Optimization of Warehouse Activities in Supply Chain

Student: Balasanian Karina

Faculty: St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management

Educational Programme: Strategic Management in Logistics (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2021

This work is devoted to the analysis of theoretical issues of the implementation of warehouse activities. The first chapter examines in detail the role and importance of warehouses in logistics, describes the logistics and warehouse infrastructure. In addition, this chapter provides a broad analysis of warehouse network design methods. In the main part of the work, the analysis of the most popular methods of warehouse optimization was carried out, and innovative tools for optimizing warehouse activities as well, which appeared relatively recently on the logistics services market, were considered. In the final chapter, the plan of optimizing a specific warehouse facility was proposed, considering all warehouse's problems. Also, alternative ways of solving these problems were analysed with detailed calculation and analysis of the implementation potential costs and the approximate time of return on investment.

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