively studied. Special consideration is given to warehouse-management problems. Afterwards, the design stage is considered at length. The components of a warehouse are presented. In particular, storage in unit-load warehouses is covered. Then, the static warehouse-sizing problem is considered, modeled and solved. Later, a dynamic warehouse-sizing problem is discussed. Finally, the chapter finishes by profoundly examining two major approaches for the problem of where to locate warehouses: the single-flow and multiflow hierarchical location models The major activity in a warehouse is material handling to store goods for a limited period. The concept of a warehouse is somewhat paradoxical in contemporary production systems. Reduction of inventories and more generally elimination of operations that do not provide added value is always on the agenda in order to lower production costs. On the other hand, the use of a warehouse is inevitable for the several reasons given in Section 11.2.2. As a consequence, the management of warehouses requires a lot of attention: this aspect will be developed in Section 11.4 after reviewing the basic operations and listing the possible mistakes that may arise when performing these operations Some aspects of the design of warehouses, and in particular their sizing, are proposed in Section 11.5 Finally, Section 11.6 is ded