Purpose The purpose of the study is to examine enterprise searching practices across different work areas and work tasks in an enterprise search system in an international biotechnology company. Design/methodology/approach A mixed-method approach studying employees' authentic search activities...

This paper deals with a new strategy for the assignment of Stock Keeping Units (SKUs) to storage locations in a warehouse, called Order Oriented Slotting (OOS). Given an empty warehouse, a set of orders to be picked and a routing policy, OOS stores the SKUs in such a way that the total time...

This paper deals with a new strategy for the assignment of Stock Keeping Units (SKUs) to storage locations in a warehouse, called Order Oriented Slotting (OOS). Given an empty warehouse, a set of orders to be picked and a routing policy, OOS stores the SKUs in such a way that the total time...

When the Nelder-Mead method is used to optimize the expected response of a stochastic system (e.g., an output of a discrete-event simulation model), the simplex-resizing steps of the method introduce risks of inappropriate termination. We give analytical and empirical results describing the...