Executive Summaries: SEARCH PLAN FOR A SINGLE ITEM IN AN INVERTED T K-DEEP STORAGE SYSTEM

摘要

This work is motivated by sea basing, which will utilize floating distribution centers to provide customized orders to forces ashore. A unique feature of sea-based logistics (in comparison to traditional logistics) is the limited and highly constrained storage space. In addition, asset tracking technologies, like RFID, do not identify item locations to the granularity required for selective offloading in very high density environments aboard ships. Thus, this work analyzes search plans in very high density storage and finds that the search process in dense storage systems have high variability. A repositioning policy that uses the open aisle locations as temporary storage locations is recommended.