Avaliação de desempenho de diferentes designações de armazenamento baseado em classes em um armazém

Abstract

In a globalized market, the dispute between organizations has become even more competitive. In addition, customer's expectations and behaviors have changed. The customers require more frequent and faster shipments at a low cost. The shipping batches were smaller and with more variety of products. In this context, logistics is no longer seen as a support activity, but as a crucial element to obtain competitive advantages. However, this work in logistics area is focused on storage management, especially in increasing the efficiency of the order picking activity. This activity is essential for storage, but requires much time and labor. The aim of this study was to analyze the level of influence of a arrangement, which considers the capacity of the equipment over the total distance traveled. The scenarios were formed through the application of four different methods of storage location assignment. These methods consist of an ABC Curve using monthly demand and procedures based on mass criteria or combinations of demand and mass to classify and allocate the different product types. After the simulation and analysis of order picking activity in each of the scenarios, it was concluded that for the proposed conditions, the procedures which use the mass criteria of the products in the first classification tend to be more efficient. The procedure that grouped the products using the mass criteria and after classified the products of each category using the demand criteria results in the shortest sum distance traveled. The sum of scenarios’ distance of this procedure was 8462 d.u.