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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