Performance Analysis and Capacity Planning of Multi-stage Stochastic Order Fulfilment Systems with Levelled Order Release and Order Deadlines

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: KIT Scientific Publishing 2022
• Series: Wissenschaftliche Berichte des Instituts für Fördertechnik und Logistiksysteme des Karlsruher Instituts für Technologie
• Subjects: Mechanical engineering & materials; Order fulfilment; Glättung; Kapazitätsplanung; Markov-Kette; ableitungsfreie Optimierung; order fulfilment; workload balancing; capacity planning; Markov chain; derivative-free optimisation
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (284 p.)
• ISBN: 9783731512110; KSP/1000148098
• Access: Open Access

Order fulfilment systems are forced to manage a volatile customer demand while meeting customer-required short order deadlines. To handle these challenges, we introduce the Strategy of Levelled Order Release (LOR) for workload balancing over time. The contributions of this work are (1) the workload balancing concept LOR, (2) a discrete-time Markov chain for performance analysis, and (3) an algorithm for capacity planning under performance constraints in order fulfilment systems with LOR.