Warehouse Planning for Maximum Area Efficiency in the White Goods Sector

Abstract

In today’s intense competitive environment, businesses focus on improving their systems. Warehouse management is one of the most important areas of supply chain management. The placement of storage areas; directly affects the processes such as receiving, picking and shipment and therefore plays an important role in the elimination of idle areas. In this study, it is aimed to develop a model that maximizes the storage area utilization efficiency for 3 different product groups of an enterprise operating in the white goods sector. The model is solved by using goal programming.