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

Efficiency improvement in manual warehouses through ERP systems implementation and redesign of... 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. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Logistics Information Management Emerald Publishing

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

Antonio Rizzi; Roberto Zamboni
Logistics Information Management , Volume 12 (5): 11 – Oct 1, 1999
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Emerald Publishing
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Copyright © 1999 MCB UP Ltd. All rights reserved.
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0957-6053
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10.1108/09576059910295805
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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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Logistics Information Management – Emerald Publishing

Published: Oct 1, 1999

Keywords: Channel management; Information systems; Logistics; Warehousing

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