Background: Unit-load (UL) warehouses are among the most diffuse solutions to store items stocked in pallets, while class-based storage (CBS) assignment is an effective strategy balancing the storage space need and the UL traceability. This paper proposes a design strategy to reduce the access time for UL-CBS systems based on the inclusion of one additional diagonal aisle crossing the racks and the parallel aisles accessing the storage bays. Methods: The introduced design strategy is based on the analytic models to compute the access time for one diagonal-cross aisle warehouses with 2- and 3-CBS system. The minimization of the closed form expressions getting the average time to reach the storage bays allow reducing the travelled paths to store and retrieve (S&R) the ULs. Results: Comparison of the average time to S&R the ULs between traditional warehouses and the proposed configuration highlights the positive impact of the diagonal cross-aisle inclusion. In addition, a case example for a company operating within the food sector shows performance increase of about 33% respect to the correspondent traditional warehouse configuration. Conclusion: The interest in non-traditional warehousing systems rises because of the savings in the time to S&R the ULs. Analytic and even more general models to compute such savings are of help to best design the storage area increasing the inbound handling performances.

Riccardo, A., Marco, B., Emilio, F., Mauro, G., Francesco, P. (2018). Class-based storage warehouse design with diagonal cross-aisle. LOGFORUM, 14(1), 101-112 [10.17270/J.LOG.2018.254].

Class-based storage warehouse design with diagonal cross-aisle

Riccardo Accorsi;Marco Bortolini
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Emilio Ferrari;Mauro Gamberi;Francesco Pilati
2018

Abstract

Background: Unit-load (UL) warehouses are among the most diffuse solutions to store items stocked in pallets, while class-based storage (CBS) assignment is an effective strategy balancing the storage space need and the UL traceability. This paper proposes a design strategy to reduce the access time for UL-CBS systems based on the inclusion of one additional diagonal aisle crossing the racks and the parallel aisles accessing the storage bays. Methods: The introduced design strategy is based on the analytic models to compute the access time for one diagonal-cross aisle warehouses with 2- and 3-CBS system. The minimization of the closed form expressions getting the average time to reach the storage bays allow reducing the travelled paths to store and retrieve (S&R) the ULs. Results: Comparison of the average time to S&R the ULs between traditional warehouses and the proposed configuration highlights the positive impact of the diagonal cross-aisle inclusion. In addition, a case example for a company operating within the food sector shows performance increase of about 33% respect to the correspondent traditional warehouse configuration. Conclusion: The interest in non-traditional warehousing systems rises because of the savings in the time to S&R the ULs. Analytic and even more general models to compute such savings are of help to best design the storage area increasing the inbound handling performances.
2018
Riccardo, A., Marco, B., Emilio, F., Mauro, G., Francesco, P. (2018). Class-based storage warehouse design with diagonal cross-aisle. LOGFORUM, 14(1), 101-112 [10.17270/J.LOG.2018.254].
Riccardo, Accorsi; Marco, Bortolini; Emilio, Ferrari; Mauro, Gamberi; Francesco, Pilati
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