Literature Review
Concept of Automated System
According to Gagliardi et al. (2014), an automated system for managing the inventories and material management processes are helpful in removing use of fully conventional vertical storage and retrieval machines within any organization. Inventories generally requests to the place the palletised materials into storage at a specified location selected for that purpose. In addition to this, the automated system architecture offers effective and innovative palletized materials to be shifted through an equivalent mobile platform. These mobile platforms are helpful in meeting the requests raise through the demands of users and clients of any organization. A warehouse with automated system architecture within it involves various tricks and effective schemas that are helpful in storing palletized materials and these materials can be easily supplied to the resources that are entirely dependent on these warehouses. In contrast with these facts, automated warehousing process drive the business process to planned speed limits and easily manages the loads accordingly user demands.
Benefits of Automated systems in Warehouse
According to Davarzani et al. (2015), the main reason behind making the warehousing system architecture automated is to reduce the expenditure and time consumptions involved within the storage management as well as in case of inventory management processes involved within the business processes. The concept of automated warehousing provides benefits to the technical operations involved within material delivery as well as inventory control measures for organizations. In accordance with the demands and needs of business organizations, it is found that the warehousing process is becoming one interesting and demanding aspect to be monitored by famous businesspersons to make their business transactions and inventory management schemes better and improvised with respect to the demands of the competitive target markets.
Techniques implemented in Automated Warehousing system
Sensor based warehousing concepts are another improvisation of technology that has made the automated warehousing process more interesting and innovative with respect to manual inventory management and storage management process involved within various business processes (Lerher, Edl and Rosi 2014). In contrast to these facts, various sensors are there that may prove to be useful for managing automotive options and schedules. It will help in solving various perspectives of warehousing process. At present, the warehousing process is dependent on the management process of various third parties and inventory decision-makings. However, the contemporary situation about the warehousing approaches and inventory as well storage management is entirely automated based on the sensor based service providences.
References
Davarzani, H. and Norrman, A., 2015. Toward a relevant agenda for warehousing research: literature review and practitioners’ input. Logistics Research, 8(1), pp.1-18.
Gagliardi, J.P., Renaud, J. and Ruiz, A., 2014. A simulation modeling framework for multiple-aisle automated storage and retrieval systems. Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 25(1), pp.193-207.
Lerher, T., Edl, M., and Rosi, B., 2014. Energy efficiency model for the mini-load automated storage and retrieval systems. The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 70(1-4), 97-115.
