Describes the successful implementation by a major airline′s catering division of a comprehensive, computer‐controlled logistics system comprising two separate, fully automated warehousing and ordering systems, making order error a rarity and enabling three‐shift operation which has significantly increased profitability.
The need to design materials handling systems optimally has grown as the cost of material handling equipment has continued to increase. For some facilities, this need is critical due to product obsolescence and quality. Simulation modelling based and factorial experimental design are used to help accentuate some of the decision options regarding the optimum number of carts, the optimum schedu…