However, little work is available to show the benefits of integrating inventory control
with warehouse management and to propose effective approaches for integrated
decision making at both strategic and day-by-day levels. To answer this deficiency and
contribute to the state-of-the-art, we propose the use of SD as a structural methodology
for operations management and, in particular, to support warehouse decision making
based on detailed modelling of the interrelated factors affecting the warehouse
operations performance and inventory management of a DC.