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Efficiency improvement in manual warehouses through ERP systems implementation and redesign of the logistics processes

Antonio Rizzi (Antonio Rizzi Lecturers in the Department of Industrial Engineering, Parma University, Parma, Italy.)
Roberto Zamboni (Roberto Zamboni Lecturers in the Department of Industrial Engineering, Parma University, Parma, Italy.)

Logistics Information Management

ISSN: 0957-6053

Article publication date: 1 October 1999

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Abstract

Deals with the issues related to the implementation, in a manual finished goods warehouse, of an ERP information system aimed at improving warehouse internal logistics efficiency. Specifically it is observed that the mere implementation of an integrated warehouse management information system does not actually guarantee the optimization of warehouse logistics. Rather, to improve the overall systems efficiency, it is required that ERP implementation be combined with the redesign and the reorganization of warehouse logistics and processes. This means that to achieve an effective synergic effect and thus effectively increase systems efficiency, both these steps have to be undertaken concurrently, grounding the reorganization and redesign phase on the implementation fallouts )in first place higher traceability levels gained(. The whole project is then applied to a real case of a finished goods manual warehouse, with pile storage systems.

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Rizzi, A. and Zamboni, R. (1999), "Efficiency improvement in manual warehouses through ERP systems implementation and redesign of the logistics processes", Logistics Information Management, Vol. 12 No. 5, pp. 367-377. https://doi.org/10.1108/09576059910295805

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