Steel logistics park layout based on market basket analysis and accessibility

Abstract

In this study, we used market basket analysis and land accessibility for the layout of MG Steel Logistics Park. Due to the unreasonable cargo space layout, the outbound trucks in the MG Steel Logistics Park detour and transfer, which caused congestion. Using market basket analysis, this research took outbound trucks as the research object to measure the degree of correlation between cargo locations. Then, we measured the convenience of cargo locations by the accessibility and matched it with the steel outbound frequency. We established a model and got the layout allocation plan with the maximum degree of relevance and the minimum difference in cargo-location matching as the target. In the solution algorithm, we use roulette method and the elite retention strategy to improve the genetic algorithm. Finally, we compared the results before and after optimization. We found that the number of truck transfers was reduced by 33%, and the truck staying time was reduced by 21%.