Close Help Print Course module: 191820120 191820120 Warehousing Course info Schedule Course module 191820120 Credits (ECTS) 5 Course type Course Language of instruction English Contact person dr. B. Alves Beirigo E-mail b.alvesbeirigo@utwente.nl Lecturer(s) Examiner dr. B. Alves Beirigo Contactperson for the course dr. B. Alves Beirigo Lecturer dr. D. Demirtas Lecturer dr. L. Xie Academic year 2022 Starting block 2B Application procedure You apply via OSIRIS Student Registration using OSIRIS Yes Aims This course aims to introduce the fundamental concepts and techniques for designing, managing, and operating contemporary warehouses. After successful completion of the course, the student is able to:   Explain the role of warehousing in supply chains and identify warehouse types, functions, and operations. Discuss major planning, design, management, and control decisions in contemporary warehouses. Discuss storage and material handling objectives, principles, and technology. Discuss emerging warehousing challenges, trends, and innovations. Implement quantitative methods to optimize distribution networks and warehouses’ design, management, and operations. Analyze relevant data and evaluate performance metrics to support decision-making in a warehousing environment. Synthesize and critically evaluate relevant warehousing research and literature to inform best practices Content   Introduction: The role of warehouses in supply chains; warehouse functions, classifications, and types; warehouse management systems; warehousing strategic, tactical, and operational planning decisions. Distribution network design: Distribution trade-offs (ownership vs. outsourcing, centralized vs. decentralized, number of facilities); facility location (median-based/covering-based model formulations, heuristic solutions). Warehouse performance evaluation: Costs and trade-offs; performance metrics; activity profiling. Warehouse design: Space requirement planning; facility layout problem; material handling equipment; aisle width and lane depth optimization. Warehouse operation: receiving, put-away, cross-docking; storage: Inventory management, fast-pick area design (fluid model), slotting, storage, cube-per-order index (COI); order-picking: order-picking systems (RMFS, AS/RS), order picking-schemes (batch, zone, wave picking); routing (TSP, Chebyshev distance metric, Ratliff & Rosenthal algorithm, Hall algorithm); replenishment, shipping, and support processes (inventory counting, value-adding services, reverse logistics). Warehouse challenges, trends, and innovations: External change drivers; the warehouse of the future (robotized and automated warehouses, physical internet). Assessment   Exam (50%) Quizzes* (15%) Group assignments (20%) Individual assignments (15%) *There are four in-class quizzes in this course. Attendance to at least three of them is required.   Assumed previous knowledge • Elementary computer programming: If-then-else statements, for/while loops, local/global variables, functions, and procedures • Operations research techniques: mathematical programming/model formulation and optimization heuristics. Participating study Master Mechanical Engineering Participating study Master Industrial Engineering and Management Required materials - Recommended materials Book John J. Bartholdi, & Steven T. Hackman. (2019). Warehouse & Distribution Science. (http://www.warehouse-science.com/). Book Frazelle, E. (2016). World-class warehousing and material handling (Second Edition). McGraw-Hill Education Book Richards, G. (2021). Warehouse management: The definitive guide to improving efficiency and minimizing costs in the modern warehouse (Fourth edition). Kogan Page Book Heragu, S. S. (2022). Facilities design (Fifth edition). CRC Press. Instructional modes Lecture Remark Attendance is mandatory only at guest lectures Practical Tests Exam and assignments Close Help Print