Each day, companies and organizations are facing new challenges. The customer
requirements are increasing and global competition is leading to important changes in the …

Purpose Recent literature recognizes the role of warehouses in enhancing the overall
logistics performance. Thus, lean thinking has recently found its way in supporting …

This study is motivated by a real-world problem in a food company, where production
planning is restricted by the available warehouse space for the finished goods. A novel …

This study aims at develo** an improvement framework of warehouse processes by
improving process cycle efficiency using lean six sigma (DMAIC) approach. A case study …

Companies' productivity is critical in contemporary warehouse environment to maintain
efficiency and competitiveness within their supply chain. Warehousing operations are well …

In this study, the problem of high levels of returns of orders to be dispatched, affecting
distribution companies of the mass consumption sector, was analyzed. For this reason, the …

Given the increasingly significant impact of an efficient product-location strategy on
warehouses' performance from a service level and operational costs perspective, this paper …

This paper describes the structure of the logistic maturity model (LMM) in detail and shows
the possible improvements that can be achieved by using this model in terms of the …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore why and how firms with logistics-intensive
operations such as fast-moving consumer good (FMCG) distributors benefit from residing in …

A communicating object, or connected object, is a key element of the Internet of Things to
shift a perceptible real world into a wide digital virtual world known as the cyber-physical …