Storage Systems, Policies, and Storage Location Assignment
Module 03 · Week 38 · Configure
Storage Systems, Policies, and Storage Location Assignment
Translate item velocity and handling effort into defensible storage-policy and slotting decisions.
Decision levelTactical storage configuration
Core modelStorage-location assignment problem
Which product should occupy which location when travel, space, and demand all matter?
This module moves from choosing storage systems to configuring how inventory uses them. You will compare dedicated and shared policies, connect product velocity to handling effort, and formulate slotting as an explicit assignment decision that can be revisited when demand changes.
By the end of this module, you can
- compare storage-system and storage-policy alternatives;
- explain dedicated, randomized, class-based, and closest-open-location logic;
- formulate a storage-location assignment problem;
- connect product velocity, travel distance, and handling cost; and
- assess how demand change affects an existing slotting plan.
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Theses on storage-location assignment
Review applied thesis cases that show how the storage-location assignment problem changes across manual, automated, dynamic, and warehouse-reassignment settings.