This article is based on a master thesis that employes Theory of Constraint to a warehouse operational.
The foundation of the thesis is to understand why warehouses still encounter problems with their
operational work, even though warehouse operational is a well explored field with numerous of theory
providing strategies and solutions to improve warehouses at a operational level. Warehouse managers need
a philosophy and/or tool to evaluate and select which solutions and strategies to implement to the their
warehouses. This is where Theory of Constraints becomes valuable since it is a management philosophy for
improvements work. To investigate if warehouse managers could benefit from Theory of Consatraint a case
study was performed and evaluated at Harald Pihl AB, where the goal was to improve their warehouse
operation