Simulation Modeling of Dual Warehouse Configuration: a Case Study in a Textile and Apparel Company

• Main Authors: Cynthia Candradewi, 蔡幸真
• Other Authors: Kung-Jeng Wang
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/mfk3hp

碩士 === 國立臺灣科技大學 === 工業管理系 === 105 === Warehouse space allocation is a critical issue to be addressed in many firms, especially firms that have various types of products. Further, most of the owned warehouse has limited capacity which lead to the usage of outsource policy for warehouse storage. In this case, rented warehouse that has more flexibility in terms of capacity is used to store the products. Therefore, an optimal decision of warehouse configuration is required. Lin & Wang (2017) proposed a two-stage stochastic optimization model for warehouse configuration and inventory policy for deteriorating items. Unfortunately, direct implementation of their proposed method in real case problem is not possible to be conducted, as it will incur high cost and takes up a lot of time. In this research, a simulation model is developed to analyze the implementation of the proposed method in real case problem. A textile and apparel company is used as the study case. The result shows that simulation model can give more detailed analysis, such as the usage of the resources for material handling. The net profit when facing different demand possibility can also be captured using simulation model. Thus, result that is closer to the real case problem can be obtained.