TY - GEN
T1 - The role of distributed intelligence in warehouse management systems
AU - Lu, Wenrong
AU - Giannikas, Vaggelis
AU - McFarlane, Duncan
AU - Hyde, James
PY - 2014/1/1
Y1 - 2014/1/1
N2 - Third-party-logistics warehouses have been gaining popularity in recent years mainly due to their ability to buffer the material flow along a supply chain and consolidate the products from various suppliers, which has a major impact on supply chain efficiency. The issues and challenges in warehouse management are similar in many ways to those faced in manufacturing control, resilience and adaptability being two such issues. Since distributed intelligence (DI) approaches have been extensively studied to address such issues in manufacturing control, this paper examines the possible adoption of DI approaches in warehouse management systems (WMS). Further, the paper discusses the challenges in warehouse management and compares these challenges with the characteristics of manufacturing problems that DI approach is suited to.
AB - Third-party-logistics warehouses have been gaining popularity in recent years mainly due to their ability to buffer the material flow along a supply chain and consolidate the products from various suppliers, which has a major impact on supply chain efficiency. The issues and challenges in warehouse management are similar in many ways to those faced in manufacturing control, resilience and adaptability being two such issues. Since distributed intelligence (DI) approaches have been extensively studied to address such issues in manufacturing control, this paper examines the possible adoption of DI approaches in warehouse management systems (WMS). Further, the paper discusses the challenges in warehouse management and compares these challenges with the characteristics of manufacturing problems that DI approach is suited to.
KW - Distributed intelligence
KW - Orderpicking scheduling
KW - Warehouse management systems
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84958530221&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-04735-5_5
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-04735-5_5
M3 - Chapter in a published conference proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:84958530221
SN - 9783319047348
T3 - Studies in Computational Intelligence
SP - 63
EP - 77
BT - Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing and Robotics
PB - Springer Verlag
ER -