2019 Volume 70 Issue 2 Pages 81-93
In logistics warehouse work, stock placement that enables high productivity when shipping is required. In this research, we develop technology to recommend storage location. At the warehouse site, there is a problem that products to be stored are not known until just before being inventoried and placed in the warehouse because they are stowed on pallets in the order of arrival after inspection and distribution processes have finished. Therefore, we developed a storage location recommendation technology that sequentially issues storage location recommendations for invididual pallets holding the items to be stored. In the technology, items that are stored for a short period of time and shipped frequently are evaluated using past inventory data and shipping records, and preferentially recommended to be stored in an area where shipping work efficiency is high, based on a relative comparison of shipping frequency and the stock storage period between the storing pallet and the stock pallets in reserve area. As a result, even in situations where products targeted for storage are not known until just before storage, it is possible to locate the stock that enables product shipment to be highly productive. A demonstration experiment was carried out at a cosmetics warehouse and the effect of reducing shipment man-hours by about 3.8% was confirmed.
