Cost and Throughput Modeling of Manual and Automated Order Fulfillment Systems

The e-commerce revolution has brought about the need for more efficient order fulfillment. Guidelines are needed to determine the order fulfillment system design, and whether a manual or automated system should be implemented. A spreadsheet-based descriptive model has been developed based on demand...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Russell, Mardi L.
Other Authors: Industrial and Systems Engineering
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32476
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05102001-152939/