Scattered Storage: How to Distribute Stock Keeping Units All Around a Mixed-Shelves Warehouse

Scattered storage is a storage assignment strategy where single items are isolated and distributed all around the shelves of a warehouse. This way, the probability of always having some items per s...

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Transportation Science

• Publication date

  2018-10-09

• Fields of study

  Business, Engineering, Computer Science

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  DOI 10.1287/TRSC.2017.0779
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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