Track: Supply Chain

Abstract

The research conducted in this study is aimed at enhancing warehouse performance in picking by sequence optimization, as the travel time covers most storage collection processes, the right order of picking lines in a batch is critical to attaining high productivity. For research conducted at the manufacturer in the business segment of electronic devices, the quantitative assessment showed an overall improvement potential of 7.4 %, but in contrast to the systematic routing inquiry, the sequences generated by the LSO may seem illogical to the picker-a qualitative assessment must be considered to identify sequence patterns and discuss the methodology. Consequently, the measurements of warehouse performance have become a buzz word amongst scholars and industry practitioners. Despite the fact that the concept of warehouse performance is attending higher level of significance in western countries, America, Asia, due to its ability to smooth the business environment, in Africa, particularly in South Africa the integration and adoption of warehouse performance concept are facing several challenges. To date, over the past decade, a number of research have been done in the past decades to address these issues of warehouse performance in the manufacturing sector and there is still gab in the current literature review, therefore the objective of this research is to review and assess storage performance in the manufacturing industry. The results of the critical analysis of the current literature clearly show that there are flaws in the current body language related to storage performance. However very few studies were carried out from warehouse performance in South Africa, the overall of this study is to fill this gap by means of critically analyzing studies that were developed or conducted in the field of warehousing.   

Keywords 

Storage, Research, Performance