The increase in the number of high-profile product recalls in recent years highlights the issue of ensuring product safety in global supply chains. Although the financial effect of a product recall announcement has been previously investigated from the perspective of manufacturers, it has not...

The retrieval of items from storage is a chore faced by virtually every business concern. Walk/ride and pick systems are a popular method for performing this chore in many applications. When retrieval requests consist of multiple items, order pickers must travel to numerous storage locations to...

This note provides a brief comparison between a three-dimensional layout planning system recently described in Management Science (Johnson [Johnson, Roger V. 1982. SPACECRAFT for multi-floor layout planning. Management Sci. 28 (4, April) 407--417.]) and a similar system developed earlier (Cinar...

This paper describes a new system capable of solving detailed facility layout problems. The system allows the consideration of multiple objectives on the layout solution. Criteria related to weighted distance between interacting layout elements, the structure of the final layout design, the use...