Warehouse and inventory management in decentralized systems

Michael Mirlach; Trung Le Thanh; Matthias Jung; Thomas Atz; Willibald A. Günthner

doi:10.2195/lj_NotRev_mirlach_de_201302_01

Warehouse and inventory management in decentralized systems

Translated title of the contribution: Warehouse and inventory management in decentralized systems

Michael Mirlach, Trung Le Thanh, Matthias Jung, Thomas Atz, Willibald A. Günthner

Chair of Chair of Materials Handling, Material Flow, Logistics

Technical University of Munich

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Abstract

A company's inventory management must comply with strong standards concerning data availability, security and consistency. All this can be achieved today with centralized data keeping in a Warehouse Management System. Contrariwise, in other areas (e. g. material flow, transport and production control) a trend towards distributed control strategies can be observed, which promise a greater flexibility and reduced complexity. In a project that was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) we present and discuss in this contribution concepts for a decentralized design of inventory management systems.

Translated title of the contribution	Warehouse and inventory management in decentralized systems
Original language	English
Journal	Logistics Journal
Volume	2014
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2195/lj_NotRev_mirlach_de_201302_01
State	Published - 2014

Keywords

Distributed systems
Inventory control
RFID
Warehouse management
Wireless sensor network

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