Abstract:
Warehouse operations play a key role in
manufacturing organizations, providing support to run
production processes smoothly. As a part of warehouse
operations in a supply chain, loading problems are a point that
allows optimization to be carried out with significant cost
implications and a considerable impact on the rest of the supply
chain in manufacturing organizations. The paper proposes a
simple and effective linear programming model to optimally use
warehouse storage space by efficient palletizing. The quantity of
total pallets required per day is derived based on the available
demand per day and other constraints related to warehousing
operations in a multi-product manufacturing context.
Requiring moderate computational efforts and time, generates
optimal solutions of almost all examples analyzed, using the
Microsoft Excel add-in, Solver and the Solver Engine - Simplex
Linear Programming, which were used to implement the model.
For scenarios considered, and a sample scenario demonstrated
in the paper, the model generated feasible solutions, all
constraints are satisfied.
