5.1.2 Operation strategy
Most of the publications consider unit-load warehouses,
while planning for operational policy of less than unit-load
warehouses is rare. As the business environment is rapidly
changing, developing robust strategies can be very helpful
for warehouse managers to assure a certain level of performance at uncertainty. It would be a great contribution to
design scenarios for operation policies when data are
scarce (which is usually the case in practice). Overall, there
is a considerable number of publications, but in detailed
subcategories, many managerial concerns are missing.
Warehousing operations need to be planned so as to reduce
discrepancies and provide the opportunity to track them.
Many warehouses are trying to keep track of their operations and the employees responsible for each activity. But
when the period of reporting these discrepancies is long,
they cannot easily be confirmed and tracked back to find
the root cause of the problem. Improvement of processes
and information systems can facilitate the possibility of
tracking back and confirming such errors. Finally,