To begin the design of the warehousing system, the decision maker sets the total warehousing holding capacity. Given a dataset on the historical demand or inventory, the user must guarantee the overall level of the stock and properly organise the available space.
The leverage handled through the proposed DSS for the configuration of the layout are the shape factor, the unit load sizes, the unit load location, the base module sizes, the aisle width and number, and the rack types, as illustrated in Fig. 5.