Impact of inventory storage and retrieval schemes on productivity
Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; in conjunction with the Leaders for Manufacturing Program at MIT, 2005.
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| author | Lieu, Charlene A. (Charlene Ann) |
| author2 | Alvin W. Drake and Charles H. Fine. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/348472022-01-28T21:04:18Z Impact of inventory storage and retrieval schemes on productivity Lieu, Charlene A. (Charlene Ann) Alvin W. Drake and Charles H. Fine. Leaders for Manufacturing Program. Leaders for Manufacturing Program at MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Sloan School of Management Sloan School of Management. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Leaders for Manufacturing Program. Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; in conjunction with the Leaders for Manufacturing Program at MIT, 2005. Includes bibliographical references. The operational management of high volume, multi-line distribution warehouses is a monumental undertaking, which only a handful of companies in the world have chosen to tackle. Amazon.com is amongst the few, and has further differentiated itself because of its direct to customer method of distribution and complex order mixes. There is no other retailer that carries and directly delivers as many different products (over 4 million different unique items) in as wide range of product categories (from music to cosmetics to electronics to garden hoses) in as high of volume as Amazon.com. The nature of Amazon's retail model and its organic growth over the past decade has made its fulfillment centers a complex beast to decipher. Decisions on the fulfillment center floor are composed of intricate balances between demand constraints, equipment bottlenecks, storage limitations and labor costs, making the true cost associated with each variable dependent on every other variable. The goal of this thesis is to document a practical exploration of inventory storage and retrieval schemes and its relationships to productivity (and subsequently cost), as well as identify implementable changes that yields higher throughput, lower lead time for order fulfillment, and ultimately dollar savings. Of particular interest are operationally transparent process changes, which improve processes in a manner that minimize impact on the fulfillment center floor. This concept will be the central theme of all recommendations resulting from this thesis. by Charlene (Charlie) A. Lieu. S.M. M.B.A. 2006-11-08T16:48:35Z 2006-11-08T16:48:35Z 2005 2005 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34847 63199568 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 55 leaves 3372060 bytes 3374274 bytes application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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| title_short | Impact of inventory storage and retrieval schemes on productivity |
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| topic | Sloan School of Management. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Leaders for Manufacturing Program. |
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