Relocation of items in a warehousing system is usually used when the handling machines become the bottleneck. This paper addresses the optimization problem of relocation in a warehouse with dynamic operating policy. An integer linear programming formulation is proposed. A two-stage heuristic...

Because of international competition, the development of new technologies and the increase of production and energy costs, enterprises must improve their supply chains and change their ways of doing business. They also have to collaborate with their suppliers, distributors and retailers in order...