Preface ....................................................... vii
Editor ......................................................... xi
Contributors ................................................. xiii
1 Facility Logistics: Forces of Change ......................... 1
Mike Ogle
2 Warehouse Management Systems and Product Flow: Reconciling
the Two ..................................................... 17
James K. Higginson and James H. Bookbinder
3 Warehouse Assessment in a Single Tour ....................... 39
M.B.M. De Koster
4 Simultaneous Facility Layout and Materials-Handling System
Design ...................................................... 61
Omar Al-Araidah, Ananth Krishnamurthy, and Charles
J. Malmborg
5 Impact of Cross Aisles in a Rectangular Warehouse:
A Computational Study ....................................... 97
Gürdal Ertek, Bilge Incel, and Mehmet Can Arslan
6 Stochastic Models for Facilities Logistics ................. 127
Sunderesh S. Heragu, Gang Meng, and Henk Zijm
7 Staging Protocols for Unit-Load Crossdocking ............... 153
John J. Bartholdi, III, Kevin R. Gue, and Keebom Kang
8 Performance Analysis of Unit-Load Automated Storage
Retrieval Systems .......................................... 173
Yavuz A. Bozer
9 Carousel Storage Systems ................................... 199
Elkafi Hassini
10 Algebraic Deadlock Avoidance Policies for Sequential
Resource Allocation Systems ................................ 235
Spyros Reveliotis
11 Teaching Warehousing Concepts through Interactive
Animations and 3-D Models .................................. 291
Gürdal Ertek
Index ......................................................... 313
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